Seventy years after the end of the Great Patriotic War(WWII) fascism is back, that being largely due to the efforts and vast sums of money of the United States and it's vassel states. At the same time a seemingly concerted effort to deny the role of the Soviet Union in defeating Nazism, to even deny the evil of Nazism is to be seen in the Western media and especially among the East European vassals of the US, themselves up to their necks in Nazi guilt. Obscene on multiple levels, this cannot be allowed to pass.

Everybody's left to war


http://youtu.be/duryVrZARGo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDm7U1lWYAAuE_3.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSEEpdl025cwV3c1L_QHJ05DzIvOHFh2_dvxBxLjcN7qie_iAwlPw

http://static3.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/a_scale_large/1900-7/photos/1365074206-ukrainian-veterans-mark-the-great-patriotic-war-victory-day_1931707.jpg

https://www.historians.org/Images/Perspectives/March%202012/Come-and-See1.gif

http://www.zastavki.com/pictures/1600x1200/2009/Holidays_May_9_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_016142_.jpg

http://rt.com/files/news/26/8d/00/00/a-1.jpg

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/AP_Photo/2005/05/07/1115492049_7549.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/97/fb/4e/97fb4e56205296cb5227e6bb80227d39.jpg

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_14/w01_z0000001.jpg

http://i58.fastpic.ru/big/2013/1029/ba/853ad44274fc713dd89cd5d61a797aba.jpg

http://i0.wp.com/www.realussr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/den_pobedy.jpg?resize=600%2C372

A despicable case of selective memory:

Historical hide

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/periskop/9080476/170324/170324_original.jpg

colonelcassad
April 28, 16:31


Comrade periskop posted photos next concealment measures on Red Square, where the country's leadership has once again hiding from the Mausoleum of the carton.

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/periskop/9080476/170701/170701_original.jpg



http://periskop.livejournal.com/1396921.h TML - Zinc is a reasonable question, which asked about it by people like Tretyakov http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/213 8916.html or Bushina http: //colonelcassad.livejournal .com / 214 6837.html remained unheard, but that does not surprise me. Hide and Seek with its own story continues here and the situation with respect to our common history in the neighboring countries - if we are continuing to hide from their own history for cartons, whether much surprised when her neighbors had already openly trample. PS. Regarding the recent threads about the same posters with Stalin, the trend when they hang opposition to the policy of silence, it is currently saved. High on a poster appeared in Novosibirsk. Here is a here there is a recently emerged. Surgut However, and here the "fight" type is. In Perm posters with Stalin simply stole http://www.nakanune.ru/news/2015/4/28/22 397,539 / . In Syktyvkar here this poster was removed at the request of the local anti-Soviet.

http://static.ngs.ru/news/preview/402285f0cb31b92677324668879ea8101d6717c0_1500.jpg

http://www.media.nakanune.ru/images/pictures/image_big_74636.jpg

http://static.7x7-journal.ru/filestorage/2015-04-23/101825_DSC_9421.jpg

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2162065.html

Google Translator

Other photos at link.

April 30th 1945: Downfall of the #nazi empire. #Berlin #Reichstag taken by the #RedArmy, #Hitler commits suicide


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD1wmNFWEAAcVZa.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD1wmQAWYAAdkNW.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD1wmWOXIAA9Esx.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD1wmRHW8AEAwfe.jpg

Courtesy Steiner ‏@Steiner1776 at Twitter

A few more, courtesy Steiner

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD1h9JKWAAEeViF.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD1iUILWgAAc1XO.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD1j11PWgAAKgUw.jpg

ROTE ARMEE erobert REICHSTAG Berlin 1945 - RED ARMY capture REICHSTAG


http://youtu.be/lXBiKigbHLQ

A short video


http://youtu.be/-sfhUacOgZk

A short video


http://youtu.be/-sfhUacOgZk

What a great little film!

Stalin Museum

http://cs1.kprf.ru/images/newsstory_illustrations/large/6fa921_1.jpg

colonelcassad
May 1, 17:10


As part of the social rehabilitation of Stalin occurred, Zyuganov proposed to open a full-fledged museum in the country dedicated to the "bloody tyrant."
Human rights activists estestestvenno unhappy and argued that "it is necessary to think in categories of democracies."

Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov sent a letter to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medina (have "News") to create a full-fledged museum of Joseph Stalin in the village Khoroshevo Rzhev. Gennady Zyuganov also notes that earlier "liberal society" was talking about the unacceptability of the establishment of such a museum, and asked the Minister of Culture to assist in the installation of the monument to the leader of the nations.
"The population of the town of Rzhev and the Rzhev district were supporting the initiative to establish a full-fledged museum. Was conducted opinion poll, which showed that more than 70% of the population for the creation of the museum IV Stalin, "- said in the letter.
In a small wooden house near Rzhev supreme commander spent the night of 4 to 5 August 1943 and ordered to hold in Moscow the first salute in honor of the troops who liberated Orel and Belgorod in the Battle of Kursk. Earlier, on the establishment of a museum in the house said the Russian military-historical society (RVIO).
Deputy Executive Director RVIO Vladislav Kononov says that the appearance of the letters Gennady Zyuganov predictable.
- Once the information about our project in the area of Rzhev Tver Region appeared in the media, on Military Historical Society bombarded with calls and letters. On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Victory come to us veterans, deputies, public figures, residents of the Tver region, Moscow and other regions and cities. The essence of almost all of these calls is reduced to the question: "Why do you gloss over Stalin's name?". We try to explain that this is a complex historical figure, which still does not have a full-fledged scientific biographical research. But there is a historical fact of the presence of Stalin at the front in August 1943 in the Rzhev area has preserved house. Erase this fact from history, no one will, no matter how called museum exhibition in a house in the Rzhev area.
According to Kononov, because of problems related to the technical condition of the house, the museum will be open on the eve of Victory Day, a little later.
Previous to the creation of the museum of Stalin acted "Memorial". Deputy Chairman of the Board of Scientific Information and Education Centre Society Nikita Petrov believes that "the image of the tyrant trying to smuggle sauce of victory in the Great Patriotic War".
- Assigning the Stalin museum is unacceptable, because this man - perpetrator of monstrous tyrant and mass repressions, - says Nikita Petrov. - In this house he visited during a single exit in the zone close to the front. But if it were made ​​public all documents on this trip, people would see how many employees of counterintelligence and the NKVD took part in it. So the act of Stalin's nothing heroic. We had a period when every building, visited by Lenin, always hung a plaque. Today, we, unfortunately, slipping to servility and the creation of new idols. In my opinion, it is indecent and archaic for our country. We must look to the future and think democratic categories.

http://izvestia.ru/news/586110#ixzz3YtPH GB00 - zinc PS. Well still grant-from "Memorial" would not be against it. Regarding the same idea with a small museum. It is clear that after all the busts, monuments, posters, billboards, buses and other things that reflect the social rehabilitation of Stalin, sooner or later begin to question arises with museums dedicated to him. In general, a small museum dedicated to Stalin in connection with this event is unlikely someone will hurt, especially if the locals do not mind. Formally, there are several sites such as Stalin's bunker, which seemed to show a part of the Stalinist era, but a full profile of the museum dedicated to Stalin in the country is not, although within the historical understanding of this major figure, a large museum, where they could collect objects, documents, certificates and so, it would be appropriate, and did not have his ideologize and collect exposure on the basis of historical objectivity, which shows both achievements and mistakes of Stalin to the people themselves can all evaluate and make its findings by considering not one-sided apologetics or frostbite dill and complex manner in which a lot of things happened. But I do not think that society is ripe for this, IMHO a few years must pass, and there is already such a museum would inevitably appear. At about the same historical inevitability image of Stalin he has emerged from the past and the present is firmly spelled out in the public consciousness, though of course the full understanding of Stalin's role in Russian history can not speak, but the wishes of the leaders of the "Memorial" listen less and less. PS2. On the title picture http://izvestia.ru/news/586110#ixzz3YtPH GB00 , another perpetuating Stalin's Russia - a commemorative plaque in Ussuriysk. Most residents of the city this idea quite a support. PS3. Plus a bit of Stalin. Stalin at the meeting node. Together with Dostoevsky. This neighborhood is very symbolic for our country. Stalin at the May Day rally of the Communist Party. A little more generallisimusa. Posters with Stalin from Perm. 5 pieces hung, 1 stolen. Theft embarked on the path of struggle with the hydra of Stalinism are looking for. Stavropol. Poster appeared yesterday, today has gone. The fight against "bloody tyrant goes." However, a survey of local residents, 74% were in favor of what would be good to "bloody tyrant" perpetuate http://www.stav.kp.ru/daily/26374.4/3255 083 / . "Memorial" does not catch mice. Kurginyan sect averse to stick to Stalin. In Makhachkala, the posters appeared, but were later dropped. Surgut. Stalin Magadan and healthy kolymchane. We are waiting for Stalin to Kolyma. -) The cut poster with Stalin in Chita. The project is a poster in the Stavropol region, which offered local deputy Novopashin. Enteo about this ogre named Stalin. Ussuriisk. The grandfather of the famous slogan personalized. Eagle. In Vladimir, May 9, the Communists are planning to install busts of Stalin and Lenin. Stalin had already produced, Ilyich in the process. By 9 May, Stalin apparently will become even more do not take root in our "democratic category." 10 years ago, when it started an active process of social rehabilitation of Stalin, in such few people believed, and now it is already in the order of things.

http://img.rosbalt.ru/photobank/7/e/4/e/bGhHczMN-650.jpg

http://svpressa.ru/photo/120637.jpg

https://scontent-vie.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/11170338_576408545835571_1722952647537166091_n.jpg?oh=107632cdf22ae592ea98f809c13ede7e&oe=55DCABB5

https://pp.vk.me/c624422/v624422634/309be/8Q6u5aeG3Ss.jpg

http://www.anna-news.info/sites/default/files/2011/u1249/3_s_47.jpg

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2167382.html

Other photos at link.

http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/102126/32/1021263231.jpg

Veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN-UPA) march during the Heroes Festival in Lviv.Ukrainian Memorial Project Presents USSR-Free Version of WWII © Sputnik/ Pyotr Zadorozhnyi

A Ukrainian journalist has expressed his indignation over a Second World War memorial project sponsored by the Ukrainian government which commemorates mostly non-Soviet Ukrainian war heroes, among them members of the Nazi collaborationist Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

Anatoly Shariy, a popular Ukrainian journalist well-known for his anti-Maidan attitudes, recently released a brief video analysis of a new state-sponsored memorial project by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance. The project includes a series of ten commemorative posters, featuring Ukrainians who fought in the Second World War.
Analyzing the posters, Shariy became perplexed by several elements of the campaign, including the fact that among the ten heroes listed, only three are Ukrainians who fought in the Soviet Army.

The journalist points out that five of the posters feature ethnic Ukrainians who fought in the armed forces of other Allied countries during the war, among them two Canadians, two Americans, and a Polish Air Force pilot. But that's not what he finds most concerning.


http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/102160/25/1021602513.png
Shariy focuses on the fact that two of the posters feature Ukrainians who fought for the collaborationist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) with clear ties to the German army. The journalist looks into the poster of Halina Kuzmenko, who is stated to have "fought in the ranks of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as a machine gunner."

The journalist points out that a simple read of her Wikipedia page shows that for "three years she went under the pseudonym 'Nadia' in the resistance underground in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region," working as a propagandist under UPA-West, commanded by Oleksandr Lutsky. Shariy notes that Lutsky was one of the organizers of the Nachtigall Battalion, which was one of the first of the German Wehrmacht's foreign battalions, formed in February 1941, before the German invasion of the Soviet Union even began.

http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/102160/25/1021602518.png

The second UPA member is Petro Fedun, a "Red Army Lieutenant, [and] later Colonel of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army." Shariy notes that Fedun served as a propagandist and key ideologue of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and that he worked as the head of the political education department of UPA's General Staff. Between 1944-1946, Fedun came to head the political department of the Regional Military Staff of UPA-West; he was killed by Soviet forces in 1951. Shariy points out that the poster also erroneously lists Fedun as having received a Golden Cross of Merit, sarcastically adding that "he received the Silver Cross of Merit in 1947, probably when he was fighting against Nazism."

Amet-Khan Sultan
http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/102160/25/1021602513.png
Shariy calls the final hero in the poster campaign, Crimean Tatar Amet-Khan Sultan, the "cherry on the cake," pointing out that "the Institute of National Remembrance might do well to remember that Sultan was born 'a bit before' Crimea became part of Ukraine in 1954."

The indignant journalist concludes by stating that "instead of celebrating Ukrainians who fought against the Nazis in the Second World War…we see Poles, Americans, and Amet-Khan Sultan," along with several UPA fighters. "Congratulations! Happy Victory!" he notes sarcastically.

