President of Russia – Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation Armed Forces Vladimir Putin attended a military parade marking the 77th anniversary of Victory in the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War.
Overall, 11,000 personnel and 131 units of military equipment were engaged in the parade.
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Address by the President of Russia at the military parade
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Fellow Russian citizens,
Dear veterans,
Comrade soldiers and seamen, sergeants and sergeant majors, midshipmen and warrant officers,
Comrade officers, generals and admirals,
I congratulate you on the Day of Great Victory!
The defence of our Motherland when its destiny was at stake has always been sacred. It was the feeling of true patriotism that Minin and Pozharsky’s militia stood up for the Fatherland, soldiers went on the offensive at the Borodino Field and fought the enemy outside Moscow and Leningrad, Kiev and Minsk, Stalingrad and Kursk, Sevastopol and Kharkov.
Today, as in the past, you are fighting for our people in Donbass, for the security of our Motherland, for Russia.
May 9, 1945 has been enshrined in world history forever as a triumph of the united Soviet people, its cohesion and spiritual power, an unparalleled feat on the front lines and on the home front.
Victory Day is intimately dear to all of us. There is no family in Russia that was not burnt by the Great Patriotic War. Its memory never fades. On this day, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes march in an endless flow of the Immortal Regiment. They carry photos of their family members, the fallen soldiers who remained young forever, and the veterans who are already gone.
We take pride in the unconquered courageous generation of the victors, we are proud of being their successors, and it is our duty to preserve the memory of those who defeated Nazism and entrusted us with being vigilant and doing everything to thwart the horror of another global war.
Therefore, despite all controversies in international relations, Russia has always advocated the establishment of an equal and indivisible security system which is critically needed for the entire international community.
Last December we proposed signing a treaty on security guarantees. Russia urged the West to hold an honest dialogue in search for meaningful and compromising solutions, and to take account of each other’s interests. All in vain. NATO countries did not want to heed us, which means they had totally different plans. And we saw it.
Another punitive operation in Donbass, an invasion of our historic lands, including Crimea, was openly in the making. Kiev declared that it could attain nuclear weapons. The NATO bloc launched an active military build-up on the territories adjacent to us.
Thus, an absolutely unacceptable threat to us was steadily being created right on our borders. There was every indication that a clash with neo-Nazis and Banderites backed by the United States and their minions was unavoidable.
Let me repeat, we saw the military infrastructure being built up, hundreds of foreign advisors starting work, and regular supplies of cutting-edge weaponry being delivered from NATO countries. The threat grew every day.
Russia launched a pre-emptive strike at the aggression. It was a forced, timely and the only correct decision. A decision by a sovereign, strong and independent country.
The United States began claiming their exceptionalism, particularly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, thus denigrating not just the entire world but also their satellites, who have to pretend not to see anything, and to obediently put up with it.
But we are a different country. Russia has a different character. We will never give up our love for our Motherland, our faith and traditional values, our ancestors’ customs and respect for all peoples and cultures.
Meanwhile, the West seems to be set to cancel these millennia-old values. Such moral degradation underlies the cynical falsifications of World War II history, escalating Russophobia, praising traitors, mocking their victims’ memory and crossing out the courage of those who won the Victory through suffering.
We are aware that US veterans who wanted to come to the parade in Moscow were actually forbidden to do so. But I want them to know: We are proud of your deeds and your contribution to our common Victory.
We honour all soldiers of the allied armies – the Americans, the English, the French, Resistance fighters, brave soldiers and partisans in China – all those who defeated Nazism and militarism.
Comrades,
Donbass militia alongside with the Russian Army are fighting on their land today, where princes Svyatoslav and Vladimir Monomakh’s retainers, solders under the command of Rumyantsev and Potemkin, Suvorov and Brusilov crushed their enemies, where Great Patriotic War heroes Nikolai Vatutin, Sidor Kovpak and Lyudmila Pavlichenko stood to the end.
I am addressing our Armed Forces and Donbass militia. You are fighting for our Motherland, its future, so that nobody forgets the lessons of World War II, so that there is no place in the world for torturers, death squads and Nazis.
Today, we bow our heads to the sacred memory of all those who lost their lives in the Great Patriotic War, the memories of the sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, relatives and friends.
We bow our heads to the memory of the Odessa martyrs who were burned alive in the House of Trade Unions in May 2014, to the memory of the old people, women and children of Donbass who were killed in atrocious and barbaric shelling by neo-Nazis. We bow our heads to our fighting comrades who died a brave death in the righteous battle – for Russia.
I declare a minute of silence.
(A minute of silence.)
The loss of each officer and soldier is painful for all of us and an irretrievable loss for the families and friends. The government, regional authorities, enterprises and public organisations will do everything to wrap such families in care and help them. Special support will be given to the children of the killed and wounded comrades-in-arms. The Presidential Executive Order to this effect was signed today.
I wish a speedy recovery to the wounded soldiers and officers, and I thank doctors, paramedics, nurses and staff of military hospitals for their selfless work. Our deepest gratitude goes to you for saving each life, oftentimes sparing no thought for yourselves under shelling on the frontlines.
Comrades,
Soldiers and officers from many regions of our enormous Motherland, including those who arrived straight from Donbass, from the combat area, are standing now shoulder-to-shoulder here, on Red Square.
We remember how Russia’s enemies tried to use international terrorist gangs against us, how they tried to seed inter-ethnic and religious strife so as to weaken us from within and divide us. They failed completely.
Today, our warriors of different ethnicities are fighting together, shielding each other from bullets and shrapnel like brothers.
This is where the power of Russia lies, a great invincible power of our united multi-ethnic nation.
You are defending today what your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought for. The wellbeing and security of their Motherland was their top priority in life. Loyalty to our Fatherland is the main value and a reliable foundation of Russia’s independence for us, their successors, too.
Those who crushed Nazism during the Great Patriotic War showed us an example of heroism for all ages. This is the generation of victors, and we will always look up to them.
Glory to our heroic Armed Forces!
For Russia! For Victory!
Hooray!
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Obrigado a Deus pela Rússia e aos russos por sua resistência à barbárie.
Thank God for Russia and the Russians for their resistance to barbarism.
I agree. Russia is our best hope.
I agree, too, and I am an American.
I agree too and I am a fourth generation Australian (immigrant from Prussia) who is a member of the ‘unfriendly’ nations.
Me too (to both). When Russia undertook this SMO, I was absolutely ecstatic that the world might finally be set right after decades of vicious, belligerent US imperialism.
So I look forward with great anticipation to Russia’s next victory celebration.
Statecraft of the Soul without peer.
Russia is our only hope. Together with China they will save us from the cruelty and barbarism of the US and NATO.
I am Chinese, I agree with you but sorry not including the communist china! Communism is another kind of neo-Nazi!
I also agree and I am an American. Glory to Russia.
Agreed another yankee American here.
Glory to God as I’m sure most Russians would agree.
Me too and Im American. Slava Rus!
I agree with all my heart. Thank you God for the Russian people and their spirit
Seems to me, everything that needed saying was said. And said clearly, with pride and gratitude, while the neccessity for the current military actions was repeated and underlined.
The western media, desperate for Russia to redefine or clarify the objectives of the SMO will be gnashing their teeth in anger, paining the speach as ‘a desperate attempt to rally some domestic support for this disasterous act of agression’.
However I think many Russians will be comforted & perhaps further united with resolve.
I have seen many speeches by state leaders during my life time.
Some of them made an impression: John F Kennedy, Charles De Gaulle, Ronald Reagan, and Helmut Kohl.
In my youth, one who really touched me by his speech and action was President John F. Kennedy.
Today, President Putin has proven to be an even greater statesman, both by his speeches and accomplishments.
Putin has transformed Russia from being bankrupt, to regain its historic place on the world stage.
At the same time he has been championing smaller Nations for their right in a multi polar world.
Today, Billions of people love President Putin.
However, Western leaders hate him. But why?
The Vatican hates Putin because he made the Russian Empire a the protector of Orthodox Christian Church.
The Royalty of Europe hates Putin because he rebuilt the Russian Empire, thus ending their World Order.
The Globalist Financial Elite hates Putin for liberating the people of Russia from economic exploitation.
The Freemasons in Brussels, London and Washington hates Putin because he’s incorruptible yet humble.
Today, People in the west envy the Russian people, because they have a statesman we can only hope for.
