The last parade has come

Putin about nuclear war in the name of veterans sounded on Red Square

The military parade on May 9, 2024 will become the apogee of the new Russian militarism. The visual and rhetorical part of this event stood on a par with the films of Leni Rifenshtal. Under the snow in the center of Moscow there are columns of soldiers dressed in a stylized shape of the Second World War. Putin makes a question of an endless war, whose leader he proclaimed himself. The leaders of the states are observed from the stands, from Tajikistan to Cuba, whose screening is complete indifference to the fate of their own citizens. Spitz Lukashenko sits in the front row, as in a comedic American action movie about the doctor evil.

In Ukraine, the massacre continues, rockets fly around the cities. The Kremlin would no longer succeed in surpassing this symbolic menopause, except that it was not enough on the air from Red Square to give an order to launch Satan for targets on the territory of unconditional opponents. It was the last parade - it is already impossible to make it a more terrible symbol.

Putin makes a speech that is dedicated to veterans of the Second World War. Allegedly, for the sake of memory of these people, soldiers march in the square. Wanda Praedkova survived the Holocaust and the Nazi occupation of Ukraine and was killed in the basement of the destroyed Mariupol during the attack of the Russian army. She was 91 years old. The 96-year-old Boris Romanchenko survived in Buchenwald and was killed by a Russian shell in his apartment in Kharkov. The house of Ivan Lysun, who passed with battles to Germany, was destroyed by Russian troops, after which the veteran died, he was 97. This is how the Kremlin memory of veterans looks, which is reminiscent of “important stories” today.

Putin says that the war began in 1941 and that for three years, the Nazis opposed the USSR alone. He hopes that the world will forget about Molotov -Ribbentrop Pact, the barbaric section of Poland between Stalin and Hitler, the occupation of the Baltic countries and the invasion of Finland.

As in Soviet times, the events of 1939-1941 should be deleted from the official version of the war. But now this trick is used not just to impose Stalin. It is directly called by Putin the reason for revenge to Ukraine and other countries who do not want to accept his picture of the world. People in Ukraine are killed, because they did not believe in Putin’s right to create the past at their discretion. Those who do not believe in the non -Soviet myth of the war are waiting for death. The so -called "sucker" is declared by a direct continuation of the Second World War. The Russian Federation goes to war simply because it can repeat. As in popular novels about the “Pogatyans”, Putin simultaneously exists in 1942 and 2024, declaring everyone who does not believe in this, by the Nazis to be destroyed.

Putin’s eternal war continues, and his speech goes from the memory of veterans to the nuclear war.

“Our strategic forces are always in a state of combat readiness,” he says. Since the world cannot be what the dictator represents it, this world is subject to destruction.

The Second World War, that part of it, which concerned the country's defense from the Nazis, was truly popular. She touched every family, became grief and tragedy for everyone who survived her. The front -line soldiers did not like to remember their exploits and answered dryly that this should not be repeated anymore. Now, when there are almost no real veterans left, the dictatorship appropriated a popular memory and made a car out of it to destroy people. Having entered the battle with the Nazis, the USSR was on the right side of history, and now it has become a symbolic resource to justify new atrocities.

Putin refers to the historical tragedy of Russia of 1941-1945 as a palace in Gelendzhik: not only citizens, but also the past is declared by his property. Talking about the war is different than the dictator is to encounter criminal prosecution. To deny the mystical connection between World War II and current aggression against Ukraine means becoming an enemy. To insist that war is an absolute evil that should never be repeated is to attack the heart of darkness, thickened in the Kremlin on May 9.

At the 2010 parade, Ukrainian soldiers were going on in Moscow, many of whom are now protecting their homeland from the invasion of Russians. Only fourteen years ago, two countries had a common grief, which left hope for the future. It is clear to us, faced with a new war, destroyed cities and millions of refugees, that the future is only connected with the fact that this will no longer happen again. Our generation should not have witnesses and participants in the war, but Putin’s last parade is designed to take away hope of everyone.