During the Second World War, over six million Ukrainians fought in the ranks of the Soviet Red Army, compared with about 256,000 who fought for the OUN-UPA, most of the latter recruited from regions of Western Ukraine. An estimated 1.37 million Ukrainians in the Red Army were killed or listed missing. The country also suffered over 5.2 million civilians killed, thus losing over 15 percent of its entire population in the course of the war. An estimated 153,000 OUN-UPA fighters were killed in fighting against the Red Army.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150501/1021602527.html#ixzz3YzOr4Bai

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150501/1021602527.html

http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/102126/32/1021263231.jpg

Veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN-UPA) march during the Heroes Festival in Lviv.Ukrainian Memorial Project Presents USSR-Free Version of WWII © Sputnik/ Pyotr Zadorozhnyi

A Ukrainian journalist has expressed his indignation over a Second World War memorial project sponsored by the Ukrainian government which commemorates mostly non-Soviet Ukrainian war heroes, among them members of the Nazi collaborationist Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

Anatoly Shariy, a popular Ukrainian journalist well-known for his anti-Maidan attitudes, recently released a brief video analysis of a new state-sponsored memorial project by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance. The project includes a series of ten commemorative posters, featuring Ukrainians who fought in the Second World War.
Analyzing the posters, Shariy became perplexed by several elements of the campaign, including the fact that among the ten heroes listed, only three are Ukrainians who fought in the Soviet Army.

The journalist points out that five of the posters feature ethnic Ukrainians who fought in the armed forces of other Allied countries during the war, among them two Canadians, two Americans, and a Polish Air Force pilot. But that's not what he finds most concerning.


http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/102160/25/1021602513.png
Shariy focuses on the fact that two of the posters feature Ukrainians who fought for the collaborationist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) with clear ties to the German army. The journalist looks into the poster of Halina Kuzmenko, who is stated to have "fought in the ranks of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as a machine gunner."

The journalist points out that a simple read of her Wikipedia page shows that for "three years she went under the pseudonym 'Nadia' in the resistance underground in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region," working as a propagandist under UPA-West, commanded by Oleksandr Lutsky. Shariy notes that Lutsky was one of the organizers of the Nachtigall Battalion, which was one of the first of the German Wehrmacht's foreign battalions, formed in February 1941, before the German invasion of the Soviet Union even began.

http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/102160/25/1021602518.png

The second UPA member is Petro Fedun, a "Red Army Lieutenant, [and] later Colonel of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army." Shariy notes that Fedun served as a propagandist and key ideologue of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and that he worked as the head of the political education department of UPA's General Staff. Between 1944-1946, Fedun came to head the political department of the Regional Military Staff of UPA-West; he was killed by Soviet forces in 1951. Shariy points out that the poster also erroneously lists Fedun as having received a Golden Cross of Merit, sarcastically adding that "he received the Silver Cross of Merit in 1947, probably when he was fighting against Nazism."

Amet-Khan Sultan
http://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/102160/25/1021602513.png
Shariy calls the final hero in the poster campaign, Crimean Tatar Amet-Khan Sultan, the "cherry on the cake," pointing out that "the Institute of National Remembrance might do well to remember that Sultan was born 'a bit before' Crimea became part of Ukraine in 1954."

The indignant journalist concludes by stating that "instead of celebrating Ukrainians who fought against the Nazis in the Second World War…we see Poles, Americans, and Amet-Khan Sultan," along with several UPA fighters. "Congratulations! Happy Victory!" he notes sarcastically.

During the Second World War, over six million Ukrainians fought in the ranks of the Soviet Red Army, compared with about 256,000 who fought for the OUN-UPA, most of the latter recruited from regions of Western Ukraine. An estimated 1.37 million Ukrainians in the Red Army were killed or listed missing. The country also suffered over 5.2 million civilians killed, thus losing over 15 percent of its entire population in the course of the war. An estimated 153,000 OUN-UPA fighters were killed in fighting against the Red Army.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150501/1021602527.html#ixzz3YzOr4Bai

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150501/1021602527.html

Not to mention that there was no "United Nations" before 1945. These ridiculous people try rewriting history, but can't get their lies straight with facts they want to abuse.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11143128_1644440625779283_8985800737228131530_n.jpg?oh=f669ab3074b8daf41cac57e90c6e8671&oe=55C5A0A0&__gda__=1440428716_014951d4837aa37bb62456e8b13dfce4


Truth about situation in Ukraine
4th of May, 2015. Donetsk People's Republic, Novorossiya.

The Victory Day Parade in Donetsk will take place with the participation of about 150 veterans of the Great Patriotic War, who took direct part in battles. This was announced to the DNA by the Donetsk mayor, Igor Martynov.
"All veterans underwent a thorough medical examination. Physicians allowed 150 older people to take part in the parade, - the mayor reported.
The youngest participant is already 88 years old, the oldest veteran of the Great Patriotic War in August will celebrate his 100th year anniversary.
On the Victory Day Parade the veterans will be located on the center stand, together with the head of Republic Alexander Zakharchenko, Martynov added.
Those veterans who for health reasons are unable to take part in the festive event will be congratulated by representatives of the government and the military at their homes.
"None of the heroes of that time shall be forgotten", - Martynov said.

Source: http://dan-news.info/politics/okolo-150-veteranov-vov-primut-uchastie-v-parade-pobedy-v-donecke.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1644440625779283

May 1945 year. Soviet tanks is-2 in Berlin


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD1tD4PWMAE-q58.jpg

We will not rest so long ago.....


http://youtu.be/-9fJZXFiKdw?list=PLKE2SFydKEri4-G3jJbHL1jA2hzfheaXa

Study: USSR won the battle of economies with Nazy Germany in WWII

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Dqda-U_S050/VUYWws0l0MI/AAAAAAAANL4/uwmi_6zHv2I/s1600/398865154.jpg

May 3, 2015

Regnum

Translated by Kristina Rus


Soviet victory was achieved through the mobilization of all resources and effective management of the economy, says the author of a new study.


A new book "The sacrifices of nations. The battle of economies of the Soviet Union and Germany" («Жертвы народов. Битва экономик Советского Союза и Германии») by doctor of technical sciences, Professor Bulat Nigmatulin was released in the year of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The author presented balanced statistics in an accessible, structured form accompanied by their analysis and conclusions.


The book consists of two parts. The first one talks about the losses of soldiers and civilians during the war from 1941 to 1945. The second compares the system of management of the economy of two countries, that clearly compares macroeconomic indicators, including the manufacture of armaments, assesses the contribution of the allies, performs analysis of the damage to the economies of both countries.


As noted in the book, in order to win the war, the leadership of the Soviet Union had to carry out a full mobilization of the industrial and labor resources of the country and create a super-efficient system of economic management. As a result, in the period of 1941-1944 nearly twice more major weapons and ammunition was produced than in Germany, and in 1942 - the most difficult for the Soviet Union — 3 times more.


Meanwhile, in this period the total economic and industrial potential of the Soviet Union was only 74% relative to Germany; GDP was only 77% of German; total volume of production of energy resources — 71% relative to Germany. Daily per capita consumption of food by civilians in the USSR was 66% lower than in Germany.


Analysis of the economic decisions of the country's leadership in organizing the production of arms and ammunition on the home front opens a new understanding of the history of our victory over Germany. The secret of such success lies in mobilizing everyone working towards a common goal. Factories on the Soviet home front were open around the clock with 2-3 shifts lasting up to 11 hours. People worked without days off and holidays, and Germany practically operated in a peace-time regime until 1943.


Women occupied 50% of the workforce in Soviet factories, whereas in Germany the share of women in the workplace did not exceed 30 %. One more detail — next to adults worked about a million teenagers 14-17 years old on the Soviet home front.


KR: This efficient mobilization came at the sacrifice of consumer goods economy, forcing the Soviet population into survival mode. For example, my grandma had to walk barefoot in her village for lack of footwear. But it really was about survival, and the Soviet people did survive and persevered.
9:03 AM Analysis Economy Germany History Russia War WWII

http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/05/study-ussr-won-battle-of-economies-with.html

Imagine what might have been achieved without post-war reconstruction, Cold War. The Soviet Union was in a 'state of war' for it's entire existence.

872 days of cold, hunger and death: Leningrad siege survivors share memories with RT
Published time: May 04, 2015 18:18 Get short URL

One of the most tragic and harrowing chapters of the WWII was the siege of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, which lasted for almost 900 days. RT spoke to the survivors who unveiled the horrors of the deadliest siege in the history of warfare.

For 872 days, from September 8, 1941 till January 27, 1944 people in the Russian city of Leningrad were encircled by Nazi forces, cut off from the rest of the country with no food or vital supplies.

Though the total death toll is still unclear, estimates of the victims from the siege vary, with some numbering up to 1.5 million civilians.

Svetlana, one of the survivors of the Leningrad siege was only 7 years old when the war broke out. Speaking to RT’s Madina Kochinova, she recalls her first encounter with death when she found her aunt frozen on the street.

“She was lying with her head looking that way,” Svetlana said to RT’s Kochinova, showing the spot where she had found her relative. “Her feet, they looked so scary, so black because of the cold.”

The city was heavily bombed while people were dying of starvation and extreme cold. The winter of 1941-42 saw temperatures plunge to 40C below zero. With no heating the entire water supply network had frozen solid. The only solution was to collect water from holes in ice in the frozen Neva River.

“People wander around the city holding empty buckets search for water. There is no water, the pipes are frozen…” wrote Lubov Shaporina in a diary entry on January 6, 1942.

A woman sledging a starving husband in besieged Leningrad. (RIA Novosti/Israel Ozersky)A woman sledging a starving husband in besieged Leningrad. (RIA Novosti/Israel Ozersky)

People endured severe food shortages: a strict rationing system was in effect in the city, with individual daily food consumption limited to around 125 grams of bread.

“The horror of the siege was how death became routine, in winter ’41-’42 people just collapsed and died on the streets,” Oleg Bushuev, the siege survivor, said according to iremember.ru website dedicated to WWII.

Tatyana Korsakova, now 78, lived under the blockade for two years. In an interview with RT she recalls that death was in the air in the city.


http://rt.com/files/news/3e/57/10/00/l2.jpg

“As spring came we went to the bridge over Fontanka river. And from there we saw corpses floating down the river. And for some reason the kids including me were neither scared of the corpses nor disgusted. It was just a fact of the reality we were living in.”

At one point the death toll peaked at 150,000 people a day, with those still alive forced to eat pets, rats or glue. Many people were driven to madness, while some resorted to cannibalism.

“Cases of cannibalism started to appear. You walk down the street and you see a corpse, you walk back and see there is piece missing,” wrote Klavdiya Naumovna in a diary entry on February 22, 1942.

Women and children were being attacked. People kidnapped children “to eat them,” Svetlana told RT. “It did take place. Everyone knew about it.”

People queueing up fo water in besieged Leningrad. (RIA Novosri/Vladimir Tselik)People queueing up fo water in besieged Leningrad. (RIA Novosri/Vladimir Tselik)

As Hitler's army surrounded the area of around 5,000 square kilometers, cutting almost all road links to the city, the only way for supplies to reach the population was via a narrow and dangerous road on the frozen surface of Lake Ladoga - it became known as the "Road of Life."

"Vehicles drove along one and the same track, and the ice became very thin and worn out, so we had to watch the traffic and the ice condition. The ice was repaired manually: we drilled holes and carried water to pour on the ice road. All the while the Germans were bombing us,” Vera Rogova, who served as a traffic officer on the Road of Life, told RT.

Another witness of the siege, Svetlana Magaeva, said Nazi planes were constantly bombing the trucks on the lake, many of which were carrying children.

http://rt.com/files/news/3e/57/10/00/l3.jpg

"They didn’t care that those were the Red Cross trucks. In winter, the headlights of those drowned trucks were glowing and glowing until they finally went off. And in summer, we often saw children’s caps in the water,” Magaeva recalled in her book of memoirs.

An antiaircraft battery in besieged Leningrad. (RIA Novosti/Boris Kudoyarov)An antiaircraft battery in besieged Leningrad. (RIA Novosti/Boris Kudoyarov)

People looked for symbols to give them hope. Amid the suffering, people could hear the persistent beat of the so-called Leningrad metronome. It became a symbol of the people’s resistance to the siege. Broadcast through 1,500 speakers, a slow beat meant retreat, while a fast beat warned of an air raid.

Another symbol of resistance and the will to victory was the legendary 7th Symphony composed by Dmitry Shostakovich who witnessed the horrific siege in the first year of the war.

"My 7th Symphony was based on the formidable events of 1941," the composer said on an archive tape. "I dedicated my composition to the struggle against fascism, our forthcoming victory and my native city of Leningrad."


The blockade of Leningrad is described as deliberate genocide by some historians. Over half a million people are buried in the Piskaryovskoe Memorial Cemetery, which is the main resting place for its victims.


http://youtu.be/1LZC9dOFDKA

“The blockade was sudden and unexpected, as much as the war itself was unexpected for the country. There were no reserves of fuel, no food...” the siege witness, Russian writer Daniil Granin said in his speech at the German parliament in 2014.

http://rt.com/news/255345-world-war-leningrad-seige/#.VUfQLXwPv8M.twitter

The May aggravation

http://images.aif.ru/006/034/3128c38b9c388871b7654c7367e8bc98.jpg

colonelcassad
May 5, 17:46


Traditionally, as we approach the Victory Day, in various ghouls coming season aggravation.

