Victory Day

 Today (May 9th) is Victory Day in Russia. It remembers the Soviet Victory over Germany during World War.

(Here is a picture I took of the Victory Day Parade on Soviet Square in Yaroslavl, Russia on May 9, 2002.)

Some things to know:

From August 1939-June 1941 the Soviet Union was officially allied with Nazi Germany giving them lots of raw materials – the last shipment going to the Germans on June 20, 1941 (the day before the Germans invaded the USSR.)

Stalin had a one-sided “Bromance” with Hitler and felt so betrayed that his “Friend” had invaded the USSR during Operation Barbarossa that he fled to his Dacha after the Invasion on June 21, 1941.

Because Stalin was crying over his betrayal it was up to Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, to announce to the Soviet People of the German Invasion.

Stalin did not address the Soviet People about the German Invasion or the War until July 3, 1941.

Stalin continued to feel so betrayed by Hitler that he enacted Order No. 270 in 1941 and Order No. 227 in 1942 making it illegal for any Soviet Citizen (Soldier or Civilian) to “allow themselves to be captured by the Germans.”

Those that did “allow” themselves to either be captured or occupied by the Germans – including going to a Death Camp or a Concentration Camp – were to later be punished by the Soviets. Many Holocaust Survivors went from a German Death Camp right into a Soviet Gulag for this “crime.”

On August 9, 1945 the USSR declared War on Japan. It was 3 days after the US dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and the same day the US dropped the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki.

Russia (as the Successor Country to the Soviet Union) is still at War with Japan since they never signed a Peace Treaty due to the Soviet and now Russian Occupation of the Japanese Kuril Islands.

From 1945 until the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991 every single Soviet Citizen that was even 1 minute old when World War 2 ended (May 9, 1945 according to the Soviets) had to constantly file Official Questionnaires (to enter Grade School, to go to a Trade School, to go to a University, to get a Job, to get the Mandatory Internal Passport, to get the Official Town Propiska, to serve in the Military – required for all Men – to get Married, to be buried, etc.) about where they were and what they did from June 21, 1945 to May 9, 1945.

Anyone who had allowed themselves to live under German Occupation was required to file lengthy Questionnaires where they were constantly judged by the different Communist Authorities in charge of whatever they were applying for as to what their punishment should be.

Yuri Gagarin (the 1st Human in Space) almost wasn’t allowed to be a Cosmonaut because on his Questionnaires he stated that from October 18, 1941 until March 9, 1944 he had allowed himself (starting from the age of 6) to live under German Occupation in his Russian village – even though his family were forced to live in a 10 x 10 mud hut since the Germans took their house, his 2 older Siblings were deported to Germany as Slave Laborers and that Gagarin was beaten so badly by the Germans for refusing to work for them that he spent months in a hospital.  It was only after a Pardon by Nikita Khrushchev that Gagarin was allowed to become a Cosmonaut.

The Soviet Government (Mikhail Gorbachev) officially admitted being an ally of Nazi Germany in December 1989.

In August 2009 the Russian Government (Vladimir Putin) condemned the Soviet Union’s 1939-1941 Collaboration with Nazi Germany as “immoral” yet he quickly changed his tone and started praising Stalin.

While Russia’s Victory Day remembers the Soviet Victory over Nazi Germany Putin’s Nazi Russian Military is carrying out a Genocidal War in Ukraine (Putin has called for the complete destruction of the Ukrainian Nation as well as every Ukrainian Man, Woman and Child.)

You would think Putin and the Russians would have learned from what happened to the Nazi Germans in 1945 and not try to recreate all of that, but they have. Putin is the new Hitler and the Russian Zs are the new Nazis carrying our Mass Murder, Rape and War Crimes across Ukraine.

Putin even hides in his Bunker the way Hitler did – hopefully he follows Hitler’s final act too. Only then can Russia and the Russian People hope to atone for their Crimes and start returning to the Civilized World.