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Official channel of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Cape Town.

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Официальный канал Генерального консульства РФ в Кейптауне
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🎖️4 мая 2025 года в Кейптауне состоялись торжественное шествие Бессмертного полка и праздничные мероприятия, приуроченные к 80-й годовщине Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 гг.

В числе почётных гостей присутствовали Чрезвычайный и Полномочный Посол Российской Федерации в Южно-Африканской Республике Р.Е. Амбаров, представители аккредитованного в Кейптауне консульского корпуса, видные общественные деятели и представители СМИ.

С приветственным словом выступил Генеральный консул России в Кейптауне А.В. Маленко. Он подчеркнул вклад южноафриканцев, воевавших в вооруженных силах стран Антигитлеровской коалиции, в общую победу над нацизмом и напомнил о проявленной в годы войны солидарности её граждан с советским народом:
«Южноафриканское общество оказывало гуманитарную поддержку нашей стране. Международная ассоциация друзей Советского Союза проводила благотворительные акции, организовывала показы документальных фильмов о жизни СССР. Знаковым событием стало исполнение Ленинградской симфонии Дмитрия Шостаковича в Йоханнесбурге и Кейптауне летом 1944 года».

В шествии приняли участие южноафриканские и иностранные граждане, родственники которых сражались против нацизма. Перед собравшимися с праздничной программой выступили воспитанники Русского детского центра, неравнодушные соотечественники. Завершилось мероприятие коллективным исполнением песен военных лет.
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🎖️The Immortal Regiment Procession and Victory Day Celebration in Cape Town

On 4 May 2025, Cape Town hosted the Immortal Regiment Procession and commemorative events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the World War II.

Among the honored guests were His Excellency Mr.Ambarov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation in the Republic South Africa, members of the consular corps, prominent public figures and media representatives.

In his address, Consul General of Russia in Cape Town Mr. Malenko emphasized the contribution of South Africans who fought in the armed forces of the Anti-Hitler Coalition to the shared victory over Nazism. He also recalled the solidarity shown by South African citizens with the Soviet people during the war:

“South African society extended humanitarian support to our country. The International Friends of the Soviet Union Association organized charity campaigns and screened documentary films about life in the USSR. A symbolic event was the performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony in Johannesburg and Cape Town in the summer of 1944.”

South African and foreign citizens whose relatives fought against Nazism took part in the procession. The event featured a festive performance by children from the Russian Children’s Centre and members of the local Russian community. The celebration concluded with a collective singing of wartime songs.
Фотовыставка ТАСС #ИхПодвигБессмертен, приуроченная к 80-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне, рассказывает о последних месяцах войны: от ожесточённых боёв под Веной — до триумфа 9 Мая.

📸 Архивные фото, военные сводки, плакаты #ОкнаТАСС передают атмосферу решающей весны 1945 года.

💬Из выступления Министра иностранных дел России Сергея Лаврова:

Когда мы говорим о Великой Победе, мы вспоминаем ратные подвиги советских воинов, спасших мир от ужасов «коричневой чумы». Свой вклад в общее дело разгрома врага внёс и «информационный фронт». Корреспонденты ТАСС, ежедневно рискуя жизнью, мужественно вели летопись всех 1418 дней войны.

Из сводки от 9 мая 1945 года о капитуляции нацистской Германии:

8 мая 1945 года в Берлине представителями германского верховного командования подписан акт о безоговорочной капитуляции германских вооружённых сил.
Великая Отечественная война, которую вёл советский народ против немецко-фашистских захватчиков, победоносно завершена, Германия полностью разгромлена.
Вечная слава героям, павшим в боях за свободу и независимость нашей Родины!
Да здравствуют победоносные Красная армия и Военно-морской флот!


#Победа80 #ИхПодвигБессмертен
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✍️ Russia’s MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova:

According to a report by Sky News, the neo-Nazis of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will participate in the VE Day procession in London on May 8.

The country has not seen anything like this for nearly 90 years since the infamous Cable Street march, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists was granted official permission to march through London’s East End in October 1936 – an event widely regarded as a shameful chapter in British history.

At that time, many showed support for the British Fascists in London. There were still nearly two years left until the 1938 Munich Agreement – the example of Britain’s appeasing Hitler. England still demonstrated conscience and dignity as anti-fascist activists and some concerned police officers managed to disrupt the far-right and anti-Semite procession in the city.
But this time, London will actually see them march.

Surprisingly, the British authorities’ rationale behind the decision is the Kiev regime’s confrontation with Russia, which is cited directly by Sky News.

This evokes disturbing historical parallels of Great Britain’s notorious insidiousness.

For instance, Winston Churchill, who took part in the Yalta and Potsdam conferences along with the other Big Three leaders, publicly affirmed the alliance with the USSR while addressing Soviet people and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin, and praised the Red Army’s sacrifices. However – as we all know it now – behind closed doors, he authorised the drafting of Operation Unthinkable, a secret plan for a potential Allied invasion of the Soviet Union.

These plans remained classified for half a century until they were finally released by the British General Staff in 1988. Apparently, MI5 and MI6 thought that the Soviet Union, which was on the verge of collapse at the time, would have its historical memory buried, and the publication of these materials would no longer compromise London.

Britain’s direct armed confrontation with the USSR is nothing new. During the Russian Civil War, British forces participated in the Triple Entente intervention. Less than three decades later, the idea of attacking Russia again resurfaced in London.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, many in London hoped for the launch of an offensive against the USSR. The fully developed plan assumed the “strategic defeat” of Moscow after the end of the war in Europe.

