Glory to our heroic Red Army, which upheld the independence of our Motherland and won victory over the enemy! Glory to our great people, the people victorious! Eternal glory to the heroes who fell in the struggle against the enemy and gave their lives for the freedom and happiness of our people! On a radio broadcast on Stalin announced: But then came victory in Europe, celebrated on May 9, a day after VE Day (fighting stopped a day later in Russia). The cult that had been constructed around him in the 1930s seemed to have been abandoned. More worrying, some fear that if that victory proves elusive, the day might instead be used as a “ fulcrum” for a wider mobilisation of forces.īut why is this anniversary such a powerful force in Russian politics? During the worst days of the second world war, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was conspicuously absent from his country’s media.
Commentators suggest that the recent military reorientation towards Ukraine’s Donbas region was driven by a May 9 deadline. Eight MiG-29s will form the letter Z, the symbol adopted by supporters of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.įor the 2022 ceremony in Moscow’s Red Square the Kremlin is desperate to have a victory from the Ukraine war to announce.
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This year, the Kremlin promises a parade on May 9 with 11,000 servicemen and women plus 62 airplanes and 15 helicopters. Even in the darkest days of the pandemic in 2020 Russia didn’t cancel Victory Day, its anniversary of the end of the second world war – it was just postponed.
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