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President Vladimir V. Putin spoke in the Red Square on Friday in the Red Square, Soviet visit to the Nazi Germany 80 years ago, which is used to emphasize Russia’s past and justify the war with Ukraine.
In the stands erected in front of Vladimir Lenin, the leaders of Mr. Putin, the leaders of Brazil and more than 20 other countries, the Kremlin made an effort to present the opposite of “Global Southern” countries against the West.
Thousands of soldiers and dozens of armored vehicles, tank and nuclear missile shooters followed a prospect. One regiment of Chinese soldiers marched in the Red Square in front of the Kremlin’s red walls.
Why is the parade important this year?
The parade is expected to be the largest since Russia’s full-scale occupation of Ukraine in 2022.
In late April, Mr. Putin announced a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine to celebrate the May 8 celebrations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected The proposal called him a “Theater Show” and offered a 30-day reconciliation that could allow the war to the end of the war. Mr. Zelensky also said that Ukraine will not provide security guarantees to the guests of the parade in Moscow.
In Russia, in the days leading to Ukraine Victory Day increased The parade is trying to hit Moscow and surrounding areas, which causes assumptions that it can be targeted. Russia also targeted Ukrainian cities, including Kiev in recent days.
“This is the sky of the Russian sky – the sky of the attacker – today is not quiet today,” Mr Zelensky said an address Wednesday.
What is the meaning of Russia?
The parade remembers the traditional annual vacation as a traditional expression of many Russian units in Russia. The Soviet Union lost more than 26 million lives during the war and touched almost every family.
However, after Russia’s occupation of Ukraine in 2022, the magnificent records around Russia became a division in Russia and beyond.
The Kremlin tried to justify the occupation, claiming that the government in Kiev was abducted by a group of Nazis. Mr. Zelensky, Jewish origin, and grandfather fought in the war and members of his family died in the Holocaust.
Historical prospising
Western countries have held their victory days in European celebrations, but on Thursday. The difference is caused by the difference between Moscow and Berlin. Saying the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, the middle of the night was past in Moscow.
The difference, former allies and celebrations to divide them into two different camps, became a symbolic. For example, since 2023, Ukraine has been celebrated on May 8 on May 8, a prey symbol of the Russian and the Soviet.
The importance of victory day for Putin
Mr Putin has a deep personal history of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. During World War II, his brother Victor, During World War II, died of a diphtheria in a pediatric siege of Leningrad, and buried in a mass grave. Mr Putin’s father was seriously injured and his mother almost died of starvation.
Mr Putin said that his parents did not hate against the Germans, but his offspring was different.
“Soviet books, movies,” Mr. Putin write. “And we hated.”
Victory Day Parades in Russia
The first victory parade was held shortly after Germany in 1945. May 9 state holiday was announced. Stalin, who managed the Soviet Union at that time, then ended the parades until he was brought back on a period of time in 1965.
After 1965, the victory over Nazism gradually took the foundation stone of the Soviet and Russian patriotic rituals. Again, the parades were organized only in a sporadic, and only after 2008, the military celebration became an annual spectacular showcase.
On Friday, the parade will also symbolize the Russian tournament in the last two decades. In 2005, many Western leaders, including President George W. Bush, took part in Bush, which expressed the Russian-US union during the war. But on Friday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping will be the main guest.
Violations in Moscow
Moscow came to stand in the days leading to the parade. Airports were repeatedly closed due to the attacks of Ukraine, which caused chaos. Breaks have more than 60,000 passengers affected, according to To the Union of Russian Travel Agencies.
In the city, the main avenues were closed to vehicles and pedestrian traffic. The cell connection is repeatedly violated, causes the services of the city, including taxi and supply. Many ventures were closed on Wednesday and the parade for spectacular exercises on Friday.
