MOSCOW, May 9 (Xinhuanet) -- The grand parade marking the 60th anniversary of the victory of Russia's Great Patriotic War over Nazi Germany was underway in Moscow's Red Suqare on Monday.

    More than 50 world leaders, including Chinese President Hu Jintao, US President George W. Bush, joined Russian President Vladimir Putin and war veterans from all over the world near Lenin's tomb for a military parade.

    The Soviet Union fought 80 percent of the German Fascist forcesin the main anti-fascist war theater in Europe. The Soviet Union lost an estimated 27 million people during the Great Patriotic War. Enditem