The media is already spinning Putin’s words. From zerohedge quoting sky news:
He spelled out that the West was “preparing for the invasion of our land, including Crimea.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/good-sign-no-nuclear-threats-or-doomsday-plane-toned-down-victory-day-parade-moscow
Actual sentence:
Another punitive operation in Donbass, an invasion of our historic lands, including Crimea, was openly in the making.
What a difference a single word makes. Plus context, which is clearly lacking. So this will be the narrative going forward.
Good catch D.
Your catch explain exactly how the western media lies about Putin and Russia.
We have become so accustomed to their lies, that we are now able to foretell when they are going to lie.
That is why i suggested to have an original transcript to compare to.
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Yes, watching Belgian news, hearing French radio: Putin is week, sober parade, no airforce nor Doomsday plane used. No announcement of general mobilisation. Saw German media speculating about a coup against Putin. French defense minister says the war will take years. French radio France Info talks about war-crimes investigations aided by French gendarmes on place in Butcha, while the Flemish tv was showing many dead unclaimed corpses of Russian soldiers, the message is Russia is loosing badly.
Hidden message : atrocities in Odessa or Donbass never existed. Azovstal is brave resistance fighters. Russians just commit genocide, looting and raping, with cameras recording eyewittness and human rights courts preparing thousands of acts, they already know the names of those who “committed the killings in Butcha “.
My thoughts going towards Assange still tortured in the UK…
ZeroHedge’s Durden mentions Valery Gerasimov — no sign of him. Does anybody know where he is?
Vladimir Putin will go down in history as the tsar who steadily improved people’s lives; secured the Western border; and turned Russia towards the east.
yes against the dying uSA empire of propaganda which has no purpose other than worldwide murder and mayhem
@Passerby
….and I hope, as the Russian leader who defeated the “unipolarity of the western world”.
Vladimir the Great returned from the grave and kicked out from Kazharia again the child sacrificers, the casino players, the amoral people, the money exchangers, the beast, so that Russia can progress with a sound soul, natural vodka and a healthy spiritual nation.
“Donbass militia alongside with the Russian Army are fighting on their land today, where princes Svyatoslav and Vladimir Monomakh’…”
Perhaps not all know one of the main accomplishments of Sviatoslav: the defeat of Khazars cca 965AD.
Pretty sure the Rus president did not bring this name forth accidentally.
Slava Rossiya!
We always knew that,
Russian is NOT ethnicity,
It is WAY of LIFE!
Huraaaa!
Mr. Putin, you are admired around the world (both in Zone A and Zone B),
we put hope on you and Russian People.
May Almighty God always guide you into Victory.
Thank you, best of luck to all of you on this great day.
Some of the great heroes in this liberation of Eastern Ukraine from the Neo-Nazi have been the brave Chechen soldiers.
Testimony of a resident of Mariupol:
“We sat in the basement and heard ‘AllahuAkbar!’ and the room was immediately filled with joy because everyone understood they were Russians.”
It is great to hear from an ally in Indonesia. The current conflict means much, much more than simply a local conflict between Russia and the NATO-allied elements of Ukraine. The haughty, arrogant, and bullying US empire must be turned back. If not now, then when? As in 1812 and 1941, it seems destiny has chosen Russia to redeem the world order.
I am an American. There are more of us who feel the way I do than the western media would lead you to believe. I want the US to return to its original purpose – a peace loving Republic, not an all-devouring empire.
I know it is hard for you to hear, how much Americans are not loved in the world outside.
Actually, it is not. How could most of the world feel otherwise? The disgust and contempt I feel for the American government, media, and increasingly (I am sad to say) its sheep-people has passed a tipping point. When we moved into our new home last year my wife purchased an American flag to fly outside. And she is African-American (going against stereotype right there). We disagreed on this. In the end, I gave in because it wasn’t worth the disagreement. I told her the only flag I am willing to fly is the Gadsden flag (the “Don’t tread on me” flag with the rattlesnake). And don’t misunderstand – I am not some progressive, of whom I despise. But I also despise the Sean Hannitys and Lindsay Grahams. I would be considered part of what is known as the Dissident Right (although in my case it would actually be Dissident Center). The only US politician I would 100% vote for for US president is Tulsi Gabbard.
This is a conflict against Schwab’s and Soros’ death squads of resets against life and normalcy of the rest of the planet. This conflict is metaphysical.
Delusional. Allied with China who runs the WHO, Vaccine rollout and lockdowns…
You can almost repeat your comment for me except I’m Canadian, at least that’s what my father fought for over 3 years during WWII. I’m jealous of the pride that Russia is exuding.
‘Glory to our heroic Armed Forces!
For Russia! For Victory!
Hooray!’
President Putin will go down in history as one of the greatest (if not The Greatest), Leaders of Russia of all time.
Praise Russia and the great Russian people for they truly deserve it!
Viva Vova Vozdh 2036, hooray hooray!!!
President Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin is a king in his people’s hearts. He will go down in history on par with the great Russian tsars. Every Russian should proud of him. Слава Путин, слава Россия!
Very surprised to see President Putin making this speech. According to our Daily Mail newspaper here in the UK Ukrainian forces are massing at the gates of Moscow, President Putin has cancer and dementia and is hiding in a bunker under the Kremlin contemplating suicide.
Yep, and Elensky still dream of NATZO to counter-attack Russian in Donbass, like those of Hitler’s Steiner’s attack that never happened.
Right :))
And what a speech he made, as usual…
Hooray!
The pathetic buggers and apprentice wiretappers fm the Langley suburbs & capitolium were expecting a clue, a simple slipped word or pale indication in bad Vlad’s speech,able to give them a remote orientation or
a guess of what are the Ruskies plans in Ukraine.
Military plans, occupying plans, political plans whatever.
We ‘re sorry not a toothpick of a plan was said or suggested.
Yes, keep on guessing, fm coast to coast, a national sport for the next two years.
Well, he did expose again the bigbig plan> ” so that there is no place in the world for torturers, death squads and Nazis.” (note “in the world”)
The political plan and the military-technical plan is denazification on a global scene, and the plan Xi and VVP published Feb 4, 2022. The latter outline the restoration of international law and the sovereignty of states, etc
@ RT see “going underground E1010 about 10 minutes into the dialogue we learn “who is a nazi”…in the common view of modern Russian member of Duma…
Obvious inescapable implication. SMO-404 is merely a small part of Plan
Exactly ! That ‘in the world’ doesn’t leave much room – but ‘law’ worth it’s name can only be based on the ground or a fixed truth. As Sokrates (as narrated by Plato in “Republic”) showed once and forever that an absolute (a statement like “there is a definite truth (ground)”) is a valid statement while a statement like “everthing is relative” in itself is a false and impossible statement – no statement at all in fact AND a statement like “some things are relative” (which is a valid statment) is hierarchically subordinate to the ground statement. This was set 2600 years ago (acc. to history books), and it needed the completion of the atomic bomb to be forced unto humanity or becoming a materializing possibility – the alternative is non-existence.
THIS is now being acted out !
The implications cannot be put into words really !
In furtherance the ‘rules’ based order is thinly veiled sophistry (which always devolves into the bestial and thoroughly fascist “Might is Right”), or Obimbo’s “Do what I say, but do not what I do !” or being cheaten on the UN-floor by a faux poison sample in order to kill millions of Iraqis – is rule based order – a master – slave order – in fact no order at all ! Interestingly however they always have to cloak themselves in righteosness, otherwise the system would devolve into bestiality almost immediatly – one magic trick after another is indispensible because only then can they parasitize the hope for truth. The lie itself is the indicator for the right direction in fact, and testimony to the existence of truth !
ALL this lies in the demand for mutual security as well – of course – and thus the outrage !!!!!
Let’s see whether the US is bestial enough to force Europe to burn in a tactical nuke war (when Finnland & Sweden join Nato, then this will be very probable) – it to commit economic suicide is already blindly executed by it’s Zombies – Crimes of the Century….
Wiretappers?
Mr. Putin has clearly stated Russian policy on multiple occasions in international forums.
The “Russia experts” at Langley etc., completely ignore these statements, go to a meeting somewhere to “negotiate” and insult Mr. Lavrov, then issue a bunch of nonsensical demands and return home.
And then they write articles in the Washington Post about how mysterious it all is, and how they have no idea what the Russians want…
Sad but true
Actually its a little funny.
They have the most extensive surveillance-, spy- and eavesdropping network and big data on the planet of people’s lives and thoughts, but are still not able to catch a simple “a spade is a spade”……………….LOL.
