Montreal's Russian veterans: Diaspora members meet to remember WWII

Not all of them are in their 90s. David Ficherman, who was the commander of an armoured division in Riga when Germany capitulated, is 103.
This former captain is one of 43 veterans in the Montreal area of the Great Patriotic War, as Russians and many other former Soviet peoples refer to the conflict spoken of in English as the Second World War. Last year, there were 48.
Every year, those who are able gather at the downtown consulate of the Russian Federation the day before May 9 — the