Russians remember WW2 with victory in their mind

A park that sounds in eighty-miles from Moscow, a park that sounds in a park explosions and weapons.

Climb the air as thick as the smoky of the thick gray smoke, the red army storms are battles for control of a bridge and a small island. More Soviet soldiers come with a ship from a lake.

Once a swastiness falls on the island and replaces the Soviet Union with a hammer and sickle. Victory.

A large crowd follows the safety of the coast. What they witnessed is the historical re-application of one of the latest battles for Berlin in 1945. This caused the classification of the Nazi Germany and led Moscow to surrender as a great victory.

Battle for Berlin, Berlin in Dubna, is one of many events in Russia for two anniversaries of two events in Russia.

The anniversary of the national idea is very much in a country where the concept of Russia is very much as Victor and Sacrifice.

“My grandfather is fighting in this war,” one of the audience, Katya tells me.

“We were missing near Berlin. Then we knew that he was killed in January 1945.”

The eighty year of Katyan’s son is fighting in Ukraine.

“My son is in the war now. ‘The special military operation is’ in’.” “Optional. I tried to tell him. But he did not listen to anyone because he was a child.

‘I am my own tsar,’ he said. ‘The war, then if you are a tsar,’ he replied. He and his friend went together. His friend was killed. “

Katya’s family history is a story of different generations fighting on the front line.

But in very different condition.

In 1941, Hitler’s Germany tried to conquer the world’s largest country and maintain the security of the world. Soviet soldiers (the grandfather among them) struggled to release their countries from the Nazis. The victory for Moscow came to a great man: 27 million Soviet citizens were killed here as a great homeland or major Patriotic War.

However, in 2022, this was Russia created by a large-scale occupation of his neighbor. The Kremlin is still a “special military operation”, it was widely seen as an attempt to return Ukraine to Russia’s geo-political orbit. In March 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning the Russian “aggression” of Russia.

Again, the Russian government describes the war in Ukraine as a continuation of the two World War II. The official narrative here creates a parallel reality that Russia has once again competed in Nazism and fascism, Ukraine and Europe. The country occupying Ukraine presents itself as a victim of external aggression.

“Victory in a historic and sociological war, victory in the great patriotic war was always the cornerstone of the United Nations, because” Novaya Gazeta columnist Andrei Kolesnikov “, because so far, so far.

“But now what happens, something is special. Now the great patriot is presented as a first step in our permanent war ‘Eurofascism’. As a continuation of the Great Patriotic War, special military operation: This is a new thing.”

In Russia, television plays a key role in spreading an official message that Europe cannot trust and now. Recently, I saw a documentary “Europe against Europe against Europe.” It was about how European countries cooperate with the Nazis during World War II.

Between Hitler and Stalin, in 1939, not aware of the non-aggressionless pact: Germany and the USSR under the secret protocol, Germany and the USSR woke up in Eastern Europe.

Last month, a Russian television presenter launched a tyrant against Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who supports military support to Ukraine. The host of the discussion show called the Leader Nazi Scumbag for Russia’s comments on Russia. Appealed to the chancellor, the Russians said, “The Russians, who are responsible for the killing of 27 million Soviet citizens, said that the Russians hold you and his friends.”

Iconographic ideology is restrained. In Khimki, near Moscow, near Moscow, an open monument with a Russian soldier with a Russian soldier in Ukraine. The framed Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine were placed under the two warrior figures.

Reads to a book: “We defend the future by protecting the past!”

Past and present wars: came together in the bronze.

In the run until the victory, Russia is full of reminders of great victory. Last month, a decorated soy missile decorated to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi Germany exploded from Baikonur cosmodrome.

On the Earth, in the Maternity Hospital in Kemerovo in Siberia, newborns wear miniature red army caps and hats.

In the telegram canal, the hospital, babies, babies’ ties between the offspring, the courage of the villagers and the smallest Russian citizen were part of a large history.

The Russian word for “victory” in Moscow – ‘Pobeda’ – everywhere: in the giant plates, in the shop windows, even the road sweeps. Special “Victory Trains” in the Moscow metro is decorated with two images and words with World War II: “Be Proud!” And “Remember!”

Tanks, Moscow’s main street, TVerskaya, resers, rounds Tverskaya in rehearsals for May 9 Parade. During the Soviet era, the military parades were rare on victory after 1945. Under Vladimir Putin, Russia’s most sacred national holiday – not only to remember the victims of the World War, and Russia is a day to demonstrate the military power and unite people around the Russian idea as a delicate people.

The USSR, really, won the great patriot war. However, despite the confident announcements by eighty years and Russian officials, victory wins Moscow in Ukraine. The Kremlin was expected to last only a few days of “special military operation.” After the war for more than three years – great losses and giant losses on both sides – how and when the battles will end.

Kremlin, 29 world leaders, including China’s Xi Jinping, will take part in the Victory Day parade. According to Moscow, Serbian President Alexander Vucic and Slovakia Prime Minister Robert FICO will visit Russia for memories. It will no longer be a priority for the Kremlin to ensure security for guests in the military parade and red square. After two consecutive nights, the Ukraine targeted Moscow after Drone attacks.

Dubna’s returned, the German resistance was broken and the red army is completely controlled. Re-application is over.

Some of the audiences here believe that Russia is officially surrounded by the West.

“Both Britain and America betrayed us and threatened us,” said Lydia tells me. “But business. You can’t beat Russia.”

When a 98-year-old Fyodor talked to Melnikov, he does not enter politics. The military show caused painful memories for him. Fyodor’s brother was killed in the Great Patriotic War.

“War is a terrible thing,” said Fyodor tells me. “People should be allowed to live freely. Let them live, let them live their lives, naturally.”

Fyodor wrote a poem about the late brother, war. He reads it for me. Sounds like this in translation:

“The form I never wear,

A battle I have never seen.

But I see in the eyes of my mind

My brother goes to war.

The only thing I told me

It was the case before I went:

‘Live, little brother, be good.’

I will bring the victory house. “

On Friday, Fyodor Melnikov, along with Russia, will celebrate the 80th anniversary of his great victory in 1945.

But this will be a day to remember: friends and family that never returns.

One day to admit the value of war.