All the technic they have to controll the world is nothing compared to V.V. Putin’s love for Russia, the land and the people – nothing like the Russian Soul.
Undoubtedly the greatest statesman, not only at the moment when he has no competition, but of the century. May he live a long and healthy life because the world depends on him. Great speech.
I’m also very fond of Hassan Nasrallah leader of the lebanese hezbollah. These 2 men ate the greatest statesmen of this new millenium.
Have you watched the speech of Nasrallah in 2015 when he asks the saudi’s” where were you for…”
A truly shaking testimony. I have never been moved by a speech as i was with that one.
Cheers
Among the Great Patriotic War heroes he includes Sydor Kovpak. Not a casual choice: a Ukrainian who fought against both the Nazi invaders and the home-brewed nationalist Ukrainian insurgents.
(per wikki)
Kovpak was born to a poor peasant family in Kotelva village in Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine).[1] For his military service in World War I, he was awarded two Crosses of St. George personally by the Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (an award for exceptional military heroism). After the Russian Revolution he joined the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and fought for the Red Army partisan units against the German forces, as well as against Denikin’s White Army in a Vasily Chapayev’s cavalry division. In the interwar period he was a head of the local government in the town of Putyvl, Sumy Oblast (province).
World War II[edit]
At the time of the German invasion of Soviet Ukraine partisan units led by Sydir Kovpak waged guerrilla warfare against Axis forces originally in partisan strongholds in Sumy and Bryansk regions but later its operation spread deep into German-occupied territory including Kiev, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Homyel, Volyn and other regions. These partisan units also fought against the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
If the Anglo-Zionist Cabal had no idea what they’re up against, they do now.
We shall fight them on Twatter, Faceshaft, Gobble, CNN, Fox, BBC and the rest of our western propaganda outlets in the propaganda war . . . . . . we shall fight them in the Federal Reserve, IMF, BIS and ECB in our financial war . . . . . . . . . however, not in the field where we’ll get our asses handed to us on a plate but by backdoor proxy to the last Ukrainian.
sadly…Poland shows its true face? Rus Ambassador had red paint thrown at him whilst laying a wreath…a group of Ukrainians with flags got far too close…..seemed to be no crowd control. “Tacit “permission from police authorities?
OMG I can’t believe what I’m seeing.
A braying mob surrounded the ambassador, stole his wreath stolen and covered him in red paint.
Will Russia break off diplomatic relations?
Why did the Polish police not provide better protection?
Zakharova has strongly condemned this attack saying it is a result of the “re-incaranation of fascism” .
She also said “Russia was not scared but that the people of Europe should be scared to look in the mirror”…
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-poland-world-war-ii-89d8d75c04f54d03c9dc772cbd5e6517
Watched Putin’s speech on CNN. Comments were all hideous to the point of depravity eg. Bomb Red Square during his speech or give Putin the Gaddafi treatment.
@j lowrie
Please, now that you found “The Saker”, do not humiliate yourself by continuing watching CNN. As you probably know, they lost 30% of viewers as they constantly falsify reality to please their arrogant, racist sponsors…
One poll I read a few years ago from a Japanese Newspaper said 1/3 Americans were willing to nuke Japan again.
Dont make any mistake about being soft with the general American population. Ignorant people are those who make the worst of all atrocities.
Saw a video of US forces after a raid on two Vietnamese villages where everybody, child, elderly, women and young were wiped out and murdered in cold blood. The US force group who did it, went afterwards and had lunch, played cards, laughing and joking, as if nothing had happened. Just another day in the office.
This is what you get when a great Statesman shows up your own inadequacies.
Rather than recognise your limitations and try to improve your skillsets you feebly try and denigrate others, so no surprise here.
Yes that was terrible and yet the Russian ambassador stood his ground and showed restraint and courage. There definitely should have been security there agreed.
The man in the background holding an Ukranian flag is actually LAUGHING.
Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski has said that the pro-Ukraine protesters who threw red liquid at Sergey Andreyev, Russia’s ambassador to the country, in Warsaw had legitimate reasons to be angry at him.
Andreyev was attacked as he was about to lay flowers in honor of fallen Red Army soldiers on Monday, when Russia celebrated its victory over Nazi Germany and its allies in Europe.
“The gathering of opponents of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, where genocidal crimes are committed every day, was legal,” Kaminski wrote on Twitter. “The emotions of Ukrainian women, who took part in the protest and whose husbands are bravely fighting to defend their homeland, are understandable.”
The minister confirmed that Polish authorities had warned Russian diplomats not to partake in the traditional wreath-laying ceremony on Victory Day.
Ambassador Sergey Andreyev was attacked by protesters opposing Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine. He later said that the liquid was syrup and that he was unharmed. Moscow strongly condemned the incident, demanding that Poland arrange a new wreath-laying ceremony and guarantee security there.
Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, meanwhile, told reporters that the attack was “by all means regrettable” and “an incident that should not have happened.”
“Diplomats enjoy special protection regardless of the policies pursued by the governments they represent,” Rau said.
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Clearly a repudiation of history. How dare you honor those who sacrificed to end Hitler’s dynasty. As if to say we’re back and nastier than ever.
Polish people are inherently one of the most racist bunch of white people. I have seen it for decades in Canada. Many join the police force and take out their frustrations on coloured people. Until recently they were looked upon in Europe as stupid: the term ” dumb polack” comes to mind.
Now they want center stage and trying their best to satisfy they’re European/USA masters.
This racist attack on the Russian ambassador is an example of how low the West will go to bully Russians, residing in their countries. For years in North America, I have seen the racism and hatred against Chinese people, and now it is Russia’s turn. The sanctions, propaganda, intimidation of individual people and hiding behind civilians all part of a well orchestrated plan.
I predict that bombs will come reigning down as USA evacuates, much like they did in Afghanistan. They left the entire NATO to fend for themselves, and not one complaint. In fact all the destruction of the middle-east, causing millions to flee to Europe; no on ever asked the cause. That is the white world we live in today.
The Poles are begging on their knees to be the next clean up.
I count these people as suicidals like the foreign mercenaries who arrive in Ukraine. Its people who have no moral compass nor natural limits.
Meanwhile, opinion from various sources is that Poland is eyeing carving off a chunk of Ukraine for itself, since it still feels that to be Polish territory.
It was deliberately enabled by the Polish regime. Within a minute, the Ambassador was totally surrounded by Polish police forminga closed cordon. The police were there all the time. The Ukro-Nazis were allowed to do what they did with express permission of the Polish regime. This wasn’t just the Polish regime spitting on Russian memory, it was spitting on the memory of all who died fighting Nazism. Boycott all Polish products. Send an email to your local Polish embassy / consulate.
On the positive side, the Ambassador stayed his ground and wasn’t frightened of the mob. He did show concern for his wife(?). The guy has more balls than the whole Polish police system.
Haven’t seen the incident televised as yet but trouble should be pre-empted. Where were his minders Boris & Igor. Did they unholster their sidearms? From here on in tight security must be afforded to all foreign diplomats.
Please do not generalize, idiots are everywhere…..Recently Macron got it straight into the face with tomatoes I believe on the next day he got reelected. Not so long ago Merkel got beers spilled over her. Numerous other high brass politicians suffered other “assaults”. Calm down and simply face it. Part of the game, Russian ambassador must have known it and he took it on his chest. With pride and dignity, no histeric reaction, simply experienced this unpleasant moment. Life is a game, very often unpleasant and rough, but don’t we leave for those few thrills and breathes…????. Luckily for humankind we still have some statesmen who have lived up to the challenge. However I have an involuntary conjecture thinking we can only speak about them in signular not plural………………If you catch my drift…….Regards.
President Putin chose not to lower the solemn tone by simply attacking the Empire of Lies, but leaves us free to draw out for ourselves the implications also of his positive words when their opposites so clearly describe the Empire and its minions (and by this point minions is a good epithet.)
For example: US exceptionalism has denigrated the entire world (as well as their satellites, forced to obey at risk of regime change) but such moral degradation now seems set to cancel the millennia-old values of once great peoples and cultures the world over. Cowardly elites have betrayed love for their Motherlands, their faith and the traditional values of their peoples, terrified that international terrorist gangs would be used against them, and that US interests would seed inter-ethnic and religious strife to weaken them from within, dividing them in bloody internal conflict. This has been seen again and again, and when weaker countries dare to follow paths of benefit to their own peoples it is the standard playbook of the US Regime, hidden by smokescreens of Lies.
