Posted on 04/18/2023 11:45:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia's annual in-person commemoration of its country's World War II fighters is not going to take place this year, according to state authorities.
The nixing of the face-to-face "Immortal Regiment" march comes amid reports that the nation's major national event Victory Day event, which is scheduled to take place May 9 and celebrates the Soviet Union's role in defeating Nazi Germany, may be canceled or downsized in certain regions including Crimea, Kursk and Belgorod due to ongoing security concerns resulting from the war with Ukraine.
Russian State Duma Deputy Elena Tsunaeva, co-chairperson of the central headquarters of the "Immortal Regiment of Russia," told Russian state-owned media outlet Tass that remembrance events will still take place in other forms—including the posting of photos of relative military members on social media, on clothes, on cars and on websites dedicated to the regiment.
"A number of regions have already refused because of the threat, [in particular] the Republic of Crimea," Tsunaeva told Tass. "This is still a single indivisible story, the Immortal Regiment procession. If somewhere people do not have such an opportunity, let's use other options."
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Can’t have their parade because they fear a Ukrainian offensive? But Ukraine is losing according to our rezident Putin Puffing Fanboi Brigade!
It has always bothered me how Russia so quickly ignored and turned their back on all of our lend lease support, throughout the early years oyears of WW2 . Instead , they quickly turned into our mortal enemy , in Korea and thereafter. The OSS should have dealt with Stalin at Potsdam . What a different world it would be today.
Russia never paid back lend-lease, either.
I was looking forward to seeing it,having seen the event a few times when I was working in Moscow. The patriotism and honoring to their WW2 veterans and military is unmatched by any nation in the world.
The Soviets defeated the German nation with grueling combat and unbelievable sacrifice. The USA sold excess industrial capacity and performative military efforts (in the German war, and on a relative basis) for a substantial and oversized share of the postwar world. It was a more than even trade, and one which denuded the European nations and afforded the excess capital (largely devoid of sacrifice) that created the Boomer generation (with their correct discernment that their success was undeserved and unrelated to their actions or development) and the consequent moral void of USA that led us to the present collapse. World War One and Two (in particular) created the moral insolvency of the American shell we see today.
Nothing like celebrating the good old days of the Soviet Union under Stalin. Good times!
Only Finland made payments after WW2. Not Britain or France or anyone else paid a nickel.
“It was a more than even trade, and one which denuded the European nations ...”
The European nations that allied with the U.S. after WWII experienced unprecedented economic growth and political freedom, in contrast to the European nations that allied with the Soviet Union after WWII, which experienced economic stagnation and totalitarianism.
But they were only merchant sailors ...
This assumes that the nations which “allied with the US after WWII” (assuming that under military occupation, they had any political or economic autonomy) were at a net negative prior to US sponsored warfare, economic depredation, and occupation/ control of puppet states. They lost political and economic independence and became USA satellites and have been ever since- I was born and raised in Europe in the late 70’s/ early 80’s, I think you would be surprised to see how mean your vaunted “economic growth and political freedom” was on the ground.
No doubt the Poles preferred the mass murder and slavery that the USSR brought to Poland post WW2 to an alternative that would have included an alliance with the US.
Most of Europe has had a vote post 1991 and they’ve chosen, democratically, to become “US satellites”. LOL.
Life was not good for the disabled veterans of Russia.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn brings it up in “The Gulag Archipelago”, the severely disabled veterans of the Great Patriotic War that lost the capacity to work being sent to gulags and forced resettlement.
Stalin did not like the look of them begging in the cities because the disability support was insufficient to survive.
The most infamous of these is the Spasskaia labor colony near Karaganda, Kazakhstan, to which 15,000 disabled prisoners were sent in the late 1940s and early 1950s (Solzhenitsyn).
And the unfortunate veterans sent to Valaam... After the rumors of the veterans organizing for something to live on.
“There Are No Invalids in the USSR!”
And a large portion of that vote, post 91, was meddled with by the USA and attendant organizations> Slovakia, Serbia, the Ukraine, Georgia, and even more ridicoulous and uninvolved polities, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania. I think would have been best for all involved to attend to their own affairs, but that is not possible for the failed nomenklatura of end stage USA.
Solzhenitsyn admitted in one of his gulag books that he raped a German woman when his troops passed through Germany. One of his men asked him what woman he wanted, he picked her out, it happened at a family farm. The woman begged him not to kill her and he let her go. He said he regretted the incident. I was appalled when I read his own words about it. No further comment.
It’s just a natural product of history. Free people don’t want the filth and scum of Russkiy Mir on them.
Solzhenitsyn admitted in one of his gulag books that he raped a German woman when his troops passed through Germany.
Ah, yes. Once again we have found the mysterious “Russian Soul”.
“Only Finland made (Lend-Lease) payments after WW2. Not Britain or France or anyone else paid a nickel.”
Most recipients did get significant forgiveness, but most also made some payments in kind, like providing food and fuel for American forces, or offering rent-free use of their bases (like Diego Garcia for many decades, by the Brits), in lieu of cash re-payment. Repayment schedules were generally stretched over 50 years. The Netherlands actually paid in full.
Same six tanks run around the block to keep the image up.
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