Mark down May 9. That’s when the flag of Russia could fly proudly above Calgary City Hall.

It is the largest country on Earth, and millions of its citizens died defeating the Nazis — the significance of that date in May.

Or did all those Russians deserve to perish back then? After all, that infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact of August 1939 allowed Adolf Hitler free rein in Poland, France and beyond.

When the U.K. and its Commonwealth allies stood alone against Germany a year later, did Stalin shed a tear? Or did he dance a jig? Most likely the latter, though he’d change his tune 12 months later.

My wife, born and raised in Moscow, and I, born and raised in northeast England, debated this slice of history the other day. We concluded that flags of other nations have no place

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