There must no longer be a place in the world for torturers, death squads and Nazis, all of which are sponsored by powerful interests lurking behind the figurehead of the US President and supported by prestitutes all over the supposedly “free world”. A red line had to be drawn.
This treachery against our common humanity, this disrespect for all peoples and cultures, must be eradicated – and Russia has once again shouldered the responsibility when all other diplomatic efforts had failed.
All of humanity is called upon to recognize the existential threat faced in the Ukraine for it transcends Nations, it is a threat against the Human soul itself, which knows right from wrong, and good from evil. The lessons of the Great War are being repeated. All who have ears must hear. Midnight is coming.
Very well put.
There are millions of people in the west who agree with you. The unelected people in leadership positions fear us.
In principle maybe, not backed up by any action . . . yet . . . unfortunately.
Поздравляем Великую русскую нацию и весь мир с этим историческим днем. Да Здравствует Россия.
machine translation:
Congratulations to the Great Russian nation and the world on this historic day. Long live Russia.
On Victory Day I think it’s important to see what Russians are talking about on SM. As I’ve said before it will take a generation to uproot nazism in Ukraine:
POWER IN TRUTH: At the end of February 2022, a new era began – the war with the West entered a hot phase, the stakes rose sharply… The confrontation between Russia and the West is increasingly becoming a sacred war – Good versus Evil, the Empire of Truth versus the Empire of Lies!
From Information Confrontation to the Strategy of Mental Security
And if the task of demilitarization of the territories of the former Ukrainian SSR is being solved quite successfully in a short time, the task of denazification has a completely different scale. The terms of denazification can in no way be less than one generation, which must be born, grow up and reach maturity under the conditions of denazification. The nazification of Ukraine continued for more than 30 years, starting at least from 1989, when Ukrainian nationalism received legal and legitimate forms of political self-expression. As a result, children who are Russian in culture and language turned out to be adherents of “political Ukrainianism”, Nazi ideas, ready to kill any manifestations of their native culture in themselves and around them, to become mankurts who do not remember kinship …
The essence of the ideology of the people’s empire, the ideology of ensuring the security of Russia, is the preservation and enhancement of the land and our people. This strategy was put forward by President V.V. Putin in the “National Security Strategy”, Presidential Addresses, is enshrined in amendments to the Constitution.
To build a people’s empire is Fate, a difficult but great Common cause.
How to win the information war with the West, how to ensure the development of the country and the unity of the society, what and whom to rely on, who and what hinders? About this our material …
ONE OF THE CONCLUSIONS: To ensure the security of the Russian Federation, it is necessary to develop and implement a strategy for the mental security of the entire society and the individual!
So let’s win!
More details in PG: https://www.pnp.ru/politics/sila-v-pravde.html
“Dear veterans,
Comrade soldiers and seamen, sergeants and sergeant majors, midshipmen and warrant officers,
Comrade officers, generals and admirals,”
I just love the order of addressing people. Even if it were a political correctness Russian version (which I don’t believe) it is nice to se order of importance.
Certainly a nice change from
Dear Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, queers …
Hold everything! Stunning news: it appears that it was not the Russians/Soviets who liberated Europe but the Ukrainians!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPD4TgDqrt8
Wonder where this was filmed. All the signs are in English and the cars are driving on the left side of the road, but it’s too tropical to be in Britain Any ideas?
cyprus
Operation Z is the first salvo of a titanic struggle: three decades after the fall of the USSR, and 77 years after the end of WWII, after careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the “indispensable nation”. No wonder the Empire of Lies has gone completely berserk, obsessed in completely expelling Russia from the West-centric system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Zr1O-H74M
Happy Victory Day from Zone A. My Hearth and Soul is with the Russian people.
The greatest respect for Russia and its role to save our civilizations (which might be suppressed by evil but is still very much alive, also in the west).
I see these marching soldiers as protectors, also of our cultures (unless our clowns-gone-mad governments lead us into lethal confrontation…).
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But almost off topic: The music during the parade should be considered as one of the most high end martial classical performances in history. It is really worth to watch a youtube version without comments and conversation…
Do you have a link?
A truly great speech. Every sentence, every word – perfect.
“But we are a different country. Russia has a different character. We will never give up our love for our Motherland, our faith and traditional values, our ancestors’ customs and respect for all peoples and cultures.”
Our faith, our faith in God Almighty. A common ground Christians, Muslims and Hebrews share in the multiethnic, sacred land called Russia.
God’s logos must be preserved as it has been for over a millennia. It is the genesis, the divine seed that inspires the elements of sacrifice, devotion and compassion expected from all of us who stand in our churches, mosques and synagogues. The spiritual thread that weaves the people together cannot be diluted by mammon’s lust for material possession and the bloodletting that accompanies it.
The plan to exploit God’s gifts to Russia goes beyond the theft of her land and natural resources, the erasure of a thousand years of culture and enslavement of her people. It is to crush our faith into oblivion, to wipe it away from the minds of us who walk the narrow and arduous path to stand before God on Judgment Day and plead for his mercy.
Russia must always be on her guard for Satan is relentless in his quest to exalt himself above our heavenly Father. Woe is he for he will fail as long as the people cherish their forefather’s legacy, they who held the candle of light against the darkness and persevered.
May 9 is a day of remembrance when children and grandchildren gather together to listen to the stories told by their dedushkas and babushkas of the brave men and women who stood tall for the Motherland. It is these times that must not be forgotten for we glorify God when evil is exposed and give thanks to the creator of us all, who we love, obey and fear his wrath should we succumb to the temptation of sin.
Immense gratitude and eternal memory tonthe heroes!
Slava Rossiya !
Re: “There is no family in Russia that was not burnt by the Great Patriotic War. Its memory never fades.”
Americans cannot even remember last week. Bread and Circuses.
As David Bowie sang decades ago:
Do you remember your President Nixon?
Do you remember the bills you have to pay?
Or even yesterday?
To talk to the average American about even a relatively recent seminal event like 9/11 is to get either a blank stare or, at best, a regurgitation of some MSM/CIA talking point. If you talk about WWII you might as well be talking about the stone age. The term “Nazi” is tossed about without any understanding whatsoever of who they really were (ask any American: “Who was Heinrich Himmler?” – blank stare). And to compare the enemy du jour to Hitler (now reduced to an evil cartoon character) is a MSM staple.
In the case of Ukraine, I would wager that 90% of Americans could not find it on a map. For that matter, they couldn’t find the United States on a map. Indeed, the only map they may ever look at is on their phone when they get directions to the nearest Starbucks.
Our public schools are turning out functional illiterates and even our best universities have become bastions of the crackpot “woke” blather. This brain rot has seeped into corporate America as the brainwashed graduates move out into the world; likewise it has infected the U.S. government and military. It is clearly unsustainable since it is completely unhinged from reality, thus the downward spiral in which we now find ourselves. There are mindless millions staring into their phones or taking “selfies” to post on social media, in the pathetic hope of generating “likes” in order to validate their otherwise meaningless existence. Ask them about the last book they read and they’ll scratch their heads trying to remember that one book they were forced to read in their high school English class. The government is run by what Kurt Vonnegut called “upper crust C-students who know no history or geography”.
Russia doesn’t need to attack us. We are destroying ourselves. I only hope that there are enough true American patriots left to save us before the mental midgets in power decide that a kinetic war with Russia is a good idea. Dear God, there has to be someone with a functioning brain left in our government!
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“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
–President Abraham Lincoln, The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions:
Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois
January 27, 1838
You can also ask them who nuked Japan…
The following nations are the most zombified –
1) America
2) Japan
3) Canada
4) Germany
5) UK
6) Australia
7) Poland
8) South Korea
9) Romania
10) Czech
After posting this I’m going to count the number of military bases this motley crew have combined. I’m expecting a correlation here between subservience, intimidation & stupidity.
This said, there’s a decent core of people in each of these countries who are aware of what’s going on, coupled with the majority who don’t have the wherewithal to care, indifferent. In essence I’m saying it is the political class & elite who’ve been captured.
As Noam Chomsky wrote: “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” We have been beaten senseless by a steady diet of increasingly sophisticated propaganda for many decades. Where that fails, they implement “fact checkers” to ferret out “misinformation” on compliant social media platforms, aka the de facto public squares. Conformity to Big Brother’s latest utterance is demanded, lest one be cancelled. There is pushback, but as to whether it can overcome the onslaught of the MSM/Big Tech/Security State is an open question.
