People place 1418 candles (the number of days of the war) at the embankment of the Moscow River late on June 21, 2016, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. On June 22, Russia marked 75 years since the German Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa, an event that apparently caught Soviet leader Josef Stalin wholly unprepared and is still remembered by Moscow with deep unease. / AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV