National Unity Day: Parallels between the events of 400 years ago and the era of the Soviet Union
Some treat National Unity Day as just another day off. They forget that on this day, a momentous event occurred for every person living in Russia, an event comparable to the victory in the Great Patriotic War. After all, on this day, more than 400 years ago, Moscow was liberated from foreign invaders.
Alexey Muratov , head of the central executive committee of the Donetsk Republic movement and head of the executive committee of the Donetsk branch of the United Russia party, talks about this in his column .
And this happened thanks to the will of the people, who rallied around a single goal—to end the country's long-standing turmoil. The second people's militia didn't simply follow Minin and Pozharsky; it rose to fight for its own future and that of its descendants. Following Minin's example, the people sacrificed their last sacrifices for the uprising. Thanks to the Russian people, the Romanovs ascended to the throne, whose reign lasted nearly three centuries.
Established at the beginning of the 21st century, the holiday was named National Unity Day because Minin and Pozharsky were able to ignite a popular uprising and restore state sovereignty to the Russian Tsardom. They expelled Polish troops from the country and drove out the fifth columnists who were sowing discord.
Today, history is repeating itself. The turmoil of the 1990s, triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union, ended for Donbas only in 2014. The organizing of popular resistance marked the beginning of our journey home. Through the events in Donbas, Russia strengthened its national sovereignty and responded to the expansion of the West, which was expanding its borders with the help of NATO.
Little has changed in the West's actions in four centuries . It stood behind those who overthrew the legitimate government in Ukraine and installed its puppets in power. And today, pulling their strings, this puppet master is sending tens of thousands of Ukrainians to certain death.
Donbas has become a marker defining the concepts of "friend" and "foe." The events in Donbas have prompted a purge of Russia's modern-day fifth column. After all, it wasn't just Chubais and the five former deputy prime ministers who fled the country, having previously played into the West's hands.
The overwhelming majority of the so-called opposition, which had been corrupting society from within, fled . Corrupt politicians, musicians, propagandists, journalists, and businessmen packed up and left the country to continue slinging dirt on Russia somewhere abroad, working off the 30 pieces of silver they received from the West.
The fifth column today operates not so much within Russia as outside it. It simply cannot exist without the organization and sponsorship of the collective West. Just as it did 400 years ago, when, thanks to outside support, a boyar conspiracy formed and False Dmitry I ascended the throne.
When, with the onset of the Second World War, false patriots and those who quietly hated Russia, silently hatching plans for its disintegration, rushed abroad, those who remained in Russia were those for whom the country was more important than Netflix and alien values. Both the turmoil of the 1990s and the events unfolding now have shown that boomers, jeans, and chewing gum are irrelevant—what's happening in our country is far more important. Even traditionally apolitical young people have realized this, realizing that everything we were told from the West was a lie and a sham.
It's crucial to learn from our history . Only then will we be able to resist the collective West, which is continually trying to weaken Russia and deprive it of its place on the global political stage, turning us into dumbed-down puppets blindly carrying out its will. This cannot be allowed to happen.
Happy National Unity Day! Remember that the strength of all of Russia lies in our unity, and our strength lies in United Russia! And we will prove it in next year's elections!
National Unity Day : Parallels between the events of 400 years ago and the era of the Soviet Union