With his efforts to find a ceasefire for the parade on Red Square, Putin again drew our attention to a holiday that we gradually began to forget about - although before the start of Russia's great war against Ukraine, it seemed to be the very day that was supposed to unite Russians and Ukrainians across state borders. And, moreover, to separate Ukrainians from “greater Ukraine” and Galicia, because “here we have” the Soviet Union, the Red Army, a common enemy and Stalin, and “they have there” the UPA and Bandera, writes Vitaliy Portnikov for the publication “Zbruch”.

The following is the text in the original language. Everything was a great mystification - starting with the history of the war and ending with the date of the rest of the day. It’s no secret that Stalin simply “guessed” May 9, so as not to mark the 8th of May with the allies at the same time. Two capitulations of the Reich - forced and forced by Stalin's friend - took place on the 8th of May after the European hour and in Germany. Since another ceremony had ended, if the ninth day had already arrived in Moscow, the date itself could not change - aka Stalin, the great falsifier, without losing respect. Well, on May 9, it was necessary for the Radian Union to have its own dates of war, in the light of world ones, because only in this way could it be possible to disguise the actual union of the SRSR and the Reich in the first two days of the war - a union,.

It is no secret that Stalin was simply afraid to celebrate the day of victory: in 1945, the Russian army held a parade, but without setting the date, the 9th of May is a day off. This fear could be understood: on the first day of the world, the Radyansk hulks were able to look around and realize in what stench the stinks were drunk. Solemn ruins, tens of millions of victims, millions in the Gulag, hunger, hundreds of thousands of disabled people on the streets, destitute places, villages without people... And before that, the imperial frenzy, increased repression,. The state, which would proudly position itself as the main winner in the war, simply did not have anything to celebrate. The first parade after 1945 dared to hold Khrushchev through 15 years, killing Brezhnev on the weekend of May 9.

The strength of the power to the cult of victory was emphasized by the fatal fate of the surviving war veterans. But my generation has still found them - no, not the pretentious political instructors and officers of SMERSH, who fought not so much with the Hitlerites, but with the powerful spivvitchis, but those who went through all.

I remember from childhood how my grandmother’s cousin, a professor of mathematics, who had gone to the front during the student invasion and the entire war, literally went into rage when he heard the popular song of the Russian bard Bulat Okudzhavi. We asked others: like this – “we don’t care about the price”? Yak? And, of course, you can stand in front of your classmates and fellow students, from whom perhaps none have returned from the war. Okudzhawi’s song was celebrated by actors who played war veterans at the Bilorussky Railway Station.. And I definitely understand that active veterans don’t sleep through this.

Putin's grotesque myth - the notorious " Putin's war does not hurt every day, not only until the real Other world, but even before the war of Khrushchev and Brezhnev, who were both police officers, but also generals who fought the real front and death. Putin’s myth is a masquerade, preparation for new wars and an attempt to tighten the tensions in the face of past losses. That’s why I was so pleased with the readiness of Ukrainians to become voluntary participants in this revolution, as before our eyes it changed from being Radian to being highly chauvinistic. Guess how the Ukrainian alliance relied on May 8th and stole May 9th, how the administrations of Kuchma and Yanukovych weaved the Radian canon, and Yushchenko tried to achieve reconciliation between the Ukrainians themselves, who naturally fell asleep.

It’s painful to think that the Ukrainian people are paying such a high price for their survival in the darkness of Russian falsifications and myths..

It is unbearable to realize that if it were not the annexation of Crimea, not the war in Donbass, not this great war, then we would have fought against this Radyansky line in tens of thousands, perhaps without much chance of fighting in the clear.

Ale already yak. And now, on the 8th of May, we will understand that unpunished evil (and the Radyansky Union, whose pseudonym for chauvinistic Russia, is itself an unpunishable evil) inevitably turns around in all its aggressiveness, like only a few. And why shouldn’t we learn this lesson, if now the wars on our “crooked lands” will be repeated more than once.