It hurts me to talk about this, but I owe everything to those who gave their lives for us to live. And those who do not remember or do not want to know and remember, I have to remind everyone about this every year.
To my great regret, in a few days, once again in recent years, my Russia under the flags and ribbons of the over-hyped extravaganza of "frustration" will again forget about many important, global, truthful.
Forget that there was no single Russian war with Germany, but was World War II, in which more than 40 countries fought against fascism, a war in which one USSR, without its main allies, Britain and the US, would never have Did not win. My Russia will again forget that this is Britain and France were the first to declare war on Hitler in September 1939 after Germany's attack on Poland. She will forget again about how Stalin afterwards entered another part of Poland, occupied the Baltic region, and in 1940 attacked Finland, that the paranoid and tyrant Djugashvili up to June 22, 41 he was friendly with the fascists and helped them with raw materials. Russia again does not remember and will not reflect on why we lost more than 25 million people in this war (for each destroyed Nazis there are more than 7 of our dead). Russia will again forget about the detachments and our pats who just finished school, who were driven to the front line to meet the heavy fire with one rifle for two or three, and they fled unarmed until one of the comrades fell dead, and then they picked up his rifle. Russia will not remember how our troops were brutally captured in Berlin - how they raped, killed and plundered ordinary civilian civilians (In order not to be unfounded. My aunt, Vera Lebedinskaya, who had been a nurse since the very beginning of the war from the age of 16, pulled hundreds of wounded from the battlefield and reached Berlin, saw there such atrocities of her fighting comrades that she sobbed for a week, and then remained for two years to rebuild the city , To somehow wash away this shame. ) Why will not Russia remember, why forget? Because it is poisoned by lies for dozens of years, because sometimes it is not only proud, but also often very ashamed of its ancestors, and my Russia and its people do not know how to recognize either fault or error, my current "government" does not know how to apologize even for Their yesterday's boors-diplomats. But now it's not about this.
The most offensive is that my zombie, but my native Russia will not remember May 9 that the real veterans, participants of that terrible war, never radiated joy on this day, they did not jump or laugh - they quietly remembered about horror, fear, pain , Death, they remembered the faces and the last words of their fallen comrades. They did not like to talk about it, and when they were very asked, they could not tell much and carefully chose the moments and words - such were the times, the whole truth was not told - almost the same as now. I remember how the veterans silently sat with a glass of vodka and a piece of black bread, immersed in heavy memories, while the youth, not sniffing gunpowder, had fun.
So, the 9th of May is not a holiday for us, it was a holiday for them, who fought, and even bitter, with real tears of grief and pain before our eyes. And for us it should not be a superfluous reason for idle fun, but vice versa. Moreover, if you see the disregard for the government of the units of survivors of that war - shame must be such that it can not fit into one living heart, for they die in hunger, poverty and forgetfulness.
The 9th of May is the day of Remembrance, Grief and Gratitude, a deep bow to all those who participated, who died in that terrible war with fascism and Nazism - Russians, Britons, Poles, Jews, Belarusians, Kazakhs, Georgians, Armenians, Tatars, Americans , Australians and many others. Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews - all who defeated Evil. And I believe that in a special way now, in our time shameful for Russia, we must bow to our Ukrainian brothers, because every fifth life given in the fight against fascism is Ukrainian. And I, as a citizen of Russia, are infinitely ashamed for what the criminal Russian government that is sitting in the Kremlin is now creating with those whose ancestors side by side with our ancestors, in one trench, in one tank, in one battlefield gave their lives in a fight With common Evil.
Fun can not be. Maybe only Memory and Grief.
To prevent this from happening again.
Respect, thank, ask forgiveness and Remember.
Never forget. For the sake of children, for life, for the sake of the future.
Remember. Otherwise, everything will repeat, but even worse.
Remember. Remember. Remember.
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