Even in difficult times like now, May 9. If you ask an ordinary Russian if you want to stop celebrating this day, confusion, discontent or anger may grimace, but it will be difficult to find someone who agrees. to be sacrificed more than 20 million The number of Soviet citizens was something that determined the Russians, especially those living in the west of the country where Nazi Germany had come to control part of the region, besides bombing, destroying infrastructure and killing both civilians and soldiers.
With this collective scar in memory – many Russians lost an ancestor at that time – it is important for Russians to commemorate the sacrifice of these people. Aware of the dogma assumed by the memory of military success, the Kremlin sought to establish it. parallels between current attack Ukraine and the Great Patriotic WarIt is often referred to as the Second World War in Russia and some countries that were part of the Soviet Union. This is why, in the obituaries of soldiers who died on the Bakhmut, Mariupol or Kherson fronts, they are compared to those who challenged the Nazi monster by being labeled “” in both cases.heroes“.
Symbology and dictionary
Even before Moscow officially went to war with Ukraine “anti-fascism” To justify the war in the Donbas, precedent current attack. Since 2014, pro-Russian militias and guerrillas in eastern Ukraine have repeatedly fought against the Ukrainian regular army. symbology and dictionary Something that caught the attention of some foreign volunteers who were creating the new “fictions” of World War II.Internationalist Brigades“.
militants communists and socialistsHe came to Ukraine, mainly from Europe and Latin America, to fight alongside paramilitary groups of different kinds, claiming to “stop fascism once again”, even going so far as to fight alongside far-right guerrillas. Chetniks Serbs accused of war crimes in the Balkan conflicts, Russian Orthodox Army – a group stigmatized as fundamentalists and accused of murdering and kidnapping Christians from other branches – or members of the National Bolshevik Party. This formation confuses the principles German Nazism with Marxist theoryA strange union that is forbidden in Russia.
Fighting the “Nazis”
Aware of the stigma of calling a country or government “Nazi” today, especially in the eyes of Russians, Ukraine has been stigmatized for years therefore, the high point of such a comparison, February 24, 2022, when Vladimir Putin declared a “special military operation” to “seaize” the country. Previously, especially since 2014 Moscow, maximizing the importance of far-right groups Like the Praviy Sektor or Azov Battalion in Ukraine.
From state channels or from the mouth of representatives of Russian power, anyone perceived as “unfriendly“, he even points to personally. This is, for example, the case of the Russian president, Putin, who points to this. Josep BorellHigh Representative of the European Union, in the 30s He would rise up with the Francoist army.
Ukraine is taking open support something that has not escaped the attention of the Russian ruling party, both from the USA and most EU countries. One of the main speakers of Putinism from the state, propagandist Pervy Kanal Dmitri KisiliovEurope’s Support Kiev as revenge for wars and battles He says that he lost against Russia, among them: stalingradThe defeat that cracked the Nazi war machine.