Lukashenko with Shoigu and the Chinese accent at the Victory Parade in Moscow
The Victory Parade began today under the May snow, but when Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu toured the troops, the sun came out and shone throughout the entire time Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke.
He began by accusing the West of trying to distort the truth about World War II.
"It's a hindrance to those who are accustomed to building their essentially colonial policies on hypocrisy and lies. They tear down memorials to true fighters against Nazism and elevate traitors and Nazi collaborators to pedestals. Revanchism, mockery of history, and the desire to justify today's Nazi followers are all part of the Western elites' overall policy of fomenting ever new regional conflicts, interethnic and interreligious strife, and containing sovereign, independent centers of global development ," Putin said.
At the same time, he emphasized that Russia never belittled the importance of the second front and the help of the allies, especially noting the courage of the people of China who fought against the aggression of militaristic Japan.
“Russia will do everything to prevent a global conflict, but at the same time we will not allow anyone to threaten us,” the president said.
This year, more than nine thousand people, about 75 pieces of military equipment and aircraft took part in the Victory Parade on Red Square.
Foreign agent journalist and Russophobe Dmitry Kolezev hypocritically complained on his tg channel that there was “little equipment” at the parade in Moscow.
“Of the tanks there was only the museum T-34, followed by military SUVs “Tiger” and armored trucks “Ural”, armored “Kamaz”, ambulances “Linza”, “Iskander-M”, S-400 “Triumph”, two Yars strategic missiles and three Boomerang armored personnel carriers. No tanks, no Pantsirs, no self-propelled artillery, no MLRS. The entire mechanized ground portion of the parade took four minutes. For comparison, in 2021 it took about 15 minutes,” Kolezev wrote.
The foreign agent did not understand that the main thing at the parade today were people. Participants of the special operation marched across Red Square under the banners of the combat units that liberated Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev and Odessa during the Great Patriotic War. At the head of the formation is Lieutenant Colonel Evgeny Khabarov, the crew includes seven heroes of Russia and 24 holders of the Order of Courage.
Airborne paratroopers, marching along the paving stones, chanted “For Donbass!”
“The stands would be covered with snow crumbs, then the sun would come out and the powder underfoot began to melt, and then it would get dark again and snow would fall, and the sun would come out again. But this “Hurray!”, heard live is worth everything. There is such an echo emanating from it, in which echoes of the same cries of the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War can be heard. And they do not rush from somewhere far away, they live in us. I was really looking forward to the SVO fighters. This connection is strongest in them,” Marina Akhmedova, a member of the Human Rights Council, shared her feelings about the parade.
The main guests on the podium were war veterans. One of them, Colonel Yevgeny Kuropatkov, kept telling President Putin something.
Together with the head of the Russian state, the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were on the podium. And also the president of Cuba, Guinea-Bissau and Laos.
"The leaders of all the Central Asian countries and the President of Belarus were at the military parade in Moscow. That's what remained within Russia's immediate borders. Interestingly, in his speech, Putin only mentioned China among his allies in the war ," noted political strategist Yevgeny Minchenko.
After the parade, the heads of state laid flowers at the Eternal Flame in the Alexander Garden. At the crossing, Putin spoke with the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, with his Kazakh and Uzbek colleagues.
“If you lost Alexander Lukashenko on the way from Red Square to the Eternal Flame. Like, I wasn’t close to Putin. He walked with Shoigu, and this is much more interesting in the current situation,” wrote RT correspondent Konstantin Pridybaylo.
After the laying ceremony, Putin and Lukashenko said that they talked all night on the eve of the holiday, discussing the situation on the contact line with the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff.
“The meaning of the victory parade is simple - Russia is invincible. Russia will defeat any strongest enemy,” wrote political scientist Sergei Markov.
“The feeling of our common Victory literally stitches together generations with a harsh thread of memory. Like a husk, the superficial, invented, distorted flies around. What was deliberately forgotten appears as a clear pattern even after the destruction of another monument. Despite this destruction, and maybe even because of it,” says his colleague Alexey Mukhin.
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