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Russian victory day parade 2016
Russian victory day parade 2016







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“It is on May 8 that most nations of the world remember the greatness of the victory over the Nazis,” Zelensky said. In video remarks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada - Ukraine’s parliament to change official victory day celebrations from May 9 to May 8, and compared Russia’s aggression to that of Hitler’s Germany. Not surprisingly, Ukrainians are pushing back against such historical gaslighting. And in his speech, Putin cast them as the heirs of victory in the Great Patriotic War. Contributor/Getty ImagesĪccording to state media, over 500 participants of Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine took part in the parade on Red Square Tuesday. This year's parade was more a scaled-back event than usual. For a domestic audience, the Victory Day parade provides a visual parallel between the veterans of the war that ended 78 years ago and the participants of Russia’s war on Ukraine today. Collective remembrance of World War II is the closest thing Russia has to a state religion, and May 9 - when Russians commemorate the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 - marks the holiest of days. And that Russian-speaking Ukrainians - and even some Russian nationals - are also fighting and dying on the side of Ukraine.īut Putin is immune from fact-checking exercises here. Let’s remember that it was a genuine popular revolt - not, say, the CIA or George Soros - that brought people onto Kyiv’s Maidan Square to support Ukraine’s aspirations for joining the European Union, leading to the ouster of Ukraine’s pro-Russian president in 2014. And if a shadowy global cabal is pulling the strings in Kyiv, that belief justifies what Russia calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine. In his conspiratorial view of the world, states like Ukraine are merely vassals, and Washington calls the shots. It’s Putin’s longstanding view that Ukraine is not a legitimate nation - Ukrainians and Russians, in his view, are “one people” and the Ukrainian state is an artificial construct. It has become a pawn to their cruel and selfish plans.”ĭespite the pomp of the parade, Putin cuts an increasingly isolated figure. “The Ukrainian nation has become hostage to a coup which led to a criminal regime led by its Western masters. “Western globalist elites still talk about their exceptionalism, pitting people against each other and splitting society, provoking bloody conflicts and coups, sowing hatred, Russophobia, aggressive nationalism,” he said. While Russia sees “no unfriendly nations in the West or in the East,” Putin suggested darker forces are conspiring against Moscow. “Again, a true war has been unleashed against our motherland.” “Today, civilization again is at a breaking point,” Putin said. Flanked by surviving veterans of what Russia still calls the Great Patriotic War, the Russian president cast himself as savior and defender of an embattled Russia targeted by the “globalist elites” of the West. In a speech before the assembled troops, Putin drew a direct line between his invasion of Ukraine and the sacrifices of World War II.

russian victory day parade 2016

He succeeded only in underscoring his geopolitical isolation. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, this year’s Victory Day parade in Red Square was a chance to continue his war on history.









Russian victory day parade 2016