I think that’s unfair to S. Korea. They’re under occupation. And they not so long ago ran a president out of office with nothing but peaceful protest. They regularly protest against US military behavior in their country but get overruled because they’re under occupation. They don’t even have command and control of their own military. Plus a US sponsored dictatorship ran until the 90’s.
Japan is also an occupied nation, and it appears that they have to be very careful what is allowed to appear in the press, especially during prime time. Most of the citizens don’t care about anything that happens beyond a narrow circle of friends and family, but that is mostly because they perceive, correctly, that they have no power whatsoever over events at the official level. I think it took them only a few years during the late forties to realize that the “democracy” they’d been gifted was basically useless. Among those who do care about international events, my impression is it is split roughly half and half between those who still think America is a force for the good and those who do not. There is widespread recognition that the TV is unable to present a fully honest picture of reality.
The common struggle then
must be carried forward
here in America (US).
We Resist!
Something’s happening in the Severodonetsk bulge right now.
Mainstream media is reporting Russian advances and Ukrainian retreats. It’s extremely rare that Western media would admit such a thing. That’s a clue that something good is probably happening for Russia.
I’m giving you guys the heads up in case you haven’t yet seen these reports. I hope they’re true.
In the first 5 months of the German invasion of the Russian led Soviet Union, the Soviets took almost 5 million casualties, lost 10-15,000 planes (by the most conservative estimates) as well as 20,000 tanks, half-tracks, APCs and other armored vehicles.
Read that again. The Soviets Lost that amount in the first 5 months of a 4 year long war.
Any military analyst of intelligence, from ANY era throughout history would look at such numbers and declare it a complete annihilation of the Soviet forces, and a total victory for the Germans. It would have been inconceivable that a nation takes such monstrous losses and be able to survive intact, as anything other than a shadow of it’s previous self, and prior to 1941 this would have been a fact.
The Russian led Soviets should have lost badly. The Russian led Soviets should have been annihilated, their lands west of the Urals seized, and a vast majority of their European populations either exterminated or exiled into the frozen wastes of Siberia. There should NOT be a single Slav left alive west of the Ural mountains today.
Prior to 1941 everything that I’ve written above should have happened, but it didn’t. Instead, the righteous masses lunged headlong into the meat grinder, into the fire, into hell itself, and in the process broke the back of the greatest evil the modern world had ever seen.
The identity of the Germans in the period from 1933-1945 can best be seen in the propaganda film “Triumph of the will”, where the Nazis saw themselves as an unshakeable force, on a mandate from heaven, to cleanse the earth of the lesser races and to establish a utopia which would rule the human species for the next millennium. They thought themselves to be the purest and most absolute example of what the human will can accomplish. They thought themselves to be perfect and unstoppable.
Unfortunately for the Nazis, they did not know what will, true will was. They did not understand that their role in this world was not to display that absolute apex of the human will. No, their role was to act as the catalyst for the expression of such a will.
Through their barbarity, arrogance and racial absolutism, the Nazis awakened within the Russian led Soviets that purest form of will. They awakened a power which has rarely been seen in world history. That urge to not only take one knock out blow after another and not go down, but to use the devastation being leveled against you as a source of limitless energy and power, to not only smile in his face, showing him that his “greatness” is nothing but an illusion, but to also hit back in such a way so as to break him down in the most absolute way imaginable.
Removed. Mod.
I thank those immortal masses who in the span of 4 devastating years decided to march uncompromisingly into eternity, just to guarantee that a thankless, ungrateful world continued to exist. They showed humanity the meaning of true will, and nothing can ever degrade or distort that simple fact.
Well written and moving comment. Bravo!.
I would just add that we would do well to remember its wasn’t just the Germans who invaded Russia. They were joined by many other European countries in significant numbers, including in SS Divisions. Those same European countries would do well to reflect on their past instead of watching as their leaders make their way to Kiev to kiss Elensky’s ring.
I second your comment.
Obrigado de Portugal 🇵🇹
Video of the entire proceedings in Red square, including President Putin’s speech. (1hour16mins)
No one does it like the Russians !
Pobeda!
https://ria.ru/20220509/parad-1787508048.html
Most Enjoyable Kempston.
A united Russia is indomitable force.
It’s no wonder the fading empire wish to break it up into pieces, divide & conquer.
Their hubris or desperation will get us all killed unless we Euro-lemmings do something about it ourselves.
Congratulations to the Russian people on your Victory Day!
Another excellent speech by Putin. Clear, concise, affirmative and very assuring speech as always.
Notice that he could march with the Immortal Regiment without being surrounded by bodyguards. How many Western leaders would dare walk among over a million of the serfs they so look down on without an army of hired muscle?
Also Putin seems to be doing quite well for someone who has “Parkinsons”, “dementia” and “cancer” all at the same time. Then again, if Putin has dementia and Biden definitely doesn’t then I’d probably prefer to take the dementia too.
VVP was surrounded by bodyguards, although instead of the highly visible thugs of the POTUS, they are discreet.
I also think I detect a bullet proof jacket under VVPs coat.
Thank goodness. He’s no dummy!
Dont forget Shoigu got a heavy heart attack after Putin called him a complete idiot after a briefing of his handling of the first two month of the Ukrainian war :-D.
“In their final report to Stalin, Lieut-General Rokossovsky and his chief of staff, Lieut-General Malinin wrote: ‘Carrying out your order, the troops of the Don Front at 4 p.m. on February 2, 1943, completed the rout and destruction of the encircled group of enemy forces at Stalingrad. Twenty-two divisions have been destroyed or taken prisoner…. The military operation in the city and area of Stalingrad have ceased.’
“Russia was not noisily exultant, but happy, truly happy for the first time since the war had began. Now everybody knew that victory would come. There was a feeling of deep, but not vociferous national pride; it was clear at last that all the sufferings and hardships and loss of life had not been in vain. And it was a thousand times right that the Germans should now proclaim their three days of National Mourning, a humiliation the Nazi Government and the German people had so amply deserved.
“No one doubted that this was turning point in World War II.”
— Russia at War, 1941-1945 © 1964 Alexander Wirth, pp.542-543 [English translation © 1917 Skyhorse Publishing]
Сила, честь и победа!
Congratulations to all on this Day of Victory!
Back in the 17th century John Wilmot, the notorious Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) summed up Russia’s problem in 2020:
“Mankind’s dishonest; if you think it fair
Amongst known cheats to play upon the square,
You’ll be undone.
“Nor can weak truth your reputation save:
The knaves will all agree to call you knave.
Wronged shall he live, insulted o’er, oppressed,
Who dares be less a villain than the rest”.
wonderful celebration of Russia’s WW2 victory, heroism, bravery, perseverance, and everything that goes with it. Your nation carries the hopes, memories, and prayers of all anti-Nazis and anti-fascists, living and dead. Much of remaining descendants have forgotten about the tremendous effort of Russia in those fateful days an years. However, Russia leads those who haven’t forgot and still carry the torch of peace, freedom and Justice andbear the sacrifices. You will prevail.
The words of Edgar Cayce from almost 90 years ago, delivered in trance state to questions asked are very interesting:
https://www.edgarcayce.org/about-us/blog/blog-posts/out-of-russia-will-come-hope/
“What then of nations? In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the Communistic, of the Bolshevistic; no. But freedom, freedom! that each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallized, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.”
Somehow the USA needs a Revolution (peaceful or otherwise) to join Russia in creating a better future for all. As Cayce went on to describe this if “supernatural forces” interfering in financial power structures could be defeated.
Worth reading at that link.
God Bless you President Putin from Ireland
I”m not surprised for Scandinavians. Especially Sweden has been Europe’s biggest nazi den, post-WWII. Along with Norway, they’ve been the biggest NWO cheerleaders the last decades (transhumanism etc. – in general theosophy crap, also!). Pity about Finland, they should break free from Sweden’s poisonous influence at some point.
Bulgaria, Greece, most strongly supportive of Russia. Good!
“In Scandinavia, the UK, Poland and the Netherlands more than 70% of people make Russia primarily responsible. However, in Bulgaria and Greece a majority believe that either NATO is responsible or both NATO and Russia equally. The majority of people in Slovakia and Hungary also do not agree that the war is mostly Russia’s responsibility.
A similar picture emerges when people are asked directly about the European Union’s relationship with Russia. While a majority of people suggest that European countries should invest in defense and security rather than trade and diplomacy with Russia – a view that has increased heavily over the last months – more people in Bulgaria, Greece, Slovakia and Hungary take the opposite view. There people prefer diplomacy and trade with Russia over investing in defense.
