Speech by the President of Russia at the military parade
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia,
Dear veterans,
Comrade soldiers and sailors, sergeants and sergeant majors midshipmen and warrant officers,
Comrade officers, generals and admirals,
Soldiers and commanders, frontline personnel participating in the special military operation,
I congratulate you on Victory Day! This is our main, truly national sacred holiday.
Today we are honouring our fathers and grandfathers and grand-grandfathers. They defended their native land and crushed Nazism, liberated the peoples of Europe and displayed unparalleled heroism in combat and on the home front.
Today, we are witnessing attempts to distort the truth about World War II. This truth is a sore for those who have developed a habit of basing their effectively colonial policy on duplicity and lies. They are tearing down memorials to those who really fought Nazism, erecting monuments to traitors and Hitler’s accomplices and erasing the memory of the heroism and noble spirit of the liberators and the great sacrifice they made for the sake of all life on Earth.
Harbouring revanchist sentiments, making a mockery of history, and seeking to justify present-day Nazi followers is part of what constitutes a common policy of Western elites to fuel regional conflicts, inter-ethnic and inter-religious strife and to contain sovereign and independent centres of global development.
We reject exceptionalist claims of any country or alliance. We know what this unchecked ambition may lead to. Russia will do utmost to avoid a global confrontation but it will not allow itself to be threatened. Our strategic forces are always in combat readiness.
The West would love to forget the lessons of World War II, but we remember that the destiny of humankind was decided during the colossal battles of Moscow, Leningrad, Rzhev, Stalingrad, Kursk, Kharkov, Minsk, Smolensk and Kiev, and in the intense and bloody fighting from Murmansk to the Caucasus and the Crimea.
For the first three long and harsh years of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union, along with all its constituent republics, fought the Nazis virtually single-handedly, while the virtually of all Europe worked to support the Nazi war machine.
But let me emphasise: Russia has never belittled the significance of the Second Front or that of Allied assistance. We honour the valor of all members of the Anti-Hitler Coalition, the Resistance Movement, the underground movement and guerrillas, as well as the courage displayed by the peoples of China fighting for their independence against militarist Japan’s aggression. We will forever remember and we will never forget our joint struggle and the inspiring traditions of alliance.
Friends!
Russia is now going through a difficult, watershed moment of its history. The fate of our Motherland and its future depend on each us.
Today, on Victory Day, we feel it ever more sharply and never fail to draw inspiration from our generation of the brave, noble and wise victors, and the way they cherished friendship and remained firm in the face of adversity, always trusted themselves and their country, and had a sincere and selfless love for their Motherland.
We are celebrating Victory Day against the backdrop of the Special Military Operation. All of those engaged in it, on the frontlines, are our heroes. We are humbled by your fortitude and self-sacrifice. All of Russia stands with you.
Our veterans, too, believe in you, and they are worried about you. That they remain involved emotionally in your lives and heroism is an unbreakable tie that binds this heroic generation together.
Today we honour the radiant memory of those whose lives were taken by the Great Patriotic War, the memory of sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grand-grandfathers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, family members and loved ones and friends.
We bow our heads while cherishing the memory of the Great Patriotic War’s veterans who are no longer with us. In memory of civilians who died in the barbarous shelling and terrorist attacks committed by the neo-Nazis, and of our brothers-in-arms who have fallen in the struggle against neo-Nazism and in the righteous fight for Russia.
I declare a minute of silence.
(A moment of silence.)
Our dear veterans, comrades and friends!
May 9 is always an emotional and poignant date. Every family cherishes its heroes, looks at their photographs, their dear, beloved faces, remembers their family members and their tales of war and toil.
Victory Days unites all generations. We are going forwards relying on our centuries-old traditions and feeling confident that together we will ensure a free and secure future of Russia.
Glory to the valiant Armed Forces! For Russia! For Victory!
Hurah!
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See also:
https://sonar21.com/russia-remembers-the-united-states-forgets/
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The Russians still remember the death and destruction brought to their doorsteps in WW2. It’s in their blood. I doubt WW2 is even taught in US history anymore. The only remaining connection is the occasional WW2 movie. Pearl Harbor Day goes practically unnoticed in USA now. Russia will not tolerate foreign troops on its soil again killing civilians. The civilians who reside far away from Russia will not be spared as in WW2. Putin and his emissaries state this all the time and yet still NATO does not listen.
Have you heard the part were Stalin was building up for an all out assault on Germany or the reason why, according to Goring, Germany’s preemptive strike against the USSR failed was because Hitler’s Generals would not follow his orders?
It is taught in HS. Began 1942 when Japanese interned in concentration camps ended 1945 when Red Tails killed Hitler. Then Obama’s grand father liberate Auswitz and discovere holicoust.
Why -4???????
Russia has long said that no future war will be fought on Russian territory, and that Russia will use nukes if necessary to prevent that….Neocons don’t listen, of course…
The Russians fucking started WW2. Any other analysis is ignorant.
“They defended their native land and crushed Nazism” Which is why these stalwart defenders of the Motherland had to have squads of commissars in the rear shooting anyone who dare retreat and 3 to 400,000 former POWs upon returning to the USSR were executed for the treasonous crime of being captured. They ” crushed” it , bruh.
Thanks Flash, you made my point for me. Yes, they were all in. That is what I am talking about once they decide to go hot against NATO they will not stop until the West is a heaping pile of embers.
For a view point for the National Socialist perspective….riveting is the word.
The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer,
https://archive.org/details/degrelle-leon-the-eastern-front-memoirs-of-a-waffen-ss-volunteer
Probably a better scanned version here:
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=BCB1535FEBEAC0AE947D170453C22CC0
Also, for a firsthand account of the rise of Hitler, from an activist involved in the National Socialist movement, read this. If your interested in WWII history and events that led to the creation of National Socialism, this is it.
Hitler: Born at Versailles
Leon Degrelle
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=BA421CE7D746D2808E7F2F68E85497A9
Off topic
About time…electricity has become such a bore.
Buy moar batteries!!!!
Bubba Putin left out the part wherein millions of White Christian patriots gave their lives to defeat ” Nazism” in ” the Great War” so the Bolsheviks could torture, rape, rob and murder millions of members of their immediate Christian families, just for shits and giggles, back in the USSR. . Heroes, one and all.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
They would have lost without usa help.
Very possibly..but in the end, the Germans would probably find they had won nothing, and have to retreat…like Napolean.
in the 1800s, it was France. it the 1900s, it was Germany twice. in the 2000s, it is NATO. it is amazing why anyone would NOT expect Russia to react when the wind is blowing from west to east, as it has before, bringing what it brought and as it is doing now.
history should show even the dimmest bulb that there are certain places and people which will not take kindly to threats and react accordingly. Russia is one such place.
is stealing, rather then buying, the $75 Trillion in resources under the ground in Russia worth planetary destruction? some asses apparently think so. as usual, it is NOT they, or theirs, that will pay the ultimate price.
Stealing the resources for the West was the whole rationale for arming the Ukraine, and breaking the treaties with Russia…Rand corporation wrote a paper on it…
I think “they” will do everything to fight Russia but will stop short of the nukes.
whatever happens, don’t congregate in public to remember the veterans in your family, 13 days to slow the spread
https://tass.com/society/1779277
“hybrid format” means post things to social media