1. Alapayevsk Victory Day congratulated the residents with 12 posters, with 2 of them in the frame Guards ribbon and red stars marching Wehrmacht soldiers.
Posters have been removed, such as those responsible In this case, it looks like a deliberate action. 2. Grant-in "Memorial" called for a ban of Stalin. The staff of the human rights organization "Memorial" called for legislation to prohibit the glorification of Stalin during celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the Victory. It is reported by "Interfax" referring to the statement of society. "Installing any of the monument with the figure of Stalin's blasphemous. Stalin's crimes have no analogues in the country's history. Their scale is such that the appearance of his image in the public space in which whatever positive context is unacceptable and must be prohibited by law " - said in a statement. The authors emphasize the treatment in this case, they did not intend "to strike out from the history of Stalin and prohibit its references as did Stalin himself to the destruction of their former colleagues. " However, they strongly oppose any use of Stalin's image on posters and banners during celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the Victory. http://lenta.ru/news/2015/05/ 05 / Stalin / - zinc PS. What seemed to hint that the posters with Stalin on Victory Day will be even greater. Mangle them from the image of Stalin and it was good. 3. And the crown of aggravation, fresh Alekseeva. Joseph Stalin prevented the victory in the Great Patriotic War, said "Russian news service," the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alexeyeva. She opposed the use of the image of Stalin during the celebration of 70 years of Victory. "Commander in Chief, he was incompetent. He is responsible for the fact that we retreated at first. Because he destroyed the command structure before the war, and we were without a commander. When under the Staraya Russa surrounded our army, he decided that there is nothing to help 400 thousand people, they did not send any weapons or ammunition. They died of hunger. From 400 thousand 12 people were saved. Such in-chief judge should be " - she said. http://rusnovosti.ru/posts/372619 - zinc 12 of 400,000 is much new word in the history of the Second World War.

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2173705.html

Google Translator

Alapayevsk Victory Day congratulated the residents with 12 posters, with 2 of them in the frame Guards ribbon and red stars marching Wehrmacht soldiers.

Foul bastards.

Victory Day parade in Russian regionsReady..Front! Crimea's Prosecutor General to Lead Battalion at V-Day Parade © Sputnik/ Taras Litvinenko

http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/102181/05/1021810556.jpg

As each Russian region is getting ready to host its own V-Day Parade, to make it an unforgettable occasion for the veterans, Crimea is turning to its most beloved lady in uniform: Prosecutor General and Internet darling Natalia Poklonskaya will lead the prosecutors’ battalion and march in the parade of veterans and modern law enforcement units.
Russia’s Republic of Crimea, among others, is getting ready to host a Victory Parade of its own. It will be the second such parade since the peninsula's re-unification with Russia.

http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/102181/16/1021811655.jpg
BTR-80 armored personnel carrier during the May 9 Victory Parade in Simferopol
© SPUTNIK/ TARAS LITVINENKO
BTR-80 armored personnel carrier during the May 9 Victory Parade in Simferopol
This year marks the 70th anniversary of Russia’s victory in the Second World War and has to be even more grandiose.

Apart from the modern weaponry and equipment, the peninsula has a secret weapon of its own: Prosecutor General and Internet darling Natalia Poklonskaya.

Poklonskaya is going to lead the prosecutors’ battalion, which will march in the parade of veterans and modern law enforcement units.

http://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/102181/17/1021811744.jpg
Victory Day parade in Russian regions
© SPUTNIK/ TARAS LITVINENKO
Victory Day parade in Russian regions
“Our separate prosecutors’ battalion will take an active and direct part in the parade,” Poklonskaya told the media.

The prosecutor added that her own family has a tradition of commemorating Victory Day with great care and she will continue celebrating within her family after the parade.

http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/102181/17/1021811731.jpg
Victory Parades held across Russia
© SPUTNIK/ TARAS LITVINENKO
Victory Parades held across Russia
35-year-old Poklonskaya took her post on March 25, 2014; her cute looks and iconic uniform made her an internet sensation and she immediately became an icon for many Japanese cartoonist and animators who were struck by her beauty.

Many of her fans created anime-style images and videos which were uploaded to the Internet and attracted attention from international media outlets.
Interestingly, her birthday coincides with the day Crimea and the Russian government signed the treaty of reunification in 2014.



Read more: http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150507/1021811755.html#ixzz3ZS6CKsbE

http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150507/1021811755.html

As didy

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/zvezdochettt/14950308/65194/65194_original.jpg


Excellent selection of well reflects the continuity of "Ukrainian red poppies."

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/zvezdochettt/14950308/66122/66122_original.jpg

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/zvezdochettt/14950308/65564/65564_original.jpg

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/zvezdochettt/14950308/66559/66559_original.jpg

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/zvezdochettt/14950308/66564/66564_original.jpg

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/zvezdochettt/14950308/67022/67022_original.jpg

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/zvezdochettt/14950308/67166/67166_original.jpg

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/zvezdochettt/14950308/67495/67495_original.jpg

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/zvezdochettt/14950308/67627/67627_original.jpg

http://zvezdochettt.livejournal.com/2988 52.html - Zinc


http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2178078.html

Google Translator

Additional series here:

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2177913.html

Well done.

Truth about situation in Ukraine added 5 new photos.

Donetsk veteran of the Great Patriotic War will represent the Donetsk People’s Republic on the Victory Parade in Moscow. Reserve Colonel Sergei Tarnovsky has left for Moscow today.
“Sergei Vasilyevich Tarnovsky was assigned to represent our young Republic and its soldiers-liberators in Moscow. This assignment is very honorable and responsible. This morning, the veteran has left for Moscow on the route Donetsk-Rostov-Moscow. It will be the fourth Victory Parade on the Red Square attended by Tarnovsky. The first one was the glorious Victory Parade in 1945,” – Ivan Kulaga, the veteran of the Great Patriotic War, the director of the agency “Memory Book of Ukraine” said.
Sergei Vasilyevich Tarnovsky was born in Odessa, grew up in Vinnitsa, studied at military school in Shuyskoye (Moscow region). When the war broke out, he had the rank of Lieutenant. He liberated the cities of Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. When tere was the capitulation of Nazi Germany, he was in Austria. After the war, Sergei Tarnovsky was taken to regiment for the protection of the Austrian President Karl Renner. Later, he guarded planes and trains with gold, diamonds, and then he guarded Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov and Budyonny. In 1972, he moved to Donetsk where he worked in the central processing plant. Now he is an active public figure, he is engaged in military-patriotic education of young people.
Source: http://dan-news.info/…/na-parade-9-maya-v-moskve-dnr-budet-…

https://www.facebook.com/TruthfromUkraine/posts/1645490839007595

Photos at link.

Obama's outrageous snub to the Russian people

http://cdn.rt.com/files/opinionpost/3e/8d/10/00/obama-putin-ww2-russia-parade.si.jpg

Bryan MacDonald is an Irish writer and commentator focusing on Russia and its hinterlands and international geo-politics. Follow him on Facebook

Get short URL Published time: May 06, 2015 16:08
Moscow, Russia. A Coalition-SV self-propelled gun rolls by during rehearsal for parade marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. (RIA Novosti/Vladimir Astapkovich)Moscow, Russia. A Coalition-SV self-propelled gun rolls by during rehearsal for parade marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. (RIA Novosti/Vladimir Astapkovich)
103
Trends
Victory Day
Tags
Anniversary, Army, Conflict, EU, Germany, History, Merkel, Military, Obama, Politics, Putin, Russia, USA, WWII
Barack Obama's decision to play political games with the 70th anniversary of Victory Day was probably intended as a snub to Vladimir Putin. However, it's actually an outrageous insult to the Russian people.

I remember my first Russian May 9th very well. For the simple reason that following a rather raucous Saturday night, I plain forgot about it. Waking up slightly the worst for wear, I took Kris Kristofferson’s advice and flung on my “cleanest, dirty shirt” before heading to downtown Khabarovsk on that Sunday morning sidewalk. The problem was that the otherwise innocent garment was something I’d picked up at World Cup 2006 in Berlin. Emblazoned across the front were the words, “Deutschland” and on the rear “Germany” for those who had initially missed the point.

Dozily trotting down the Far Eastern capital’s wide central thoroughfare, Karl Marx Street, I noticed a few strange looks alright. By the time I passed the viewing platform at Lenin Square, my paranoia levels had peaked as people kept smiling at me, a very un-Russian trait. Eventually, I reached the Steakhouse where I’d arranged to meet my friend Vova and his buddy Max. Seeing my attire, they both laughed so hard that they doubled over.

“Oh my god! Is there a shop open, I need to buy a new T-Shirt,” I nervously said.

“No, you don’t. It’s just funny. You are not doing anything wrong,” Vova replied.

“Are you sure? I won’t get attacked by Russian nationalists or anything?”

“Not unless you put über alles after the Deutschland!”

In my homeland, St Patrick’s Day is a very big deal. The Irish have a love/hate attitude to it and many resent its association with heavy drinking. However, it remains our national holiday and despite the odd cringe, we are proud of its global appeal. To be honest, I’m not sure how safe it would be to wear an England soccer shirt in Dublin or a provincial Irish city on March 17. For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t personally be inclined to volunteer as a guinea pig either.

http://rt.com/files/opinionpost/3e/8d/10/00/3254465.jpg
U.S. President Barack Obama. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)U.S. President Barack Obama. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Russians respect Germany
The point here is that Russians, despite the horrors of the “Great Patriotic War,” as its known there, don’t hate Germans. In actual fact, they quite like them. I can only give my personal experience, but I find that when you ask Russians which foreign country they most admire, a few will plump for the USA, a couple more for Japan or France but the majority will say Germany. Back home, I’d have to travel a long way before I’d find an Irishman who would admit to reverence for England.

Angela Merkel knows this too. She also understands how much “Victory Day” means to Russians. For that reason, despite humungous pressure from the US, which effectively colonizes her nation militarily, she will visit Moscow this weekend to commemorate the dead. The Chancellor is skipping the army parade on the 9th and instead will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with President Putin the following day. Of course, a lot of Russians feel she should appear at both events. Indeed, one Vadim Raskin, a doctor from Novokuznetsk, organized a campaign which saw thousands write to her Berlin address expressing dismay.

While Merkel feels that the blowback from the Ukraine crisis means she can’t attend the military display, she’s at least acknowledging Russia’s gigantic war sacrifice. Smaller NATO members, Greece and the Czech Republic, are sending their heads of state and Slovakia will be represented by its Prime Minister, Robert Fico. Many in Moscow, including President Putin, accuse the US of coercing other European states not to send delegations.

However, while Europe cowers under American duress, the leaders of China, India, Brazil and South Africa will be present in Moscow. What should have been a day for solemn commemoration of humanity’s most tragic waste of life, has been turned into an interstate ‘brannigan’, worthy of a putative new Cold War. The man responsible for this is Barack Obama. It's less the "audacity of hope" and more the timidity of doltishness.



Obama's own goal
Like an Englishman taking a penalty at a World Cup, Obama has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and handed his great rival, Vladimir Putin, the moral high ground. Let me explain why the White House’s petty snub is a major strategic blunder and also an error of principle.

What most European and North American commentators don’t fully understand is just how all-consuming memories of the “Great Patriotic War” are for Russians. Defeating German fascism and repelling the Nazi invasion is regarded as their finest hour as a people. Some in the West may perceive Yuri Gagarin’s first space flight as the crowning glory, but the natives don’t. There's a simple reason for this, almost every Russian either has a living or dead relative who fought in the conflict. On the other hand, not many Russians can boast of a family member who has been to outer space.


http://rt.com/files/opinionpost/3e/8d/10/00/265345678.jpg
1941-1945; wartime photo; World War two; seizure of Berlin. (RIA Novosti)1941-1945; wartime photo; World War two; seizure of Berlin. (RIA Novosti)

The UK and the USA also lean heavily on the memory of World War Two, the latter aided by Hollywood which often re-writes the accepted history. While both made huge contributions to the war effort, even the most myopic would not dare suggest that either's suffering was comparable to what the USSR endured. Total Soviet deaths numbered around 27 million.

By comparison, Britain lost 450,000 and the USA 420,000. The main aggressor, Germany, counted around six million casualties. In 2004, Russian historian Vadim Erlikhman estimated that around 14 million of the Soviet fallen were from Russia with other massive losses sustained by Ukraine (6.8 million) and Belarus (2.3 million). The central Asian countries, former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan suffered greater loss of life than the UK or USA. Poland was also a victim of the war. In 1987, Dachau survivor Franciszek Proch concluded that 3.3 million ethnic Polish and 2.5 million Polish Jews died.

Obama - hope we can't believe in
For Barack Obama to use the specter of a civil war in a failed, corrupt state on the edge of Europe as an excuse to water the graves of Russia's war dead is an absurdity. Especially after his own representatives promoted the violent coup - against a freely elected government - which created the conditions for the conflict.

A man who likes to preach about democracy and freedom should surely realize that those values he, outwardly, holds dear survive in part because of the Russian and Soviet sacrifice 70 years ago. I actually suspect he doesn’t acknowledge this. US policy towards Moscow is so harebrained that one would venture that a team of monkeys, armed with ‘ogham’ stones, would do a better job than the State Department’s current Russia team.

