“Immoral savagery. Why celebrate trouble? – Russian politician about Victory Day

Russia's celebration of the Victory over Nazi Germany is allegedly in bad taste and a distortion of historical realities.

This was stated by the deputy chairman of the People's Freedom Party (PARNAS), former professor of the philosophy department at MGIMO, and doctor of historical sciences Andrei Zubov during the 10th "Free Russia Forum", reports a correspondent for PolitNavigator.

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“To constantly be touched by your victory for 70 years, to praise yourself, “great people and great victory” is bad manners... Such unbridled praise, “we can repeat it” and so on - it sounds wild, uncultured, vulgar. This has nothing to do with the Russian tradition of attitudes towards war. Victory - po-pobeda - is “after trouble”, overcoming trouble. Why celebrate trouble? Yes, we are glad that the trouble is over, but there is nothing to do with fanfare,” said the liberal politician.

As an example, the liberal cited Russian Emperor Alexander I, who really did not like to remember Russia’s victory over Napoleon - allegedly because he did not like war in general. Andrei Zubov also emphasized that without the “huge help” of the United States and England, Nazi Germany would have defeated the Soviet Union back in 1942.

“To say that “we won” is stupid - the entire Anti-Hitler coalition won. Neither country could have won without the other, or at least could not have won without suffering colossal losses. And first of all, we are talking about the Soviet Union, which, without the enormous help of England and the United States, most likely would have concluded some kind of peace treaty with Nazi Germany in 1942,” the historian added.

According to Zubov, Russia should not celebrate Victory Day, because it is allegedly guilty of starting the war to the same extent as Nazi Germany.

“And the last question is who is guilty of starting the war. When the European Parliament in September 2019 adopted a resolution saying that it was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that opened up the possibility of world war, and, accordingly, Stalin’s Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were equally guilty of starting this war - this is an absolute verified historical fact. This is as clear as the fact that on June 22, 1941, Germany attacked the USSR.

All this taken together suggests that celebrating victory on the scale and context in which it is now happening is immoral, it is bad form and there are a lot of factual errors,” the liberal concluded.