“It’s kind of subtly turned everything upside down - a cult of victory into a cult of war.” “They transformed this unifying myth that Russia had into a justification for an actual war,” said Maxim Trudolyubov, a Russian journalist who has written about the issue. In the Baltic navy town of Baltiysk, the local organizers of the “Immortal Regiment” march - a solemn procession of people with portraits of their World War II veteran relatives, held across the country on May 9 - are having wounded marines back from Ukraine join in. Warplanes will fly over Moscow in a “Z” formation - the symbol of support for this year’s invasion - and airborne troops who fought recently in Ukraine will parade through Red Square in their armored personnel carriers. Monday’s commemoration will be a lavish government-orchestrated show of Russian might and a claim of rightful dominance over a lost empire - a day to galvanize public support for the war by slandering Ukraine as a successor to Nazi Germany. Putin, May 9 means something very different.
Romanova, Russia’s May 9 holiday, marking the Soviet victory over the Nazis, is about remembering those grandparents, a day “to extend our love to them, to somehow express what we couldn’t when we were little.”īut this year, for President Vladimir V.
She met her husband in her four years on the eastern front. Romanova said, but somehow carried “big, grown, wounded men” to safety. Olga Romanova’s grandmother served as a frontline nurse in World War II.
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