A country that celebrates its own national holidays with such fervor as the Americans exhibit on Thanksgiving and the 4th of July should be aware of how other nations feel about theirs. That said, Victory Day is more than a regular national holiday. It’s living, breathing history.

This 70th anniversary is probably the last major milestone that a significant number of veterans will be able to attend. The fact that Barack Obama was unable to find it in his heart to come to Moscow and doff his cap to men and women who did more for the values he purports to hold dear than he ever will, speaks volumes about his character. The worst American President since Jimmy Carter has not only destroyed relations between the White House and the Kremlin, he may also have obliterated any residual goodwill that still existed from the ordinary Russian people towards America. That’s a poisonous legacy.

http://rt.com/op-edge/256209-obama-putin-ww2-russia-parade/#.VUzhnpFxA0k.twitter

Cranes (Eng subs)


http://youtu.be/THeGsS_Skew

Soviet soldiers casting Nazi banners to the foot of Lenin's mausoleum. Victory Parade 1945.


http://youtu.be/PJMrbBUbE_g

Victory!
Grandfather in 1942
colonelcassad
May 9, 14:22

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3207/225044291.2f1/0_1247ae_d6a857a4_XXL.jpg

Pictures of the huge on how to celebrate the victory of our great ancestors in 1945.

Victory!

My Other, I congratulate all of you on Victory Day! We bow to the soldiers of the Great War - our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. I wish all the new May 45th, when we're going to have to clean the Earth from resurgent fascism.
And the great feast, friends, a selection of photos depicting the days of May 45th as a victory met our grandparents, the soldiers of the Red Army and the entire Soviet people.

1. A solemn meeting in the main base of the Northern Fleet in the Arctic, dedicated to the victory over the enemy in World War II. Destroyers moored to the pier type «Town»: left "Hot" on the right - "hot" between the destroyer project 7U "Gremyashchy" in the background - the right "Defiant", to the left - "Decent." 09.05.1945 Mr.

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3914/225044291.2f1/0_1247af_cbbb619b_XXXL.jpg

2. Group portrait of soldiers and officers of SMERSH counterintelligence department of the NKVD Soviet 70th Army against the backdrop of the Reich Chancellery on Victory Day. 05/09/1945 of 3. Soviet soldiers in Berlin, drinking wine to celebrate the victory. 05/09/1945 of 4. Victory Banner ruined Reichstag on May 1, 1945. The picture was taken as a war correspondent of the newspaper "Pravda" VA Temin from the aircraft Po-2. 5. Soldiers of the 150th Infantry Idritsa-Berlin, Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree division at the Reichstag. 6. Victory Salute over the Moscow Kremlin. 05/09/1945 of 7. Victory Salute in Moscow. View of the Kremlin chimes. 05/09/1945 of 8. The motorcade parade in Kiev May 1, 1945. 9. Salute in honor of the Victory in the roof of the Reichstag. Soldiers of the battalion under the command of Hero of the Soviet Union S. Neustroeva. [1] 10. Victory Salute Deterskhagen in the village on the Elbe. 134 Infantry Verde, the Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Salute is made ​​from 76-mm divisional gun ZIS-3. 05/09/1945 of 11. Soviet submarine L-22 and the light cruiser "Murmansk" at the Victory Parade in the Kola Bay. 13/05/1945 of 12. Workers dining Arkhangelsk rolled a barrel of beer to celebrate the victory. Trinity Avenue. Left to see the Obelisk north. 05/09/1945 of 13. Archangel Bishop Seraphim at the celebration of Victory. 05/09/1945 of 14. Residents go to the Arkhangelsk area of Trade Unions in the festivities in honor of the Victory. 05/09/1945 of 15. Soviet soldiers with an accordion on the streets of Berlin. The inscription on the wall: "Berlin will remain German!» (Berlin bleibt deutsch!) 16. Soviet artillery listen to the game on the accordion his friend on the street in Berlin. In the foreground - 122 mm Howitzer M-30. May 1945 17. A column of Soviet soldiers of the 5th Shock Army on parade in the park Lyusgarten in Berlin. May 1945 18. A column of Soviet soldiers of the 5th Shock Army on parade in the park Lyusgarten in Berlin. 19. Parade parts of the Soviet 5th Shock Army in the park Lyusgarten in Berlin. 04/05/1945 of 20. Soviet soldiers applauded the dancing to his friend at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. May 1945 21. Victory Salute in Moscow. View of the Red Square. Fireworks began May 9, 1945 at 22.00. Followed by bursts of thirty thousand guns into the sky, illuminated by searchlights. 05/09/1945 of 22. Officers of the 98th separate reconnaissance regiment ADJUSTMENT (right to left), deputy regiment commander Guards Major Valery Verkholantsev (1916-2001), navigator of the regiment, the Major Ilya Prokofievich Forest (1920-1989), Chief of Staff Boris Misakovich Avzhiyan (1910) with fellow soldiers celebrating victory in the vicinity of the German town of Fürstenwalde. Picture taken in the night from 8 to 9 May 1945, at 1:25 hours. May 15, 1945, the Major Valery Alexandrovich Verkholantseva was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. 23. Soviet submarine L-22 at the Victory Parade in the Kola Bay. 13/05/1945 of 24. Soviet tank photographed for memory on a background of broken Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, standing on the armor of a heavy tank IS-2. May 1945 25. A Soviet officer with the Austrian girl dancing on the square Karl Renner-Ring in Vienna. 05/09/1945 of 26. Soviet citizens congratulate the officers on the victory at the background of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. 05/09/1945 of 27. On the Strelka of Vasilyevsky Island in Leningrad during the salute in honor of the Victory. 05/09/1945 of 28. May 9, 1945 on Red Square. 29. Group portrait of the pilots of the 102nd Fighter Wing Guards Vyborg. In the top row, fourth from left (just behind) - Sergei Smirnov, the center sits Andrei Petrovich Bredik. 30. Leningradites on Nevsky Prospekt hear a message of the victory over Germany. 05/09/1945 of 31. Soviet photojournalists and cameramen in front of the Reichstag. From left to right, first row: G. Samsonov, Alexander Morozov, F. Kislov, Zheleznov L., J. Shahin, O. Knorring; second row: S. Alperin, Kapustiansky A., G. Petrus R. Carmen; third row: Arkhipov, M. Red'kin, N. dates. May 1945 32. Salute in honor of the Victory in the roof of the Reichstag. Soldiers of the battalion under the command of Hero of the Soviet Union S. Neustroeva. [2] 33. Soviet tanks and soldiers celebrate the victory. May 1945 34. Festive feast officers 143rd Mortar Regiment May 9, 1945. In the foreground, from left Captain Skarupsky. 05/09/1945 of 35. The first day of the World in Berlin. Soviet soldiers talking to civilians. May 1945 36. Soviet soldiers have captured in Berlin German flags. Copyright photo title - "Winner". May 1945 37. Group political workers 385 th Infantry Division headed by the chief of the political department Colonel Mikhailov in the Reichstag. 38. Servicemen of the 88th separate Guards Heavy Tank Regiment, photographed at the monument to Bismarck in Berlin. After the announcement of the German surrender fellow soldiers went for a walk through Berlin, and among the photos were taken and shot at the sign for the German monument. 05/09/1945 of 39. Servicemen of the 88th separate Guards Heavy Tank Regiment celebrates his victory in the Berlin park. 05/09/1945 of 40. Victory Salute in Moscow. View of the Red Square. Fireworks began May 9, 1945 at 22.00. Followed by bursts of thirty thousand guns into the sky, illuminated by searchlights. 05/09/1945 of 41. Girls snipers Soviet 3rd Shock Army. 04/05/1945 of 42. Soviet military go on a tour of the Reichstag May 9, 1945. 43. Soviet soldiers celebrate the victory. May 1945 44. Soviet soldiers in Berlin tram car. Author's title shot - "The first passengers of the Berlin tram." May 1945 45. The residents of Leningrad to salute in honor of the Victory. May 1945 46. The residents of Leningrad to salute in honor of the Victory. May 1945 47. Soviet soldiers on the streets of Berlin. May 1945

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4201/225044291.2f1/0_1247b1_aabae5a3_XXXL.jpg

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6829/225044291.2f1/0_1247b3_4fa52642_XXXL.jpg

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4810/225044291.2f2/0_1247ba_40d19976_XXXL.jpg

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9743/225044291.2f2/0_1247c6_e2d99ec0_XXXL.jpg.

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3207/225044291.2f2/0_1247cf_f527773_XXXL.jpg

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9651/225044291.2f2/0_1247dd_fbc9eac1_XXXL.jpg

48. Soviet soldiers drink to victory - on the general construction of the announcement of the victory over Nazi Germany May 9, 1945. Poured ordinary Vladimir Milutin - scout reconnaissance teams self-propelled guns of the First Ukrainian Front. V.A.Milyutin 1914 year of birth on the front, from 23 June 1941. It has passed the way from Moscow to Potsdam. 09.05.1945 Mr.


https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4614/225044291.2f2/0_1247de_88b665b0_XXXL.jpg

49. Soviet soldiers and officers drank with the Americans for the victory. 1945 50. Poet Yevgeny Dolmatovsky with sculptural head of Hitler in Berlin. May 1945 51. Soviet soldiers in the apartment Goebbels in Hitler's bunker under the Reich Chancellery. May 1945 52. The famous Soviet singer Ruslanova performs "Katyusha" on the background of the destroyed Reichstag. May 1945 53. Soviet soldiers resting on the steps of the Reich Chancellery, considering the German award which has not been awarded. Berlin. May 2, 1945. 54. Soviet officers in a boat sailing along the damaged embankment in Berlin. 55. A pile of trophies Soviet - a symbol of the defeat of Nazi Germany. Rifles, submachine guns MP-40 machine gun, awards and banners. In the center - the standard of SS Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler." 56. Soviet soldiers resting on the banks of the River Spree in Berlin. May 1945 57. Poet Yevgeny Dolmatovsky stands at the Brandenburg Gate. 1945 58. Meeting the Red Army at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. May 1945

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6747/225044291.2f2/0_1247df_4bcaac00_XXXL.jpg

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4408/225044291.2f2/0_1247e5_fa348aee_XXXL.jpg

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6728/225044291.2f2/0_1247e8_ac281f91_XXXL.jpg

59. The reconnaissance platoon of the 88th separate Guards Heavy Tank Regiment with their commander Vladimir Ivanovich Kuznetsov (third from right). As the signature on the back of the photo, shot in Berlin in Humboldt Park May 8, 1945.

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6728/225044291.2f2/0_1247e8_ac281f91_XXXL.jpg

]59. The reconnaissance platoon of the 88th separate Guards Heavy Tank Regiment with their commander Vladimir Ivanovich Kuznetsov (third from right). As the signature on the back of the photo, shot in Berlin in Humboldt Park May 8, 1945.


https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9801/225044291.2f3/0_1247e9_dfa0e730_XXXL.jpg

( Much, much more at link)

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2179401.html

Victory Day in New Russia
Grandfather in 1943
colonelcassad
May 9, 13:45

https://pp.vk.me/c623827/v623827036/2dfdb/VzDwTsJFTL8.jpg

Photos and videos of the Victory Day celebrations in New Russia May 9, 2015.

https://pp.vk.me/c625826/v625826463/2df89/ipyhXtReJco.jpg

https://pp.vk.me/c622618/v622618619/2d4d3/GjAfJIOUWME.jpg

https://pp.vk.me/c623219/v623219012/2e9e0/R6VGVdwEc54.jpg

https://pp.vk.me/c624619/v624619772/2fa37/RkIK1y6LqVE.jpg

https://pp.vk.me/c628525/v628525038/a0f/9nSaDiYjuv0.jpg

https://pp.vk.me/c623328/v623328110/364af/MEcj7kl9pLs.jpg

[img]https://pp.vk.me/c627128/v627128046/90c/6xxve5ncDEs.jpg

https://pp.vk.me/c622618/v622618248/30992/aDRWODPTGrQ.jpg

Much, much more at link

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2179242.html

Video of Victory Day parade in Donetsk


http://youtu.be/lTtUgX1LWfI

Well, it ain't Prussian drill, but who needs 18th century affectation in the 21st? Looks like a real army to me.

Victory Day Parade in Grozny


http://youtu.be/cXekKS37YRQ

Recreation of storming of the Reichstag.

Meanwhile in Minsk...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEkQISoWAAAgx1R.jpg

Thanks Marcel Sardo

Truth about situation in Ukraine added 8 new photos.
6 mins · Edited ·
9th of May, 2015. Berlin, Germany.
Russians and Germans celebrate Victory Day in Berlin in Solidarity with Russia, Novorossiya and all peoples Fighting agianst Imperialism all over the globe.

https://www.facebook.com/TruthfromUkraine/posts/1645756895647656

Photos at link.

ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF THE 2ND GLOBAL IMPERIALIST WAR AND THE GREAT ANTIFASCIST VICTORY OF THE PEOPLES, 9 MAY 1945

http://inter.kke.gr/export/sites/inter/.content/images/news/9-mai.JPG_1811983680.jpg

The day when the Red Flag, the banner of the first socialist state, the Soviet Union, was raised triumphantly over the Reichstag by the Red Army, which had crushed the main part of the allegedly invincible armies of Nazi Germany, remains one of the brightest pages in the people’s history.

Germany surrendered unconditionally at daybreak of the 9th of May 1945. Japan also surrendered four months later (2 September 1945) after the victory of the Soviet troops over its army in Manchuria. Thus the victory of the peoples against the fascist imperialist bloc comprised of the capitalist states Germany-Japan-Italy and their allies was sealed.

The KKE pays tribute to all those who gave their lives or were disabled on the battlefields and in the underground resistance in order to smash the fascist monster, which was created by capitalism. To the communist parties all over the world which led the national liberation struggles.

To all those who fought with weapons or with leaflets in their hands, maintained a heroic stance in the dungeons and in the face of the execution squads. To the countless who died in the bombings and from of hunger, the main victims of which were children. To the millions who were tortured in the terrible concentration and death camps, and in every place where unspeakable horrors were committed, where the exploitation of man by man reached its nadir, with the absolute degradation of human existence.

We honour and defend the enormous contribution of the USSR

We honour and defend from distortion the enormous contribution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The Soviet Union shouldered the main burden of the war. It is characteristic that in the summer of 1944, when the US and British forces in Western Europe faced 75 German divisions, the Red Army had pinned down 200 divisions on the Eastern Front. The USSR made a decisive contribution at an enormous cost. The figures are shocking: over 20 million dead, amongst them the flower of the communists, the youngest, most capable and productive age groups. In contrast, Britain’s dead reached 375 thousand and the USA’s 405 thousand. The human sacrifices of the USSR, together with the disabled and wounded, approached 30 million!

The majority of the infrastructure, the factories, the wealth that had been created through the great toil and enthusiasm of the Soviet people, through two decades of socialist construction, was destroyed and looted by the Nazi invaders. The figures are staggering: 1,710 cities were turned into rubble, 70 thousand villages and towns were burnt, 32,000 industrial enterprises and 65,000 kiliometers of railway lines were fully or partially destroyed. 98,000 Kolkhoz were ransacked, as well as 5,000 Sovkhoz and Machine Tractor Stations, thousands of hospitals, schools and higher education institutes and libraries.

For this reason, the Soviet Union, its people, the Red Army, the Communist Party of the Bolsheviks which was at the head of this titanic struggle, its youth the Komsomol, deserve the recognition and gratitude of all those who honour the anti-fascist victory. As the smallest tribute to this immortal epic, everyone must condemn the wretched attempts to blacken its name, something which the organizations and mechanisms of the bourgeois class and capitalism are constantly attempting.
The victory of the Soviet Union, with J.V. Stalin as its leader, over Nazi Germany and its allies was achieved due to: the role of the working class soviet power in the creation and organization of the defensive buttressing of the Soviet Union. Due to the advantages offered by the socialization of the means of production and the central planning of the economy. Due to the leading role of the popular masses, with the working class as the leading force. To the role of the Communist Party as the revolutionary workers’ vanguard. It is a hugely important historical lesson for the present and future of the revolutionary movement.

The salvation of the Soviet Union would not have been possible if it had not traveled, in the 20 years after the end of the civil war that followed the October Revolution, an enormous distance along the road of consciously planned socio-economic and cultural development, socialist construction.

The Soviet epic is a legacy for all those who struggle to establish socialism-communism. It does not belong to governments like Putin’s , pillars of Russian imperialism which exploit the 9th of May to ideologically reinforce the capitalist restoration in the USSR, hijacking the sacrifices of millions of communist men and women and concealing who created the soviet achievement and for what reasons they did so.



We defend the historical truth, we highlight the lessons from the heroic struggle of the peoples.

The KKE is proud that it was the instigator, organizer and main provider of men and women to the great EAM-led resistance of our people.

The national liberation movement of our country, the armed struggle of ELAS, emerged as one of the most mass movements in the occupied countries, together with that of Yugoslavia. All the national liberation movements, the partisan units, through their heroic armed struggle pinned down hundreds of enemy divisions. They did a significant amount of damage to the occupation armies.

We are inspired and we learn from history in order to deal with the tasks of the present and the future with greater maturity and readiness.
The KKE addresses itself to the working class, the poor popular strata and especially to the young men and women and calls on them to seek out the truth, the real facts and the reasons that caused global and local wars, the rise and domination of fascism-Nazism in certain countries.
The inter-state unions and every kind of official organ that serves capitalism harbour unalloyed hatred for May 9 1945, because it is the symbol of the antifascist victory of the peoples. They are attempting to erase it from the people’s memory, to distort its content, to turn the historical truth on its head. This is a component of their anticommunist-antisocialist propaganda in order to conceal the organic connection of the Nazi-fascist monstrosity with monopoly capitalism and the major responsibilities of the bourgeois and social-democratic parties. The European Union is in the frontline of this organized and dirty campaign.

They must not achieve their aims. The working class and the popular strata, the scientists, the intellectuals, all the people who do not accept the distortion of history and anticommunism have a duty to oppose them. All those who understand that historical knowledge and the scientific conclusions that arise from it are essential resources for the consciousness and the victorious struggle of the peoples and youth against the iron boot of the dictatorship of the monopolies and the horror of the imperialist wars. So that they can finally put an end to the womb that gives birth to these phenomena and the terrain that nourishes them.



This is what determines the task to protect the peoples and younger generations from the great threats against them which are created by the sharpening imperialist competition, the capitalist crises, the great impasses of ageing capitalism that is in decay.

As the great communist intellectual, Bertolt Brecht, underlined:

“In fascist countries capitalism only survives as Fascism, and Fascism can only be resisted as capitalism, as the most naked, brazen, offensive, and deceitful form of capitalism. How does someone propose to speak the truth about fascism, to which he is opposed, if he does not propose to speak out against capitalism, which produces it? How will this truth have practical importance?”
The KKE, with a sense of responsibility, vigorously defends the historical truth and highlights the lessons from the heroic struggle of the peoples and the communist movement. It considers that it is a primary task to systematically research and utilize in the formation of its strategy the conclusions from the struggle of the revolutionary movements. It courageously underlines its own mistakes and weaknesses and those of the movement. The prettifying of reality is alien to communists. There is an abyss that separates our criticisms and self-criticism from the slanderous ideological offensive of the KKE’s and revolutionary movement’s enemies, as well as from the idealization and one-sided focus on mistakes which is characteristic of opportunism. Our motives and aims are diametrically opposed to these approaches.

With a century’s worth of experience, struggles and sacrifices for the people and socialism, the KKE highlights the need for a consistent ideological-political front against every form of capital’s dictatorship, such as the Nazi-fascist one.
Fascism emerges from the bowels of the capitalist system and is not merely the result of a form of management e.g. the neo-liberal policy, as the opportunist and social-democratic forces of Europe are claiming. It is one of the forms used by the monopolies to exercise power. It also defends capitalist ownership of the means of production, the exploitation of man by man. Particularly in conditions of capitalist crisis, poverty, unemployment, and the decay of the governing bourgeois parties, the bourgeois classes utilize the Nazi parties in multiple ways, as fortified redoubts to serve its interests. It utilizes bourgeois activity which, with its extreme nationalism and alleged “solidarity”, casts a net over popular forces, the unemployed, ruined petty bourgeois strata and assimilates them.

The KKE in a well-substantiated way reveals to the people that the bourgeois class and the capitalist state abolish or bypass bourgeois democracy, bourgeois parliamentarianism and legality, which they themselves had established. When their interests demand it and they judge it to be necessary, they carry out military and political coups, suspend their own laws, in order to intensify state and every other form of violence and repression, restrictions on any political and trade union freedoms.

The KKE stresses that the struggle against fascism, for the defense of the workers’ rights and the people’s gains must not be detached from the struggle against the monopolies, against capitalist exploitation and capitalist power, that it must not slide into alliances with bourgeois and opportunist forces which seek to rescue the parliamentary form of the capitalist dictatorship. The goal of working class power must be a firm commitment. The goal of the people’s alliance as a social alliance with an antimonopoly-anti-capitalist direction, as a working class-people’s opposition against bourgeois power should not change its direction or its content. Only in this way can the people’s struggle safeguard its prospect.
The imperialist wars are a result of the major sharpening of the inter-imperialist contradictions. During the 20th century, our planet was engulfed in the flames of global imperialist wars on two occasions. Both the 1st and 2nd World wars (1939-1945) were the result of the significant exacerbation of the inter-imperialist contradictions and the struggle for the redivision of the world. These contradictions intensified even further due to the existence of the Soviet Union, in combination with the global capitalist economic crisis (1929-1933). After a certain point, they could not be resolved other than through an armed confrontation between the capitalist states. Both before and after the outbreak of the 2nd World War, the goal of the two imperialist blocs, fascist and non-fascist capitalist states, was the destruction of the first workers’ socialist state, the USSR, which was a beacon for all the peoples.

Both the two global imperialist wars, as well as the hundreds of local ones that occur due to the interests of the strong capitalist states, were monstrous imperialist crimes against humanity, including thousands of crimes of mass murder of unprecedented savagery and unspeakable acts. However the 2nd World War surpassed the previous one. It lasted 2,194 days and extended over 22 million square kilometers. Over 110 million people were enlisted into the regular armies. Over 50 million people died, both military and civilians, in the war.

In our country, The dead reached 405,000 (deaths from hunger, executions, battles, from the Greek-Italian and Greek-German war, thousands who were exterminated in the concentration camps, mainly Jews from Thessalonica, etc.).

After the 1st World War, despite its defeat and the Versailles Treaty, Germany was able to become a strong imperialist power again, in essence due to the backing it received from the victorious capitalist powers in order to turn it against the Soviet Union.

There is conclusive evidence that the great economic and military power of Germany was acquired thanks to the direct support provided to it by the USA, France and Britain. Its first military operations were tolerated by them. Their financial and monopoly colossi played a leading role in reinforcing Germany and continued to cooperate with it during the 2nd World War, something that was tolerated by their governments. The Catholic Church, social-democratic, conservative and other bourgeois parties of the so-called Centre, along with the business groups, supported Hitler and Mussolini, while after the war German war criminals staffed NATO and the secret services of “democratic” imperialist states.

The mass popular base which they acquired demonstrates that the capitalist crisis, poverty do not on their own lead the popular masses to a radical position. On the contrary, under certain conditions, they can lead to retreat and a distortion of class and political consciousness, to the emergence of reactionary mass movements.

The first military operations began the 19th of September 1931, when Japan attacked Manchuria and a few years later (3 October 1935) Italy attacked Ethiopia.

On the 18th of July 1936, the fascist-military movement of Franco emerged in Spain against the Popular Front government. So the Spanish Civil war began, which ended in spring 1939 with the victory of the fascists.
Germany and Italy played a decisive role in this development, providing enormous assistance in terms of military personnel and equipment to the Spanish fascists. There was also the hypocritical stance of the strong capitalist states, Britain, France and the USA, which in the name of alleged ‘non intervention” and the policy of “appeasement” towards the fascist danger and war, deprived the Spanish people of the necessary means to fight and in this way they helped Franco and his allies.

A characteristic example of the role of the social-democratic governments was the stance of France’s bourgeois Popular Front government (with Leon Blum as its Prime Minister), which politically assisted Franco in his offensive against the Spanish people and left the fascist organization in France undisturbed, as the same time when the French bourgeoisie, its parties and the Catholic Church created, reinforced, and armed fascist organizations (‘Croix-de-Feu » etc). The Popular Front government in France, amongst other things, handed the Spanish military fleet that had sheltered in French ports to Franco, and returned the Spanish gold, which was the security for its loans.

In contrast, the only who reacted and expressed their support in a practical way with the people of Spain were the USSR and the international communist movement. The Soviet Union was the main supplier of weapons, food, medicines, and clothing which it transported by sea, taking many risks breaking through the ambushes of the German and Italian submarines. It also provided specialists and officers. The International Brigades, consisting of thousands of international volunteers, above all communists, including hundreds of Greeks, made a special contribution, and fought at the side of the Spanish people, even paying the price with their lives..

On 25 November 1936, Germany and Japan sign a pact of anti-communist military cooperation, the “anti-Comintern pact” against the Communist International.

In parallel, the USA, France and Britain tolerated the annexation of Austria by Germany on 12 March 1938, while a year later, on 12 April 1939, Italy conquered Albania.

On 29 of September 1938, The Munich Agreement was signed which handed over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia to Germany. The agreement was signed between Chamberlain and Daladier, the Prime Ministers of Britain and France, on the one hand and Hitler and Mussolini on the other. Chamberlain indeed stated that the Munich Agreement guaranteed peace in our time.

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland, which had refused to sign a military assistance pact with the USSR in case of war. The agreements of mutual assistance signed by Poland with Britain and France were not honoured and the war declared by Britain and France against Germany was not in fact waged. It became known as the “Phoney War”…

Nazi Germany, the spearhead against the USSR

The USA, Britain, France maintained a negative stance to the constant efforts of the Soviet Union to conclude an anti-fascist agreement. Indeed they continued their policy of undermining the USSR.

