Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. Although the official inauguration occurred in 1945, the holiday became a non-labor day only in 1965, and only in certain Soviet republics.
The German Instrument of Surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by Alfred Jodl (chief of staff of the German OKW) for Germany, Walter Bedell Smith, on behalf of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, and Ivan Susloparov, on behalf of the Soviet High Command, in the presence of French Major-General François Sevez as the official witness.
Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, and because Susloparov, a relatively low-ranking officer, was not authorized to sign this document, the Soviet Union requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin.
A second surrender ceremony was organized in a surviving manor in the outskirts of Berlin late on 8 May, when it was already 9 May in Moscow due to the difference in time zones.
During the Soviet Union's existence, 9 May was celebrated throughout it and in the Eastern Bloc. Though the holiday was introduced in many Soviet republics between 1946 and 1950, it became a non-working day only in the Ukrainian SSR in 1963 and the Russian SFSR in 1965
The celebration of Victory Day continued during subsequent years. The war became a topic of great importance in cinema, literature, history lessons at school, the mass media, and the arts. The ritual of the celebration gradually obtained a distinctive character with a number of similar elements: ceremonial meetings, speeches, lectures, receptions and fireworks.
Victory Day in modern Russia has become a celebration in which popular culture plays a central role. The 60th and 70th anniversaries of Victory Day in Russia (2005 and 2015) became the largest popular holidays since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Question for anyone using a phone with OxygenOS 14: Is there a way to force the screen to stay on with a tile app on-demand, like the classic Caffeine app? I've tried "Keep Screen On" from F-Droid (using various timeout values) and it's not working. There doesn't seem to be anything stock in the OS either. I don't really trust Play Store apps that do simple tasks like this because they're often malware vectors or harvesting private data.
I think I got something working. I'm also on OxygenOS 14, the "Keep Screen On" app worked for me ONLY if I was currently in the app, and only for a 30 minute timeout. This other app called Coffee [source code] is working for me. Screen is still on several minutes after the 15 second screen timeout.
Also, in case you can't find something on F-Droid, there's also the app Obtainium which can grab apks from github/gitlab code repositories directly in some cases.
edit: Seems that these two apps function differently. The "Keep Screen On" app is a front-end to rewrite the system sleep lock timer to something really high. The "Coffee" app registers a new PowerManager.WakeLock which tells the system that the device needs to stay on. Or if you choose Alternate mode in Coffee, it'll fall back to the way Keep Screen On works.
Thanks for the Coffee recommendation, I'll give it a try! F-Droid really needs a better search system.
And thanks for that technical link about PowerManager.Wakelock, it really explains it well.
Update, Coffee in that alternative mode worked great!