Russia celebrates Victory Day over Nazi Germany with large military parade | PHOTOS

The Russian President, Vladimir Putinassured this Tuesday that his country is in the midst of a “real war” declared by Westwhom he accused of forgetting the lessons of Second World Warwhen the Nazi Germany he also sought world hegemony.

⚡️WWII Victory Day parade is underground on Red Square.

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“A real war has once again been unleashed against our homeland. But we resist international terrorism and we will also defend the inhabitants of the Donbas and we will guarantee our safety“, said putin in the Red Square during the Victory Day military parade.

Accompanied by nonagenarian veterans of the world war, but isolated from the rest of the world, putin took advantage of the most important date in the Russian calendar to harangue the troops fighting in Ukrainewhose victory is more than in question at this stage of the campaign.

putin assured that “now there is nothing more important” for him Kremlin that “the special military operation”, whose success, he admitted, depends on the security and future of the country.

In fact, the parade was preceded by a new night bombardment against kyivhours before the arrival in the city of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

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THE WAR OF THE WEST

From his pulpit next to the Lenin’s mausoleumreturned to give a history lesson to West noting that, as was the case with hitler, “Boundless ambition, arrogance and permissiveness inevitably lead to tragedy.”

“We consider that any supremacist ideology is by its disgusting, criminal and deadly nature. Instead, globalist elites continue to defend their exclusivity, pit people against each other and divide societies, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia and aggressive nationalism”, he stressed.

He accused the Western powers of “impose their will, their rights, their rules” and actually forge “a system of looting, violence and oppression“in which they are also destroyed”the traditional values ​​that make a man a man”.

“They seem to have forgotten what the insane Nazi aspiration for world domination led to, who destroyed that monstrous and utter evil (…) and who spared no lives for the sake of Liberation of the peoples of Europe”, he said, alluding to the Red Army.

In addition, he charged against some countries “revanchists”, in clear allusion to Poland and the Balticsto prepare a “new march against Russia”, whose objective would be to achieve its disintegration.

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THE ISOLATION OF THE KREMLIN

In an attempt to avoid the complete isolation of the head of the Kremlinat the last moment the leaders of various former Soviet republics were invited to add up to seven leaders, among which the most prominent was Russia’s main ally in Ukraine, the Belarusian Alexander Lukashenko.

Putin also congratulated the victory day to the Ukrainian, Moldovan and Georgian peoples, but not to their leaders, with whom he is at odds.

Since the 60th anniversary of the victory (2005), when the parade was attended by the president of USA, George W. Bush, the guest list has been reduced until the Western leaders have completely disappeared.

The Russian leader did not hesitate to allude in his speech to Ukrainewho lives, in his opinion, a “catastrophe”, but not because of the military intervention launched by Russia in February 2022.

“He is hostage to a coup d’état, the criminal regime established as a consequence and its western masters. It is a bargaining chip in carrying out their cruel and lucrative plans.”, he asserted.

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TERROR IN THE BACK GUARD

Some 10,000 soldiers, including more than half a thousand combatants in Ukrainethey paraded through the cobblestones of the square, but the day was watered down due to the strict security measures adopted for fear of Ukrainian sabotage.

Russia did show the anti-aircraft batteries S-400 and cruise missiles iskander that terrorize the neighboring country, in addition to the Yars intercontinental rockets, but only one tank (the legendary T-34) crossed the square and the exercise of military muscle did not include the traditional air parade this year.

was also canceled immoral regimentthe traditional march with portraits of the fallen, an act in which he always participates putinsince the risk was too great, and more than twenty cities in the European part of Russia parades were cancelled.

In an unprecedented step, the Red Square to the public for two weeks, a decision taken before two allegedly Ukrainian drones last week damaged the dome of the palace of the Kremlin where putin He has his office.

Source: Elcomercio

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