It was very clear that the non-fascist capitalist states supported and gave impetus to Germany so that it would attack the Soviet Union as quickly as possible. In these conditions and in order to gain breathing space, its leadership signed the “German-Soviet non-aggression pact”, known as “Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement”. the on the 23rd of August 1939

Using this agreement as a pretext, every enemy of the USSR, amongst them the opportunists, attempt to turn reality on its head with lies and distortions. They conceal the fact that the “Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement” was signed, only after the Munich Agreement and the failure of all the previous pro-peace efforts of the Soviet Union, including the efforts to establish an anti-Hitler front.

Especially as regards Poland, they conceal the fact that 3 months before the German offensive, the USSR had proposed a mutual assistance agreement in case of war, which the Polish government rejected and did not allow Soviet troops to enter its territory even when the Germans were on the advance and threatening to occupy all its territory.

They also conceal the fact that the areas of Poland, which the Red Army detached from it in 1939, were territories of the USSR, which had been occupied by the reactionary Polish government in 1918-1921, after fierce battles against the revolutionary peoples of Russia. Then, Poland exploited the “favourable” circumstances of the international imperialist military intervention against the October Revolution in order to expand their domain eastwards.

The “Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement” ensured 21 valuable months of peace, which proved to be priceless for its war preparations in light of the inevitable German offensive. It lasted until the 22nd of June 1941, when Germany violated it. Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the well-known operation “Barbarossa”, with a military force the like of which the world had never seen. Hitler was not alone in believing that he would conquer the USSR in a few months and crush the first socialist state and exterminate the communists.

Meanwhile, when Germany attacked France (10 May 1940), which it conquered on the 25th of June without meeting resistance, and when it had conquered most of the countries of Europe, the tactics of the British bourgeoisie changed and Churchill replaced Chamberlain as Prime Minister (10 May 1940). Later on the USA also declared war on the Germany-Japan-Italy Axis, after Japan’s attack (7 December 1941) on Pearl Harbour in the Pacific. Apart from anything else, the interests of the Japanese monopolies came into conflict with the respective interests of the US monopolies in the Far East.

An indicator of their goals was that the USA and Britain opened a second front in Europe against the Axis with the Normandy landings, on 6 June 1944, 3 years after the creation of the “antifascist agreement” (12 July 1941) which included the Soviet Union! This happened after the epics of the Red Army at Stalingrad and Kursk, which was when the tide of the war turned against the “Axis”, and 1944 was the year when the Red Army chased the German troops out of the Soviet Union and was preparing to liberate the occupied countries of Europe. The governments of the USA and Britain were rightly afraid that the Red Army might enter Berlin alone.

The 2nd World Imperialist War demonstrated that the confrontation between capitalism and socialism continued unabated in the framework of the antinazi-antihitler alliance. Imperialism never loses sight of its strategic goal. No provisional alliance with a section of it in the context of a war must lead to a dilution of the class criterion.

The KKE, from the very first moment, gave a clarion call of resistance against the invader

On the 28th of October 1940, fascist Italy declared war on and invaded Greece from the territory of Albania. The Glixbourg-Metaxas dictatorship expressed bourgeois power in cooperation with Britain, with the consent of the bourgeois parties that gave a vote of confidence and toleration to this government. The mobilization of the people and their heroism on the battlefields in the Pindus Mountains temporarily impeded the invasion.

The KKE, from the very first moment, gave a clarion call of resistance against the invader, despite the fact that it had been seriously damaged by the Metaxas Dictatorship, with thousands of its members in prison and exile. With his first open letter, which was published on the 2nd of November 1940, Nikos Zachariades, the General Secretary of the CC of the KKE, from the state security prison in Athens, where he was being held, called on the Greek people to lend all their strength to this struggle, stressing that “The prize for the working people and the completion of today’s struggle must be and will be a new Greece of the world of work and of freedom, liberated from every foreign imperialist dependency, with a truly popular culture.” Two other letters of N. Zachariades followed, which correctly characterized the war as imperialist and called on the army-people to overthrow the government and take the defense of the borders into their own hands with the support of the Soviet Union. These two letters were never published because, unknown to Zachariades, they were delivered by informers into the hands of the state security. The “Old Central Committee” of the KKE had from the beginning the same direction as N. Zachariades.

In addition, the imprisoned communists from the very first moment demanded to be released in order to fight at the front, something that was refused however by the Metaxas Dictatorship, which then later handed them over to the German occupiers.

On the 27th of April 1941, German troops entered Athens and the country found itself under the triple occupation of Germany, Italy and Bulgaria. A section of the bourgeois political world chose open collaboration with the occupiers. Another section escaped, together with the Palace, abroad (Cairo, London), taking enormous amounts of the state’s gold reserves with them. A third section stayed in Greece and stood aside from the struggle, looking in an opportunistic manner to future developments, while another section undertook an anti-occupation struggle, while at the same time cooperating with the occupiers in order to strike against EAM-ELAS and the KKE.

The KKE devoted all its forces to organizing the resistance against the occupier. A handful of communists who were free and others who escaped from the prisons began the struggle to develop the resistance in the difficult conditions of the triple occupation and the defeatism and passivity fostered amongst the people by the bourgeois forces. It was the basic instigator, guide and provider of men and women for the EAM resistance. It gave its best children to this struggle. At its initiative, the Workers’ National Liberation Front was created immediately after the beginning of the occupation (EEAM-16th of July 1941) and on the 27th of September 1941 it founded EAM. EAM and its organizations (ELAS, EPON, Ethiniki Allilegi, ETA, OPLA, ELAN) rallied the great majority of the working class and the popular strata.



EAM organized the people’s resistance and saved them from hunger, ELAS (The People’s Liberation Army) developed a very significant armed struggle. The seeds of a new power were created in the liberated areas (local government, People’s Justice). The people’s cultural ascendance was nourished in these conditions. On the 10th of March 1944, The Political Committee of National Liberation was formed (PEEA), the central political body that administered the liberated areas.

It organized elections the conditions of the occupation (23 of April 1944) for the “National Council”, which had its headquarters in Koryschades (30th of April 1944). Women and young people over the age of 18 voted for the first time in these elections. About 1,800,000 people voted. It should be noted that in the parliamentary elections of 1936, 1 million people took part, as women did not have the right to vote then.

Thanks to the activity of EAM, not one worker was sent to work in the German factories, with the exception of those the Germans had captured as hostages. Thanks to EAM not one person was sent to fight against the Soviet Union, while ELAS forced 8 to 12 enemy divisions to remain in Greece.

Thousands of communists and other supporters of EAM gave their lives. Kaisariani, Kournovo, Akronafplio, Kokkinia, Haidari, Ai-stratis, Monodendri, the “Pavlos Melas” camp are only a few of the places where these sacrifices were made.

It is a provocation and an act of desecration for SYRIZA to present its ascendance to government as a vindication of EAM’s struggles, when it continues to politically defend the bourgeois class and its power and the country’s attachment to the imperialist organizations and alliances, like NATO, the EU and the USA, when everyone knows that EAM and ELAS came into armed conflict with imperialism in order to serve the just cause of the people and not simply for the provision of a few soup kitchens and crumbs for the people.

Conclusions from the strategy of the KKE and Communist International

This mass popular struggle was not able to achieve the final victory. The KKE, despite its contribution, was not sufficiently strategically-politically prepared to pose the issue of conquering working class power as a result of the resistance struggle and as the prize of the people’s struggle. It was not able to form the preconditions for a trajectory that could, at least in terms of the subjective factor, have led to victory, to workers’ power.

It detached the struggle against war and fascism-Nazism from the need to fight for workers’ power.

The coexistence of the class content of the people’s struggle with the national-liberation element, aside from the other political and military conflicts against the military organizations of the “collaborators”, which in any case contain a class element, was confirmed by the armed confrontations between ELAS and the anti-Hitler pro-British organizations like EDES and EKKA. The constant conflicts with the British also lead to the same conclusion, as well as the unabated ideological and political struggle of the Greek bourgeois governments in the Middle East against PEEA and EAM-ELAS, against the Antifascist Military Organization (ASO) in the Middle East.

Especially after the crushing of the Germans at Stalingrad (2 February 1943), the thinking and activity of the British, Greece’s bourgeoisie, including the collaborationist government led by I.D. Rallis, was focused on how they would control the postwar/post-occupation developments, how they would safeguard bourgeois power in Greece. The reason for this was that the divided bourgeois class and disreputable bourgeois political forces were faced by a robust armed people’s movement guided by the KKE. Their basic choices had deep class criteria. They supported the formation of EDES and the Security Battalions, which were created by the occupation governments with the main aim of dealing with the armed people’s movement of EAM-ELAS. They, together with the Greek government in Cairo, utilized repression in April 1944 against the heroic Antifascist Military Organization (ASO), which had been created in the Greek army in the Middle East, and sent 20 thousand antifascist-militant Greek officers, soldiers and sailors to concentration camps. The heroic struggle of the people of Athens, the armed conflict against the British and the bourgeois state in December 1944 expressed this reality and the need to fight for workers’ power.

The deeper reasons that did not allow the KKE to take the options that would have advanced the struggle of the armed people’s movement towards the conquest of workers’ power flowed from the contradictions in its own strategy and that of the Communist International (CI). Problems of ideological and strategic unity manifested themselves throughout the CI’s entire course in relation to the character of the revolution, the character of the coming war after the rise to power of fascism in Germany and the stance towards social-democracy. The dissolution of the CI (May 1943), despite the problems it had regarding unity and regardless of whether it could have been maintained or not, deprived the International Communist Movement both the centre and the potential to elaborate its revolutionary strategy in a coordinated way so that it could transform the struggle against imperialist war and foreign occupation into a struggle for power, as a unified task for every CP in the conditions of their countries.

The problematic strategy of stages which it had in the period 1941-1944 was based on the decision of the 6th Plenum of the CC (1934), on the decisions of the CI (7th Congress) and the 6th Congress of the KKE in 1935. This strategic line was expressed at the 2nd National Conference (1942), as well as in the Programmatic Declaration “People’s Rule and Socialism”. Mistaken political choices of the KKE’s leadership were made on this basis, such as the Agreements of Lebanon and Caserta. These agreements also had the feature of compromise with bourgeois forces.

More generally in the capitalist west, the CPs did not form a strategy of transforming the imperialist war or the national liberation struggle into a struggle for the conquest of power. The strategy of the communist movement did not appreciate the fact that the contradiction between labour and capital was contained inside the antifascist-national liberation character of the armed struggle in a series of countries, so that they could place the problem of power on the agenda, as socialism and the communist perspective are the only alternative solution to capitalist barbarity.

The war created conditions characterized by the significant sharpening of the class contradictions inside many countries, but the antifascist struggle only led to the overthrow of bourgeois power in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, thanks to the decisive support provided by the Red Army, and the USSR in general, to the people’s movements.

The attempt to rewrite the history of the 2nd World War

Particularly after the victory of the counterrevolutions in the former socialist countries (1989-1991), the attempt to rewrite the history of the 2nd World War has taken on the dimensions of an intensely coordinated campaign.
Imperialism is attempting to erase the contribution of the communist movement in order to conceal the achievements of the socialist system. They are attempting to manipulate the younger generations with black propaganda in order to subjugate them in a mass way to their crimes today. Anticommunism is expressed by the global ideological and political activity of capital’s forces in order to impede the people from escaping the setbacks brought about by the counterrevolution of 1989-1991.

The imperialist centres conceal the fact that the unjust wars emerge from the heart and veins of the capitalist system and that they are not caused by some maniacs, as Hitler and Mussolini are often presented as being. On the contrary, the Soviet Union having eradicated the exploitation of man by man, abolished the incentive for taking part in the division and redivision of the world. It is precisely for this reason that of the participating states only the USSR was conducting a just war.

They deliberately hide the fact that the 2nd World War revived the hopes of the counterrevolutionary forces in the Soviet Union, which saw it as great opportunity to restore capitalism and consequently allied with the Germans.

They conceal the fact that the crimes against humanity were not only committed by the Axis powers, but also by the governments of the “democratic” bourgeois states.

The USA committed the most massive and awful crime of all these, when it dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (6 and 9th of August 1945), without there existing any military need to do so.

The bombing of Dresden was one of the most characteristic crimes of the USA-Britain (13-19 February 1945) despite the fact that it had no military importance for the outcome of the war. The bombing reduced the city to rubble, and over 120,000 people lost their lives and priceless cultural wealth was destroyed.

The bourgeois staff manufacture monstrous lies and falsifications in order to slander the USSR

The anti-communist “centres” label resistance “terrorism”. They present the exemplary punishment of the collaborators as being the massacre of civilians. They argue that the basic reason for the creation of the “Security Battalions” and their collaboration with the occupiers was the need to protect “innocents” from the bloodthirsty rampaging unleashed against them by the communists.