These findings indicate that the European publics are more divided than current discourse about unified European responses towards the war in Ukraine would lead one to believe.”
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/articles-reports/2022/05/05/support-ukraine-strong-europe-nations-are-not-unit
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that president Putin is the best leader in the world today. His honesty and integrity are breathtaking. Our best hope, here in America, for a leader of Putin’s caliber is Tulsi Gabbard. She has the same kind of down to earth common sense that president Putin has. I certainly hope she runs in our next presidential race. It would be wonderful to have a leader like her, here in America, who pursues peace between peoples and between nations.
As a Reagan Republican I surely miss the 1980’s when the world was moving on the right track with Reagan and Gorbachev putting an end to the costly and divisive cold war. But the presidents who followed Reagan in the White House unfortunately reversed course and reanimated the cold war. Hopefully, either Tulsi Gabbard, or some other sensible leader, will take over the executive branch in 2024 and move us towards peaceful relations with all other countries in the world. It would be so nice to get back to friendship and cooperation with Russia in all areas, and work together with other nations to solve the various problems facing humanity.
Seen from outside (Europe), I see America as lost.
The Presidential hopes (Trump, whoever) always turn out as fakes and false hopes because the whole system, institutions, universities, schools, states, MIC, health, MSM, stock trade, churches, all are so systematical rotten and corrupt.
I see only an internal purge, clean up as the only solution. Close the borders and country for a decade or two.
Any overseas cooperation with US will end in the same bs and falsehood for many decades to come. Its a virus, a really bad virus.
@David
Tulsi Gabbard will never be allowed to pass the primaries in any American election, because she seems to have a mind of her own, and she will not be totally submissive to the Deep State…Only people like Biden, Pelosi, Obama Harris are the “chosen ones”, they have the right personality and pass the test.
“Our best hope, here in America, for a leader of Putin’s caliber is Tulsi Gabbard.”
Should Trump run with her as VP notwithstanding she is a Democrat? (Great ticket; he blew it with Pence; he needs to make a great contribution since the ones chosen become presidents later; she would need to praise him though, and he lacks the eye for it.)
Wonderful speech! I am using it in my English class today.
I told the one relative who still listens to me not to expect any declaration of full war from Putin, but for the press to undertake pains to find a molehill to make a mountain out of. And sure enough. I’ll make sure my students get a chance to consider what he actually said in some of the key paragraphs.
World’s largest ribbon of St. George (400 meters) was deployed today in Mariupol liberated from Bandera in honor of Victory Day‼️
https://twitter.com/SlavFreeSpirit/status/1523685521612218369
May Russia prevail against her corrupt, greedy, murderous enemies, and may the Empire of Lies be brought crashing down.
E ai Pepe, China está segurando os microships e Rússia com o gás em Rublos, foi cheke mate, a cabou o blefe do Bidem? Será q o imperio cai, vai levar o Brasil junto? abraço
What about Pepe, China is holding the microchips and Russia with gas in rubles, was it checkmate, did Bidem’s bluff call? Will the empire fall, will it take Brazil with it? hug
What a perfect speech.
Russia is the hope of the world.
Help the resistance nations.
Denazify the world.
The ‘resistance nations’ should be preparing soldiers to fight against Nazism in Ukraine, to finish this war as soon as possible. If I were in conditions to do so, I would be a volunteer.
The people of the southeastern city of Kherson celebrated their recent liberation from Maidanite/Banderite fascism and the Victory Day holiday today. A video of the rally is available in the link below:
https://en.news-front.info/2022/05/09/the-russian-anthem-is-played-on-the-walk-of-fame-in-kherson-to-celebrate-victory-day/
In fact, people throughout the liberated parts of the Donbass and the southeastern Ukraine celebrated in the streets today. I saw so many videos and pictures from different towns and cities that I can not post links to them all here. I also read that solidarity rallies in support of Victory Day were held in both Cuba and Venezuela (and probably also in other countries led by various anti-imperialist governments).
A massive 300 meter Saint George ribbon was displayed in Mariupol:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/mariupol-vday:9
The US Could’ve Prevented This War Just By Protecting Kyiv From Nazis – May 8, 2022
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-us-couldve-prevented-this-war?r=byea&utm_medium=ios&s=r
Instead, Biden and his DNC cabal have maximally supported Ukraine Nazis for eight (8) full years while imposing total censorship in the US.
Biden is utterly corrupt war criminal – although senile he is so amoral as if he came from another planet. Trump, although comical and incompetent, was a much more normal and relatable person.
The original modern sin – the immense DNC-Deep state Russia-gate hoax led directly to the bipartisan US War uniparty to proxy war. For decades every Russian politician warned unsuccessfully about relentless NATO expansion….
In the end, Putin is the only humane and normal political leader in this proxy war against capitalist Russia.
Scott Ritter; Ukraine, Finland and Nato, a Warning to the People of Finland – May 8, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciUNBIKNxMw
Great speech! Godspeed stomping out Nazism in Uke.
“On this day, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes march in an endless flow of the Immortal Regiment. They carry photos of their family members, the fallen soldiers who remained young forever, and the veterans who are already gone.”
I heard of this march but didn’t know this is what it was. What an idea, very touching. Great tribute to all those who died for them, really.
Forget politics for a moment. I wish Russia and all Russians the best on their Victory Day. Your grandfathers’ valiant efforts saved the world from darkness.
Un discurso preciso y directo. Aquellos de nosotros que no queremos colonizadores, estamos con Rusia.
A precise and direct speech. Those of us who do not want colonizers, we are with Russia.
Very poignant and very pertinent to the day:
“An Open Letter to the American People, as Russia Celebrates its WW2 Victory Over the Nazis”
by Scott Ritter
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/05/09/an-open-letter-to-the-american-people-as-russia-celebrates-its-ww2-victory-over-the-nazis/
American Citizen but my soul is Russian. Some day my wife (Russian citizen) and I will make it home. I had my own parade today. Blasted Stavai Strana Ogromnaya with the windows down and sunroof open driving through downtown. Also Russian Soldier Saved the world, among others. I dream to shake the hand of the great leader Vladimir Putin. God bless Russia and send her a speedy victory. Amin
Glory to our heroic Armed Forces!
For Russia! For Victory!
Hooray!
I salute to Russia and your great leader, Mr Putin! The Best the world has even seen!
My heart and soul is with you all, May the God above bless you and watch over you!
What I would give to die on your soil, instead of this filthy land I used to call home, Australia the biggest whore in the Southern Hemisphere, there is no truth here, no justice, just lies and deceit.
My love to all Russians.
“What I would give to die on your soil, instead of this filthy land I used to call home, Australia the biggest whore in the Southern Hemisphere, there is no truth here, no justice, just lies and deceit.”
You are right because one can know it from very far away, too, and feel like you’re perfectly understood, but then you must understand also from there the political drama of the candidates that surrounded us here, Romney-Hillary-Obama-Hillary-Trump-Biden-Harris. I know it’s serious but it’s funny how you put it. I got to know Australia during the Covid crisis, I think. It’s funny when the three cousins – England, Australia and “America” – get together against someone.
American citizen too.
But after I saw Shoigu sending Kalibr missiles from the Caspian Sea into Syria, Avangard missile circulating around all our defences, Putin visiting all Russia’s goldmines in Siberia plus a graph over our own deep black debt hole, I realized I have always been a 100% Russian deep deep at the bottom of my heart.
All the best to everybody and long live the King!
… and here is the original text of the speech in Russian:
Уважаемые граждане России!
Дорогие ветераны!
Товарищи солдаты и матросы, сержанты и старшины, мичманы и прапорщики!
Товарищи офицеры, генералы и адмиралы!
Поздравляю вас с Днем Великой Победы!
Защита Родины, когда решалась её судьба, всегда была священной. С такими чувствами подлинного патриотизма поднимались за Отечество ополченцы Минина и Пожарского, шли в атаку на Бородинском поле, бились с врагом под Москвой и Ленинградом, Киевом и Минском, Сталинградом и Курском, Севастополем и Харьковом.
Так и сейчас, в эти дни вы сражаетесь за наших людей на Донбассе. За безопасность нашей Родины – России.
9 мая 1945 года навеки вписано в мировую историю как триумф нашего единого советского народа, его сплочённости и духовной мощи, беспримерного подвига на фронте и в тылу.
