I personally don't like seeing large countries show off their military
I absolutely agree with you on that.

Moreover, watching all those military parade rehearsals on TV makes me feel sorry for our country, as the ostensible greatness they are trying to flaunt doesn't actually match the squalid and deplorable state the army is really in. Instead of committing to real achievements our government is too busy trying to impress the world with outward glamour and fake grandeur. We can see the same strategy with the preparations for 2014 winter Olimpics and some other projects.

As to the celebration, I think for most people, it's no more than an additional holiday that they will be spending on dachas trampling cow dung in their greenhouses and cucumber beds. Though in the central regions they've prpbably already done it.

Oh, by the way, one more virtue of the Victory Day is that there will be no commercials on TV on that day.