The anticommunist centres fabricate monstrous lies and do not hesitate to utilize slanders-provocations of the Nazis in order to throw mud at the USSR! A characteristic example of this is the so-called “Katyn massacre”. EU governments and organs as well as those of other countries accuse the USSR, despite the fact that the execution of the Polish officers took place, according to the findings, after the autumn of 1941, when the region had been occupied by the Nazis. It is well-known that the head of Nazi propaganda himself, Goebbels, in his diary recognized that the Germans committed the crime, that the bullets found were German and gave instructions for this to be concealed and for the slanderous propaganda campaign against the Soviet Union to continue.

The imperialist and opportunist propaganda even claims that the peoples of the USSR fought and resisted due to the terror exerted on them by the state’s leadership! It is anti-communism bordering on the irrational. The surge of initiative, heroism and sacrifice demonstrated by the majority of the Soviet people could only be and was only the result of conscious participation and discipline. It is inconceivable that those who built socialism could have done it conditions of terror, those people who transferred thousands of factories and enterprises from the western regions to the hinterland of the Soviet Union so that production could continue. Those who, amidst war, rebuilt the destroyed regions, when the German armies had abandoned them. Hundreds of thousands of women started to work in the factories, replacing the men, who were fighting at the front, in production. More than 1 million women became drivers and mechanics in the Kolkhoz. Over 200,000 became responsible for production units and presidents of Kolkhoz, while 1 million took part in fighting, at the front and in the partisan units.

The bourgeois, enthusiastically supported by opportunism, continually and repeatedly produce propaganda about the “division of the world” that was allegedly agreed to at Yalta (11 February 1945) between the USSR and the USA-Britain. They are not only slandering the Soviet leadership, Red Army and proletarian-socialist internationalism, as they always do, but they exonerate the imperialist interventions of Britain and the USA in Greece. At the same time, they incriminate the armed struggle of the people in December 1944 and between 1946-1949, because despite its defeat, they are afraid of its legacy. The heroic struggle of the people of Athens and Pireaus in December 1944, as well as the struggle of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) were a milestone and the most intense moments of the class struggle in Greece.

The EU, playing the leading role in the anti-communist hysteria, established the 9th of May as the “Day of Europe”, canceling out the “Day of the People’s Victory”! It is no accident that the expulsion of the German armies and liberation of the countries of Eastern Europe by the Red Army is labeled as occupation! The deserters from the German army, who defected to the opponents and chiefly to the Red Army, are essentially considered to be a “national shame” in Germany and Austria.

The EU and the USA support the attempt to historically rehabilitate and vindicate the fascists in the countries of the Baltic and Ukraine, who during the 2nd World War aligned with the Nazis. They labeled them “militants for democracy” because they fought against the Red Army and Soviet power. And while the fascist crimes of the SS legions, the so-called “Ukrainian Liberation Army” and other similar organizations are well-known, they present them to the younger generations as “patriots” and “democrats”. The official propaganda in the Baltic countries reached the point of presenting the concentration camps as “reformatory centres”.

Recently the EU and the USA, in the framework of their competition with Russia, openly intervened in the developments in Ukraine in order to overthrow the elected government. They did not hesitate to support fascist forces in order to promote their geopolitical designs.

Nazism can only be dealt with by the development of the class struggle

The KKE honours the 70th anniversary of the people’s victory over fascism and calls on the working people, the pensioners, and the youth in Greece to decisively condemn and isolate Nazi criminal Golden Dawn. It is a vehicle of the reactionary theory known as National Socialism, which is a mixture of ideas and slogans of utopian petty bourgeois socialism with nationalism. It follows the examples of Hitler, the fascist regimes that butchered the peoples and humanity, the Security Battalions -the collaborators with the occupation forces- the dictatorship of 1967-1974. It promotes crude anticommunism and hatred against the labour and people’s movement. It organizes and carries out criminal acts against it. It has connections with sections of the state apparatus and especially the forces of repression and with criminal networks. It is directly supported by sections of capital.

The murder Pavlos Fissas, a 34 year old man from Keratsini, the attack against members and cadres of the KKE in Perama are part of a series of criminal attacks against immigrants, tradesmen, workers, young people that reveal the true criminal face of Golden Dawn.

The emergence of Golden Dawn and the rise of its influence in Greece occurred in conditions of a deep and protracted capitalist economic crisis, with the rapid reduction of the influence of the parties that have served for decades as pillars of the bourgeois political system, in a period when the movement has not regrouped its forces in an anti-capitalist antimonopoly direction. Golden Dawn utilized the vague “anti-memorandum” rhetoric that was also used by the “leftwing” SYRIZA, concealing the real causes of the crisis and the ferocious attack against the people’s rights, the role of the EU etc in order gain support and an audience for its fascist demagogy. It utilized the well-known slogans about the “kleptocracy”, “loan sharks”, “thieving politicians”. In addition, it was accommodated and covered by various activities that were permeated by the reactionary and disorienting slogan “parties out, trade unions out”. Golden Dawn is being reinforced by the anticommunism and the hatred which is fostered by the system towards the workers’ and people’s struggles. It was benefited by the promotion of the reactionary theory of the “two extremes”; by the demagogy and the racist ideological constructs of the bourgeois parties regarding the issue of immigration, which is a product of the imperialist wars and interventions, of the uneven development and the internationalization of the capitalist market. It is fed by the decay of the bourgeois system, by the EU guidelines which equate fascism with communism and demand measures be taken against “extremism” and “radicalism”.

The people and the movement should not be complacent despite the arrests and the trials, in relation to the murderous attacks, both of the leading cadres of Golden Dawn and of those cadres who actually implement the decisions. No one should forget that Golden Dawn was provocatively promoted and prettified by a large section of the mass media, and that there are attempts to utilize it in the various plans for the reformation of the political system. The coalition government of SYRIZA-ANEL also bears great responsibilities as cadres of both parties are fostering an attitude of tolerance vis-à-vis Golden Dawn utilizing various parliamentary procedures as a pretext.

Golden Dawn and Nazi activity cannot be tackled using theories about “constitutional”, “parliamentary” and “democratic” arcs, by the alleged improvement of the functioning of bourgeois democracy, as other political forces like SYRIZA, PASOK, “POTAMI” suggest in various ways.

The reactionary bourgeois state is neither wiling nor able to tackle Nazism root and branch; neither can the so called “antifascist fronts”, an alliance of the labour-people’s movement in cooperation with bourgeois political forces. Only the people’s alliance, the development of the class struggle with the aim of overthrowing the monopolies’ power, the capitalist system can deal with Nazism. Only the mass struggle and the decisiveness of the people and the youth can delegitimize and root out Golden Dawn from among the masses, once and for all.

It is a duty and a necessity for the teachers, scientists and artists to expose, fight and create antibodies in the schools, youth and society more generally against the poison of fascism-Nazism.

The only alternative solution is socialism-communism

70 years after the end of the 2nd World War, the lessons from it reinforce the theoretical position that the only alternative solution to capitalist barbarity is socialism-communism. It is the liberation of the working class from exploitation, the establishment of the new social relations, the social ownership of the means of production, central planning, the active participation of the workers in the organization-management of social production and social services.

The study of our party’s history up until this point and of the international communist movement demonstrates that the biggest problem was the lack of the ideological-political and organizational readiness of the CPs to direct the workers’-people’s uprising in revolutionary conditions towards the overthrow of capitalist power. Historical experience shows that the complete preparation must be achieved in non-revolutionary conditions. The precondition for this is: That the current economic and political struggle must not be detached from the main revolutionary political task, whether the conditions characterized by dynamism or retreat. The goal of workers’ power must not be sidelined by some transitional governmental goal on the terrain of capitalism, in the name of dealing with the deterioration of the working class’ and popular strata’s living conditions, due to the deep and prolonged economic crisis, imperialist war, the open terrorism against CPs and the labour movement by Nazi-fascist organizations, the intensification of state violence etc.

The recent economic crisis has sharpened the competition and the contradictions between the capitalist states and their various imperialist alliances which are becoming increasingly aggressive against the peoples in order to reinforce their geopolitical position, for the division of the markets, the control of the energy resources and the transport routes. The sharpening of the contradictions and the escalating imperialist interventions and wars in Ukraine, Middle East, North Africa, Balkans, etc are outlining even more intensely the threat of a generalized imperialist war in our wider region as well as around the world. The conditions that create or stoke up serious dangers for our country are: participation in NATO and the military structure of the EU, in their aggressive plans and interventions, the bourgeois nationalist aim to enhance Greece’s geopolitical role in the imperialist campaigns and wars. The constant competition of the bourgeois classes in the region, on the terrain of which the repeated provocations of Turkey and the greying of the Aegean take place with the toleration and support of the USA-NATO. The existence of many war flashpoints in our wider region, in which our country’s bourgeois class is one way or another involved or could be involved in, as the development of military cooperation with Israel etc. demonstrates.

The KKE has taken a clear position regarding an imperialist war in a complicated situation which is being formed e.g. in the Eastern Mediterranean, in the Balkans, in the Middle East, taking into consideration the domestic and external contradictions: the workers’ and people’s movement must not be trapped in the framework of the aims of the Greek bourgeois class or follow any possible different choices, or identify itself with a differentiated stance of sections, parties or institutions of the bourgeoisies in the framework of the two-sided schema of imperialist war-imperialist peace.

The struggle for the defense of the borders, for the defense of the sovereign rights of Greece from the standpoint of the working class and the popular strata cannot be separated from the struggle for the overthrow of capital’s power. In the instance of Greece's involvement in an imperialist war, either in a defensive or aggressive war, the Party must lead the independent organization of the workers'-people's struggle in all its forms, so as to lead to the complete defeat of the bourgeois class, both the domestic one and the foreign invader, and link it in practice with the conquest of power.

The developments increase the need to reinforce the labour-people’s movement against the Nazi-fascist criminal intimidation, as well as against the reformist, opportunist cooption, which negates the potential for the situation to be radically changed.

The endurance and ability of the KKE as an ALL-WEATHER PARTY is a precondition to bring to the fore all the virtues of the working class, as the class that will liberate itself from exploitation, crises and imperialist wars, together with its allies.


For this reason, the KKE has set as its goal, as it approaches its 100th year anniversary, and seeks the strengthening of its ability at every level, in every workplace and sector, in every village and city so that: it plays the leading role in the development of the struggles without detaching this activity from the propaganda and struggle for the historic mission of the working class, the abolition of the exploitative social relations. To connect every economic and political struggle, in the framework of any correlation of forces, with the main political task, the struggle for revolutionary workers’ power. To repel the anti-communist offensive and to be vigilant.

We honour the antifascist struggle of the peoples, we are inspired and learn from it.
We continue with greater urgency and understanding.
The KKE, with the blood of its best sons and daughters, has demonstrated its devotion to the working class, the just cause of the people, socialism, proletarian internationalism!
We advance with optimism and determination.
Our conviction that the 21st century will be the century of the communist movement’s revival, new dynamic and victorious socialist revolutions is deeply and scientifically founded. Our era is the era of the transition from capitalism to socialism.
The negative correlation of forces does not discourage us, because we know it will be overturned.

We have confidence in our positions that are borne out be the developments, we have confidence in the working class.

The KKE enters the confrontations ahead more experienced and better equipped.
We advance ahead with only one goal: to meet the challenges of the times, to build the great people’s anti-capitalist alliance that will fight against the anti-people political line and will put an end to the barbarity of capitalism, wars, crises, exploitation, poverty, unemployment and oppression.

In order to vindicate the struggles and sacrifices of past generations, in order to pave the way for and fulfill the dreams and contemporary needs of the people and youth through the worker’s-people’s victory, socialism-communism.


APRIL 2015
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE KKE

http://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/ON-THE-70TH-ANNIVERSARY-OF-THE-END-OF-THE-2ND-GLOBAL-IMPERIALIST-WAR-AND-THE-GREAT-ANTIFASCIST-VICTORY-OF-THE-PEOPLES-9-MAY-1945/

Our right to be Marxist-Leninists
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution expresses his profound admiration for the heroic soviet people who provided an enormous service to humanity

Author: Fidel Castro Ruz | internet@granma.cu

may 8, 2015 12:05:40

The 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War will be commemorated the day after tomorrow, May 9. Given the time difference, while I write these lines, the soldiers and officials of the Army of the Russian Federation, full of pride, will be parading through Moscow’s Red Square with their characteristic quick, military steps.

Lenin was a brilliant revolutionary strategist who did not hesitate in assuming the ideas of Marx and implementing them in an immense and only partly industrialized country, whose proletariat party became the most radical and courageous on the planet in the wake of the greatest slaughter that capitalism had caused in the world, where for the first time tanks, automatic weapons, aviation and poison gases made an appearance in wars, and even a legendary cannon capable of launching a heavy projectile more than 100 kilometers made its presence felt in the bloody conflict.

From that carnage emerged the League of Nations, an institution that should have preserved peace but which did not even manage to stop the rapid advance of colonialism in Africa, a great part of Asia, Oceana, the Caribbean, Canada and a contemptuous neo-colonialism in Latin America. Barely 20 years later, another atrocious world war broke out in Europe, the preamble to which was the Spanish Civil War, beginning in 1936.