Historians continue to debate why the British never sent their weapons against Soviet troops in 1945–1946. Some claim that the Conservative Party losing the election was the cause, while others point to fears that such a war against the USSR would crush Western Europe and Britain itself. Perhaps London ultimately recognised the military prowess of the Red Army that had decisively defeated the Nazi war machine and thus could take upon any challenge.

Now, British authorities, unable to achieve their strategic objectives through inflicting the “strategic defeat” and led by despair and hopelessness, have chosen to allow actual Nazis – Ukrainian terrorists and militants armed with British weapons – to march through Trafalgar Square.

The Global Majority will see it as a parade of ideological descendants of Nazis, collaborators, and criminals responsible for the Holocaust and genocide of Soviet people.

In their attempts to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia, the Anglo-Saxons only inflicted a blow on themselves. Few things could be more shameful and humiliating than allowing inglorious neo-Nazi bastards to walk in the heart of London on the anniversary of Victory. Unfortunately, this is the biggest “strategic defeat” ever experienced by the ordinary British.

https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/10347
🕊️О героизме, стойкости и мире: лекция о Великой Отечественной войне для учеников школы Rainbow Montessori

📚🎖️В продолжение цикла просветительских мероприятий, посвящённых 80-й годовщине Победы в Великой Отечественной войне, представители Генерального консульства России в Кейптауне совместно с активистами Координационного совета российских соотечественников провели лекцию для учащихся школы Rainbow Montessori School.

🕯️Мероприятие стало частью серии образовательных встреч, направленных на сохранение исторической памяти и укрепление гуманитарных связей. Ранее подобное событие состоялось в литературном клубе Lumkile’s Book Joint в тауншипе Гугулету, где школьники впервые услышали о вкладе Советского Союза в Победу над нацизмом.

🧑‍🏫Учащиеся младших и средних классов узнали о подвигах советских солдат, героизме мирных жителей, значении обороны Москвы, блокаде Ленинграда и освобождении Европы. Особое внимание было уделено человеческому измерению войны — историям детей, переживших те годы, солдат-фронтовиков и тружеников тыла.

Была освещена тема солидарности Южной Африкой с советским народом в годы войны: школьникам рассказали о южноафриканцах, воевавших в составе вооруженных сил Антигитлеровской коалиции, а также о гуманитарной помощи, которую оказывали Советскому Союзу местные общественные организации.

Лекция была направлена на формирование у подрастающего поколения чувства уважения к памяти героев прошлого и осознания высокой цены Победы. В завершение встречи ученики задали вопросы и поделились своими впечатлениями.

🤝Генконсульство продолжит просветительскую работу в образовательных учреждениях региона, укрепляя гуманитарные и культурные связи между народами России и Южной Африки.

#Победа80 #МыПомним
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial plaques in the Foreign Ministry building (Moscow, May 6, 2025)

💬 These days, we are marking a great date, the 80th anniversary of the glorious Victory won by the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.

Today, we, the Foreign Ministry staff, with the participation of our veterans and young employees, must make the oath to be eternally loyal to the gains, feats of valour, and heroism, which have guaranteed life to our state, to our common Motherland, the Soviet Union, and the future of rising generations.

In those years, many employees of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and their colleagues from the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Trade left for the front and defended our capital and our Motherland along with Red Army troops and civilian volunteers. They made their contribution to the Great Victory. At the same time, the diplomats, who were filling in for them at the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, as well as their secret service and intelligence colleagues, ensured diplomatic and foreign policy support for the Soviet people’s heroic struggle to save Europe from Nazism. <...>

Throughout the war, the diplomats were doing what was necessary to preclude treason. Today, these documents have been declassified and published. They found out in due time that the British were in the lead of preparations for Operation Unthinkable. It was unthinkable indeed, implying as it did an attack on the Soviet Union with the aim (how familiar it sounds today) of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on it. That experience is invaluable for us now. <...>

Today, they have again rallied against us under the banners of Nazism (in the literal sense of the word) by supporting the openly racist, anti-Russian Zelensky regime that stages torch processions and throws troops with chevrons of Nazi divisions on their sleeves into the war’s meat-grinder. Like before Operation Unthinkable, they are threatening to inflict a “strategic defeat” on us on the battlefield.

🏅 It is important not only to cherish the memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War and #WWII, who have ensured our future and current development (development, I am sure, for long decades and centuries to come), but also to remember the diplomatic experience and lessons of those events. <...>

These days, 80 Eternal Flames are being lighted in our country for the first time. A tradition has been born to take a particle of the Eternal Flame in the Alexander Gardens in Moscow and bring it to someone’s small motherland. Not so long ago, residents of Lugansk did this, followed by a number of other cities. Symbolically, this happens soon after the Happy Easter, when particles of the Holy Fire from Jerusalem travel all over the world, with people celebrating Easter Sunday. For us, this Victory also means a resurrection of the whole of our people, of our history, traditions and pride. We are in duty bound to convey these feelings to our children and grandchildren as our mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers have conveyed them to us.

I want to congratulate the Foreign Ministry staff, the staff or our missions in the regions of the Russian Federation, at embassies and consulates on the upcoming holiday of Great Victory. My special greetings go to our veterans, who are, as usual, on station. They symbolise the generation bridge that has made it possible for us to survive and emerge strengthened from most different situations, including those linked to wars and diplomatic battles.

☝️ Everything is still ahead. No one has promised that all problems can be solved at one go. Life is requiring constant efforts.

I hope that our team that has repeatedly proven its mettle in most difficult situations will continue to implement with honour the foreign policy charted by President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

It is aimed at ensuring in an unconditional manner the Russian Federation’s legitimate, vital interests on the international scene.

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