День Победы близок и дорог каждому из нас. В России нет семьи, которую бы не опалила Великая Отечественная война. Память о ней не меркнет. В этот день в нескончаемом потоке «Бессмертного полка» – дети, внуки и правнуки героев Великой Отечественной. Они несут фотографии своих родных, погибших солдат, которые навеки остались молодыми, и уже ушедших от нас ветеранов.
Мы гордимся непокорённым, доблестным поколением победителей, тем, что мы их наследники, и наш долг – хранить память о тех, кто сокрушил нацизм, кто завещал нам быть бдительными и сделать все, чтобы ужас глобальной войны не повторился.
И потому, несмотря на все разногласия в международных отношениях, Россия всегда выступала за создание системы равной и неделимой безопасности, системы, которая жизненно необходима всему мировому сообществу.
В декабре прошлого года мы предложили заключить договор о гарантиях безопасности. Россия призывала Запад к честному диалогу, к поиску разумных, компромиссных решений, к учёту интересов друг друга. Все напрасно. Страны НАТО не захотели нас услышать, а это значит, что на самом деле у них были совершенно другие планы. И мы это видели.
В открытую шла подготовка к очередной карательной операции на Донбассе, к вторжению на наши исторические земли, включая Крым. В Киеве заявляли о возможном приобретении ядерного оружия. Блок НАТО начал активное военное освоение прилегающих к нам территорий.
Таким образом, планомерно создавалась абсолютно неприемлемая для нас угроза, причём непосредственно у наших границ. Всё говорило о том, что столкновение с неонацистами, бандеровцами, на которых США и их младшие компаньоны сделали ставку, будет неизбежным.
Повторю, мы видели, как разворачивается военная инфраструктура, как начали работать сотни зарубежных советников, шли регулярные поставки самого современного оружия из стран НАТО. Опасность росла с каждым днем.
Россия дала упреждающий отпор агрессии. Это было вынужденное, своевременное и единственно правильное решение. Решение суверенной, сильной, самостоятельной страны.
Соединённые Штаты Америки, особенно после распада Советского Союза, заговорили о своей исключительности, унижая тем самым не только весь мир, но и своих сателлитов, которым приходится делать вид, что они ничего не замечают, и покорно всё это проглатывать.
Но мы другая страна. У России другой характер. Мы никогда не откажемся от любви к Родине, от веры и традиционных ценностей, от обычаев предков, от уважения ко всем народам и культурам.
А на Западе эти тысячелетние ценности, судя по всему, решили отменить. Такая нравственная деградация стала основой циничных фальсификаций истории Второй мировой, разжигания русофобии, восхваления предателей, издевательства над памятью их жертв, перечеркивания мужества тех, кто добыл и выстрадал Победу.
Нам известно, что американским ветеранам, которые хотели приехать на парад в Москву, фактически запретили это делать. Но хочу, чтобы они знали: мы гордимся вашими подвигами, вашим вкладом в общую Победу.
Мы чтим всех воинов союзнических армий – американцев, англичан, французов, – участников Сопротивления, отважных солдат и партизан Китая – всех, кто разгромил нацизм и милитаризм.
Уважаемые товарищи!
Сегодня ополченцы Донбасса, вместе с бойцами Армии России сражаются на своей земле, где разили врага дружинники Святослава и Владимира Мономаха, солдаты Румянцева и Потёмкина, Суворова и Брусилова, где насмерть стояли герои Великой Отечественной войны – Николай Ватутин, Сидор Ковпак, Людмила Павличенко.
Обращаюсь сейчас к нашим Вооружённым Силам и к ополченцам Донбасса. Вы сражаетесь за Родину, за её будущее, за то, чтобы никто не забыл уроков Второй мировой. Чтобы в мире не было места палачам, карателям и нацистам.
Сегодня мы склоняем головы перед светлой памятью всех, чью жизнь отняла Великая Отечественная война, перед памятью сынов, дочерей, отцов, матерей, дедов, мужей, жен, братьев, сестер, родных, друзей.
Мы склоняем головы перед памятью мучеников Одессы, заживо сожжённых в Доме профсоюзов в мае 2014 года. Перед памятью стариков, женщин и детей Донбасса, мирных жителей, которые погибли от безжалостных обстрелов, варварских ударов неонацистов. Мы склоняем головы перед нашими боевыми товарищами, которые пали смертью храбрых в праведном бою – за Россию.
Объявляется минута молчания.(Минута молчания.)
Гибель каждого нашего солдата и офицера – это горе для всех нас и невосполнимая утрата для родных и близких. Государство, регионы, предприятия, общественные организации сделают всё, чтобы окружить заботой такие семьи, помочь им. Особую поддержку окажем детям погибших и раненых боевых товарищей. Указ Президента об этом сегодня подписан.
Скорейшего выздоровления желаю раненым солдатам и офицерам. И благодарю врачей, фельдшеров, медсестёр, медицинский персонал военных госпиталей за самоотверженную работу. Низкий поклон вам за то, что боретесь за каждую жизнь – часто под обстрелом, на передовой, не жалея себя.
Уважаемые товарищи!
Сейчас здесь, на Красной площади, плечом к плечу стоят солдаты и офицеры из многих регионов нашей огромной Родины, в том числе те, кто прибыл прямо из Донбасса, непосредственно из зоны боевых действий.
Мы помним, как враги России пытались использовать против нас банды международных террористов, стремились посеять национальную и религиозную вражду, чтобы изнутри ослабить, расколоть нас. Ничего не получилось.
Сегодня наши бойцы разных национальностей вместе в бою, прикрывают друг друга от пуль и осколков как братья.
И в этом сила России, великая, несокрушимая сила нашего единого многонационального народа.
Сегодня вы защищаете то, за что сражались отцы и деды, прадеды. Для них высшим смыслом жизни всегда были благополучие и безопасность Родины. И для нас, их наследников, преданность Отчизне – главная ценность, надёжная опора независимости России.
Те, кто сокрушил нацизм в годы Великой Отечественной войны, показали нам пример героизма на все времена. Это поколение победителей, и мы всегда будем равняться на них.
Слава нашим доблестным Вооруженным Силам!
За Россию! За Победу!
Ура!
Dear citizens of Russia!
Dear veterans!
Comrade soldiers and sailors, sergeants and foremen, midshipmen and ensigns!
Comrade officers, generals and admirals!
I congratulate you on the Great Victory Day!
The defense of the Motherland, when its fate was being decided, has always been sacred. With such feelings of genuine patriotism, the militia of Minin and Pozharsky rose for the Fatherland, went on the attack on the Borodino field, fought the enemy near Moscow and Leningrad, Kyiv and Minsk, Stalingrad and Kursk, Sevastopol and Kharkov.
So now, these days you are fighting for our people in the Donbass. For the security of our Motherland – Russia.
May 9, 1945 is forever inscribed in world history as a triumph of our united Soviet people, their unity and spiritual power, an unparalleled feat at the front and in the rear.
Victory Day is near and dear to each of us. There is no family in Russia that was not scorched by the Great Patriotic War. Her memory never fades. On this day, in the endless stream of the “Immortal Regiment” – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. They carry photographs of their relatives, fallen soldiers who have remained forever young, and veterans who have already left us.
We are proud of the unconquered, valiant generation of victors, that we are their heirs, and it is our duty to keep the memory of those who crushed Nazism, who bequeathed us to be vigilant and do everything so that the horror of a global war does not happen again.
And therefore, despite all the disagreements in international relations, Russia has always advocated the creation of a system of equal and indivisible security, a system that is vital for the entire world community.
In December last year, we proposed to conclude an agreement on security guarantees. Russia called on the West to an honest dialogue, to search for reasonable, compromise solutions, to take into account each other’s interests. All in vain. The NATO countries did not want to hear us, which means that in fact they had completely different plans. And we saw it.
Openly, preparations were underway for another punitive operation in the Donbass, for an invasion of our historical lands, including Crimea. In Kyiv, they announced the possible acquisition of nuclear weapons. The NATO bloc has begun active military development of the territories adjacent to us.
Thus, a threat absolutely unacceptable to us was systematically created, moreover, directly at our borders. Everything indicated that a clash with neo-Nazis, Bandera, on whom the United States and their younger partners staked, would be inevitable.
I repeat, we saw how the military infrastructure is being developed, how hundreds of foreign advisers began to work, there were regular deliveries of the most modern weapons from NATO countries. The danger grew every day.
Russia gave a preemptive rebuff to aggression. It was a forced, timely and only right decision. The decision of a sovereign, strong, independent country.