After the crushing defeat of the Nazis, world nations placed their hopes in the United Nations, which strives to generate cooperation in order to put an end to aggressions and wars, such that countries can preserve the peace, development and peaceful cooperation of the big and small, rich or poor States of the world. Millions of scientists could, among other tasks, increase the chances of the survival of the human species, with billions of people already threatened by food and water shortages within a short period of time. We are already 7.3 billion people on the planet. In 1800 there were only 978 million; this figure rose to 6.07 billion in 2000; and according to conservative estimates by the year 2050 there will be 10 billion.

Of course, scarcely is the arrival to Western Europe of boats full of migrants mentioned, traveling in any object that floats; a river of African migrants, from the continent colonized by the Europeans over hundreds of years. 23 years ago, in a United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development I stated: “An important biological species is in danger of disappearing given the rapid and progressive destruction of its natural life-sustaining conditions¬: man.” I did not know at that time, how close we were to this.

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, I wish to put on record our profound admiration for the heroic Soviet people, who provided humankind an enormous service. Today we are seeing the solid alliance between the people of the Russian Federation and the State with the fastest growing economy in the world: The People’s Republic of China; both countries, with their close cooperation, modern science and powerful armies and brave soldiers constitute a powerful shield of world peace and security, so that the life of our species may be preserved.

Physical and mental health, and the spirit of solidarity are norms which must prevail, or the future of humankind, as we know it, will be lost forever. The 27 million Soviets who died in the Great Patriotic War, also did so for humanity and the right to think and be socialists, to be Marxist-Leninists, communists, and leave the dark ages behind.
http://en.granma.cu/file/img/2015/05/medium/f0007309.jpg

http://en.granma.cu/reflections-of-fidel/2015-05-08/our-right-to-be-marxist-leninists

9th of May, 2015. Lugansk, Lugansk People's Republic.
The Victory Parade in Lugansk has become the biggest parade for 70 years. 800 servicemen of all the units of the LPR People’s militia and cadets of the Lugansk Cadet Cossack Corps participated in the parade. About 30 units of military equipment, including APC-80, IFV-1, tank T-72, self-propelled howitzer “Gvozdika” and towed artillery were demonstrated to the citizens and guests of Lugansk. After the military parade, there was the “Peace March”. Participants of the “Peace March” were coordinators of many patriotic campaigns, veterans of war and labour, fighters-internationalists, young people of Lugansk, representatives of the LPR Federation of Trade Unions, activists of the Lugansk public movements and non-governmental organizations.

https://www.facebook.com/TruthfromUkraine/posts/1645770688979610

Photos at link.

http://youtu.be/0jWE9eVL0LU

http://www.southfront.eu/the-great-patriotic-war-to-the-70th-anniversary-of-the-great-victory-war-scenes/

More Photos/videos from Colonel Cassad:

Victory Day in Minsk http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2180227.html

Victory Day in Sevastopol http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2180064.html

Victory Day in Grozny http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2179615.html

Good piece. "The timidity of doltishness" is the best description of Obama and his actions that I have ever heard. Maybe the "doltishness of absurdity" would be good, as well. We could start a contest.

Obama's "poisonous legacy" grows. From his cold-blooded, murderous "hit list" to his callous disregard for police executions of black and brown citizens; from his working the deal for the Ukrainian fascist coup to his sending mercenaries to murder civilians in the Donbass; from his funding and arming fanatical death squads in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen to his brazen blind-eye on Israeli murderers in Palestine Obama has shown himself to be worse than Bush - either of them, and worse than Clinton - either of them. You have to back to Nixon, maybe back to Truman, maybe back to Andrew Jackson to find a more hideously bloody shell of a man.

The unmitigated gall that it takes for this bought and sold cipher of a human being to piss on the graves of the men and women who seventy years ago saved the world is beyond my ken. Maybe some one can forgive him, not me.

Cranes (Eng subs)


http://youtu.be/THeGsS_Skew

Beautiful.

You keep posting shit that makes me cry. I am too old for this...

Good piece. "The timidity of doltishness" is the best description of Obama and his actions that I have ever heard. Maybe the "doltishness of absurdity" would be good, as well. We could start a contest.

Obama's "poisonous legacy" grows. From his cold-blooded, murderous "hit list" to his callous disregard for police executions of black and brown citizens; from his working the deal for the Ukrainian fascist coup to his sending mercenaries to murder civilians in the Donbass; from his funding and arming fanatical death squads in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen to his brazen blind-eye on Israeli murderers in Palestine Obama has shown himself to be worse than Bush - either of them, and worse than Clinton - either of them. You have to back to Nixon, maybe back to Truman, maybe back to Andrew Jackson to find a more hideously bloody shell of a man.

The unmitigated gall that it takes for this bought and sold cipher of a human being to piss on the graves of the men and women who seventy years ago saved the world is beyond my ken. Maybe some one can forgive him, not me.

If we were on twitter I'd RT ya.

The O man is big on dissing folks, all the wrong ones. Fucker even took a cheap shot( by omission) at my old man, mentioning the WWII vets who went to college on GI Bill but not mentioning those who didn't. Chopped liver I guess. A small thing but it flew all over me.Class.

Beautiful.

You keep posting shit that makes me cry. I am too old for this...

I was going to say some profound bullshit but yeah, me too.

Military parade in Upper Pyshma

https://pp.vk.me/c624127/v624127765/5c1fd/78g4TI5IWUE.jpg

May 9, 21:00


I really thought nothing more shocking than Kadyrov in Grozny today is not expected to accept, but no. In Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan) is such a performance built. That is to say creatively developed a well-known slogan.
But it's okay. Suddenly, one of the coolest parades today in Verkhnyaya Pyshma. Maybe not in terms of size, but in terms of the amount of equipment in those years on the run, just wow. Some samples here just did not expect to see.
This collection could be on the main parade in Moscow to start up.


http://youtu.be/Dxd7dzmz644

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/

Google Translator

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was justified

colonelcassad
May 10, 20:28


From Putin's meeting with Merkel, Putin's comment proved to be remarkable with respect to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
From the point of view of history sounded very correct theses - pact was acquitted, and Poland is to blame. Actually elements of this position were traced earlier, just now again identified that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact more in Russia is not considered to be something out of the ordinary, and is justified in the circumstances for a diplomatic solution, but the Poles themselves angry Pinocchio, that the threat of Germany attacked refused to enter into a pact with the Soviet Union.


http://youtu.be/DBcv2PyTZo8

Actually, in this regard it should be noted that domestic long-term work of historians on the topic of parsing the various fraud related to this pact, yielded results. Changed public opinion on this issue, and the ruling elites in relation to the pact as early as the beginning of the change of zero. What was previously considered "shameful page in the country's history," now become a viable solution for Soviet diplomacy, which corresponds precisely to the historical truth.

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2181168.html

Google Translator

About the "Immortal regiment"

http://user.vse42.ru/files/P_S1280x852q80/Wnone/ui-554eadd3e5cf97.58182157.jpeg

May 11, 12:08


Tezisno about "Immortal regiment."

http://szaopressa.ru/sitefiles/rn/655/Articles/bessmertnyj-polk-moskva-.jpg



1. Last year, he participated in the organization of the action "Immortal Regiment" in Sevastopol, when we came Lanovoi. My colleagues then still engaged in scrubbing swastikas and obscene inscriptions from the arch at the entrance to the city, where he performed at the opening Lanovoi busts of Catherine the Great and Potemkin. Well, memory remains diploma signed by the artist, but as these shares were new to us, no stocks can not do. However, the action took place and passed quite successfully. This year the number of participants has only grown, which generally indicates that the action has taken root in Sevastopol and "Immortal regiment" has already become a traditional event on May 9th.
It should also be noted that a huge role in promoting the action played Lanovoi that his trips Russia has contributed a lot for the promotion of this initiative into the public consciousness. 2. Regarding symbols. I do not particularly like the thesis of "vnepolitichnosti" which laid the creators of the shares. In fact, as shown by the last "Immortal regiment," do not like it, not only me, so in the columns were many red flags and portraits of Comrade Stalin, who sailed into the human river reminding about who and under what flag regiments commanded the immortal, once power we from Comrade Stalin prefer to hide. In this respect, the initial idea is obviously beginning to enter into a conflict with the popular attitude to the Great Patriotic War, which do not want to be perceived as a vneideologizirovanny distillate and bring into action quite clear and recognizable characters with whom he associates victory. It is therefore not surprising that, that even those who criticized this part of the shares were satisfied, because our people did everything in their share in making your edits. What is correct. The human river of memory looks more organic when there is also the ordinary heroes of that war, and the red flag, and a Guards ribbon and Stalin. The victory was total and a synthesis of people and characters, just and must reflect the memory of a true story. I saw it all, so there are no questions to the ideological content of the action I have these festivals arose. We hope that the organizers will not have a bad idea of the next Victory Day avoid rackets red flags and portraits of Stalin. In this regard, mass action, the best opportunity for the manifestation of civil activity - even if the organizers will be against, people can still come with red flags and portraits of Stalin, hardly imagine how they would be cast out from the procession. So it all depends on the citizens themselves, which this year put the instrument to "vnepolitichnost." 3. Regarding the presence among contactees initial organizers of the "Immortal regiment" of foreign funds that can then specify that the organization "Immortal regiment", there are two internal flow - one is closed in the initial organizers, another to Moscow, where he runs Nikolay Zemtsov. So all rowing the same brush is not necessary. If foreign non-governmental NGOs with some objectives are operating in the plans which is the use of "Immortal regiment" for the purpose of undermining the ideological Victory Day, it is the whole work of the respective intelligence agencies engaged in opposition to foreign NGOs. Judging by the fact that the stock appeared Putin bodies such threat at the moment do not see or simply see and intercept control, embedding it in the official discourse. The very same action, according to its official support at the highest level found to be useful and desirable. As far as I know, in the last year of its planned output at the highest level, but to fully realize the desired purpose, it succeeded only in 2015. It turned out pretty impressive. 4. Regarding admin.resursa. Already we went to yell that if not all, of the many to catch up. In Sevastopol, I can say that the action is based largely on the efforts of ordinary society activists and advocacy. Of course, somewhere in the officials could order a traditional "zeal" to break into the process with a typical administrative dubolomstvom. That simply can not believe in this, especially since the rise of Putin was hardly spontaneous and work to ensure organizational issues certainly was serious. But this is not determines the overall organizational level, most people are quite willingly to share with their own printed portraits of ancestors. We also try to share buried under special cases, which did not specify the total amount of the process. 5. Regarding the photos thrown posters. Let us assume that the poster simply lay down to take on the enterprise (if printed centrally on the team), but let's say that there really is an example of bydlyachestvo and unconsciousness. I'm about to such as figures who hang themselves from head to toe Guards ribbons. I have no complaints about the people who tie themselves ribbon claims exclusively to uncultured characters profanes the idea and Dressing ribbons / taking up a poster with his grandfather, because it is "fashionable." It's like a psevdokommunistami the USSR and pseudo-believers in Russia. The form seems like, but if you start digging the content ... So here, if a person threw a portrait of his ancestor and go blow yourself a beer in the park, it is in my opinion done for asshole and an example of what our society is not quite healthy. But I do not think these are the characters determine the weight ratio of citizens in the history of the Great Patriotic War and to their ancestors. If there is in our country something of the sacred for the vast majority of citizens, as is the Great Patriotic War and win it. So from my point of view, particular manifestations of moral decay do not determine the total content of a positive action, although of course be attempt to extrapolate these private moments of the entire share overall. For most people, who were carrying portraits of their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers, this procession was it really that way to honor the memory of their ancestors, and even a little touch with the great generation that washed up on their shoulders the brunt of that terrible war. In general, turned out well, even better than expected. The action at the moment in this format is very useful in terms of preserving the memory of the Great Patriotic War and promote respect for their own ancestors. Of course there are various shortcomings and schools, but why then they do not want to cling to, but I want to note especially of the mass awareness of the role of the citizens of the fastening of the Great Patriotic War in the national consciousness. At zero, when continued attempts to dismantle the "myth of the Great Patriotic War," Kara-Murza very well said - "The Great Victory stands as a lone obelisk in the desert of oblivion", and he is constantly trying to knock him down. After the celebration of May 9, 2015, you can already confidently say that it failed to knock down and people started to remember. And we must remember, for the consequences of historical amnesia is clearly seen watching the Ukraine

http://www.novayagazeta.ru/storage/c/2014/01/16/1389851622_496835_56.jpg

http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/

Google Translator

MAY
11
Alchevsk: A picture worth more than a thousand words

By Alexey Markov, political commissar, Ghost Brigade Unit 404


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YxchhbyCGmQ/VVDzmg397TI/AAAAAAAAB7k/XytxEbKyOLg/s640/21759_original.jpg

May 10: The Italian group Banda Bassotti and more than a hundred people from the Antifascist Caravan of solidarity with the people of Donbass are now returning home. You should have seen how our multilingual choir sang "The Internationale"! :-)

Source

Translated by Greg Butterfield

http://redstaroverdonbass.blogspot.com/2015/05/alchevsk-picture-worth-more-than.html

http://youtu.be/0qJxMnylAbc

Ukraine has no honor, as neither does capitalism.