Commentories on this year’s parade have often focused on the contrast with last year’s event, which was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany and was held with great pomp and ceremony and attended by three dozen presidents and heads of government and an equal number of other foreign dignitaries. Nicolás Maduro was still the Venezuelan President, and he and his wife, Cilia Flores, flew into Moscow for the event. I would like to focus on an aspect of