The United States of America, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, started talking about its exclusivity, thereby humiliating not only the whole world, but also its satellites, who have to pretend that they do not notice anything and meekly swallow it all.
But we are a different country. Russia has a different character. We will never give up love for the Motherland, faith and traditional values, the customs of our ancestors, respect for all peoples and cultures.
And in the West, these thousand-year-old values, apparently, have decided to cancel. Such moral degradation became the basis for cynical falsifications of the history of the Second World War, inciting Russophobia, praising traitors, mocking the memory of their victims, canceling out the courage of those who won and suffered the Victory.
We know that American veterans who wanted to come to the parade in Moscow were effectively banned from doing so. But I want them to know that we are proud of your exploits, your contribution to the common Victory.
We honor all the soldiers of the allied armies – the Americans, the British, the French – the participants of the Resistance, the brave soldiers and partisans of China – all those who defeated Nazism and militarism.
Dear comrades!
Today, the militia of Donbass, together with the fighters of the Russian Army, are fighting on their own land, where the combatants of Svyatoslav and Vladimir Monomakh, the soldiers of Rumyantsev and Potemkin, Suvorov and Brusilov, fought the enemy, where the heroes of the Great Patriotic War – Nikolai Vatutin, Sidor Kovpak, Lyudmila Pavlichenko fought to the death.
I am now addressing our Armed Forces and the Donbass militia. You are fighting for the Motherland, for its future, so that no one forgets the lessons of the Second World War. So that there is no place in the world for executioners, punishers and Nazis.
Today we bow our heads before the bright memory of all whose lives were taken by the Great Patriotic War, before the memory of sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, relatives, friends.
We bow our heads before the memory of the martyrs of Odessa, who were burned alive in the House of Trade Unions in May 2014. Before the memory of the elderly, women and children of Donbass, civilians who died from ruthless shelling, barbaric strikes of neo-Nazis. We bow our heads before our comrades-in-arms, who died the death of the brave in a righteous battle – for Russia.
A minute of silence is announced. (A minute of silence.)
The death of each of our soldiers and officers is grief for all of us and an irreparable loss for relatives and friends. The state, regions, enterprises, public organizations will do everything to provide such families with care and help them. We will provide special support to the children of the dead and wounded comrades. The Decree of the President on this was signed today.
I wish the wounded soldiers and officers a speedy recovery. And I thank the doctors, paramedics, nurses, medical staff of military hospitals for their selfless work. A deep bow to you for fighting for every life – often under fire, on the front line, not sparing yourself.
Dear comrades!
Now here, on Red Square, soldiers and officers from many regions of our vast Motherland stand shoulder to shoulder, including those who arrived directly from the Donbass, directly from the combat zone.
We remember how Russia’s enemies tried to use bands of international terrorists against us, tried to sow national and religious enmity in order to weaken and split us from within. Nothing succeeded.
Today, our fighters of different nationalities are together in battle, covering each other from bullets and shrapnel like brothers.
And this is the strength of Russia, the great, indestructible strength of our united multinational people.
Today you are defending what your fathers and grandfathers, great-grandfathers fought for. For them, the highest meaning of life has always been the well-being and security of the Motherland. And for us, their heirs, devotion to the Fatherland is the main value, a reliable support for the independence of Russia.
Those who crushed Nazism during the Great Patriotic War showed us an example of heroism for all time. This generation of winners, and we will always look up to them.
Glory to our valiant Armed Forces!
For Russia! For victory!
Hooray!
I’ll note that the “experts” at SST confidently predicted that Putin would do many things prior to and during his speech.
Pat Lang put his analytical skills to the task and came to the conclusion that Putin would drop a mini-nuke on the Azovsteel plant (!!!) so that the Kremlin could declare victory and go home.
TTG predicted that Putin would issue a formal declaration of war and then order a mass mobilization of reservists.
Nope. Nope, and….. nope.
These are supposed to be experts.
Yet their predictions ran up a score of “none from three”, which in baseball terms would be “three strikes and yer’ out”.
It makes you wonder if they have the slightest idea what the f**k they are talking about, and whether or not the basic assumptions that underpin their understanding of this conflict are correct.
Because looking at the predictive value of those assumptions the answer appears to be: no, no, and… no.
In South Africa, we are left wondering on which world our analysts live. Because it isn’t this one. They believe that Russia is running out of fuel…
Their only information comes from BBC and CNN. And the country believes them because they are the “experts”.
It is pathetic. And it is due to the lack of knowledge that we will end up in more wars, including world war 3.
Well said and so true…
“Pre-emption.”
The lesson of Barbarossa has not been lost.
Zone A is totally lost, people here are delusional. What can those who still have some sanity do here, not being Russian, not being able to migrate due to age? Please, can anybody here give me suggestions?
Thank you Mr. Putin and mother Russia for standing up against terrorism from the West, while at the same time, making war as honourable as possible. P.s. I’m from Australia.
and yet the CCCP was magnificently ready on june 21th 1941: The battle of smolensk lasted two full months (july+august 1941) and, e.g., the vatican’s diplomatic traffic already in late summer 1941 talks about germany going to lose the war bcse of those two months. Read d.glantz’ “smolensk” and annie lacroix-riz’s “Le Vatican, l’Europe et le Reich”, p. 531-532 (cable of 4 september 1941). And the frogs’ traitorous military brass reached the same conclusion already in late july 41. See annie lacroix-riz’s “Les élites françaises, 1940-1944. De la collaboration avec l’Allemagne à l’alliance américaine,” p. 245-246. COMPARE TO: the 20 days that france “resisted” in 1940.
Look like sensible people at the parade there, unlike many in the west particularly those in Washington DC.
From Otto Skorzeny’s book, “My Commando Operations” (1975):
“…from common soldier to company commander the Russian soldiers were the equal of the German. Brave, tough, and with an outstanding sense for camouflage, they put up astonishingly bitter resistance and walked en masse and with unbelievable fatalism into certain death.”
“…the Russian commanding officers, from division generals down, were good, younger and more determined than ours. Besides the Russian soldier was outstanding.”
Russia: “Because of the weather conditions the air portion of Victory Day events had to be canceled”.
As someone who watched the parade I can affirm that the skies didn’t look good for flying. And I saw a couple of day’s before the planes practicing over Moscow for the flyover.
MSN in the US/West: “Russia had to cancel the Victory Day airshow because they were losing so many planes in Ukraine they needed to have those planes there”.
A total clown show. They get away with that because they censor reports from Russia that would contradict their lies.
Congratulations Russia! on the 77th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War!
i admire your love and strong stand for your Motherland, and praying for the wisdom and guidance of our Most Wise God, and you may find His favor for your courageous righteous choice against all the oppressors around you. – i picture Russia as a only little but faithful boy David whom God gave victory over against contemptuous giant beast of the united world.
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 2Timothy 3:12
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33
may our Lord bless you and continue to lead you to His victory and peace of His pleasure
Je suis totalement d’accord avec le Président Poutine (étant fils et petit fils de résistant, une des membres de ma famille déporté à Buchenwald)….
J’ai honte de cette dite ” élite Française et occidentale “, de grands voyous à col blanc car elle sait : ” l’Empire du Mensonge ”
Pour comprendre notre environnement politique et culturel J’encourage mes compatriotes à lire : ” Le grand echiquier ” de Zbigniew Brzeziński, ” Des pions sur l’échiquier ” de William Guy Carr, ” les raisons cachées du désordre mondiale ” Tomme 1 et 2 de Valérie Bugault, L’AMERIQUE EMPIURE de Nikola Mirkovic, et bien d’autres…
La Russie est notre seul espoir et je rends HOMMAGE au Président Poutine grand Homme d’état ( La Russie entre deux mondes de Hélène Carrère d’Encausse + Audition de Mme Hélène Carrère d’Encausse : RELATION FRANCE-RUSSIE, INTERVENTION EN SYRIE! ; plus récent les écrits de Vladimire Poutine traduit en Français par Romain BESSONNET livre intitulé Poutine par lui même la conquete du pouvoir discours et interventions 1991 – 2000
Je n’en dirai pas autant de la chine qui fait peur par méconnaissance de cette culture millenaire.
Seule la coopération internationale permet la paix entre les peuples; le respect des cultures ne peut se faire que si nous repectons chaque culture sans vouloir les mélanger au profit d’une seule culture comme ce que veut nous imposer la gauche américaine depuis 50 ans, la cancel culture celle du mensonge et des dégénérés
He is not playing games. The West should listen up and act accordingly, with respect instead of stupidity.