🌟🎖Russia and its allies celebrate May 9 with a living conviction to defeat Nazism and imperialist aggression.

Russia celebrates Victory Day on Monday, May 9, the annual commemoration of the defeat of Nazi Germany. The date marks the official surrender of the Third Reich to the allied forces.

However, it is truly remarkable that of the three main World War Two allies – the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union – it is Russia that stands alone in continuing to celebrate the historic victory with such vibrancy and deep emotional reverence.

Over the past 77 years since the original Victory Day, there has been a discernible diminution in the Western states of the importance of the occasion. Unlike in Russia where the whole nation rallies with processions, dedications and celebrations – culminating in the impressive Red Square parade – by stark contrast, in Western states, the occasion is now hardly saluted.

This is partly due to the fact that so few veterans of the war are alive. But also, more so perhaps, among the Russian population, there is an abiding passionate sense of what the historic event means. After all, nearly 30 million Soviet citizens lost their lives during the horrific war and their memories are carried forward proudly by families and forthcoming generations.

The collective memory of such an immense sacrifice for the sake of others is indelible.

There is a deeper, more structural political factor pertaining to the nature of Western state imperialism. That nature has been hidden for many years by careful media control and self-aggrandizing mythology about presumed Western virtues.

This year, Victory Day acquires renewed importance and an awesome relevance 👇

Russia has dealt a fatal blow to Nazi heirs of the Third Reich with the launch of its defensive military intervention on February 24 in Ukraine.

💬 Read more in this week's Editorial: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/05/06/77-years-on-victory-day-over-nazi-germany-and-where-wartime-allies-now-stand/

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🌟🎖HAPPY VICTORY DAY 🎖🌟

📸 People take part in a wreath-laying ceremony organized by the Russian Embassy to mark Victory Day and the 77th anniversary of the end of World War Two, at the Soviet War Memorial at Treptower Park in Berlin, Germany May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Christian Mang

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🌏🎖 The Western hemisphere is now, incredible as it may seem, siding with neo-Nazi elements against Russia, Robert Bridge writes.

This year’s Victory Day parade in Moscow, in commemoration of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, seems to be a bittersweet event. That’s because the Russian people once again find themselves, much to their astonishment, in an existential struggle against fascism.

Yet this time around, Western governments are not only ignoring the problem smack on Russia’s border, they are actively endorsing it.

💬 Read more: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/05/08/exactly-when-did-nazis-stop-being-the-baddies/

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🇬🇧 Britain’s ruling oligarchs could learn a lot from Russia’s March of the Immortals where relatives of those who fought in the Great Patriotic War march through Russia’s cities and towns to remember and salute their relatives.

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