The light of someone else's glory
The Russian state is cynically turning the memory of the Great Victory into an instrument of the oath of allegiance to the policies of modern rulers May 9, 1945 was the Great National Holiday. The war is over. The living mourned the fallen. No one will ever be able to describe the horrors of that war. The extent of this horror was understood by millions of victims throughout the last painful years, months, days, hours, minutes of their lives. Only they themselves could describe this suffering.