Children sit atop the World War II-era Soviet T-34 tank during Victory Day celebration in the Armenian capital Yerevan, on May 9, 2013. Armenia as well as the other former Soviet republics celebrates the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9, the date of the Nazis' capitulation to the Soviet Union, which took place in the evening on May 8, 1945 (May 9 by Moscow Time), following the original capitulation Germany agreed earlier to the joint Allied forces on the Western Front.  Photo: Karen Minasyan, AFP/Getty Images