that experience remains part of russia's political and historical dna to this day. on this edition of the program, we discuss why the, the day is honored in russia and largely forgotten in the west. ah, russians unite on victory day with parades, an immortal regiment. march has taken case across the country honoring both fallen and living soldiers. evidence of the dawn best that you have multiple, openly join in the celebrations for the 1st time since the area was seized by the ukrainian military. 80 years ago. they were just that we are very sorry that all the stop in 2014, if we had gone further, maybe there would not have been so many victims, right. it's a holiday. it's not even a longing. this is a joy that overwhelmed the so because for all 8 years, all this was forbidden. here. while in his victory day, a great vladimir putin draws parallels between the common conflicting,

craned and the points against the northeast. during the 2nd world war. with russia as the road you do, you are fighting for your homeland and its future to ensure that no one forgets the lessons of the 2nd world war so that there is no place in the world. the execution is punishes and nazis with hello and welcome and policy. and thank you so much for joining us here on international. we're coming to live on this special may 9 victor day celebrations. let's get started. the grand military parade on wed square to mark the 77th anniversary of 50 over nasty germany has wrapped up. the civilians celebrations continue now across russia. huge crowds turned out for the annual

immortal regiment. march and moscow and other cities. people carried photos of their relatives and loved ones who took part in world war 2. he has ortiz india, patricia co proportion from the ground. i don't know a march that is bigger than this in this country. i don't know a holiday, a celebration, an event. that's more important for russians than victory day, and something that warms up the hearts of everyone as much as the immortal regiment march. now let me just tell you how this tradition was born about a couple of decades ago. it's use yes to the small russian city, came up with this idea. print out the photos of your relative, great, grand parents, grandparents. maybe someone else from your family, but took part in the warm up here, the stories from the older generation. just think about what these people went

through during these very difficult times when once again, millions of soviet citizens and other citizens from other countries or the world died in gulf. heard up, commemorate, remember, and just take these photos march. think about all this. and now what he, you see, this is the main street of moscow. bit of sky gives you compare, you can compare to upshaw's any zane powers, for example. and it is full of people. we saw cosmonaut on the international space station. we saw people as city beyond the arctic circle in russia in snow. this is how it's important for the people in russia. and guess who you can see here. my 4 great grandparents, you start an exaggeration when they say that every family was affected by the

war. there you have it. it's a hervey from everyone around me. that's what i can hear pretty much every minute here at the immortal roger in march and central boss was a what i was tell you is that there was a contribution from every single person, my great grandparents that you could see on my right. whoa. clearly, judging from the previous years, several 100000 people usually take part. maybe this year a record will be said, i will tell you all about it as the bed keeps unfolding in the russian capital. while immortal regimen commemorations almost took a deadly turn in the ukraine city of harrison where russian defense system was able to prevent a ukrainian missile attack on the procession. that's according to the russian

ministry of defense, which adds that it's the 1st time such a parade has been able to take place since rush and forces seize the city over a month ago. and in the dumbass city of mario po, recently be taken by russian lead forces. victor day is also being celebrated a huge 300 metre long st. towards women was unfold in the city and the eternal flame was solemnly let people have been carrying portraits of their relatives and lane flowers at the monument to the fallen. many of the local say though happy to be able to openly celebrate victory day for the 1st time in 8 years. as marie opal had been under the control of ukraine's military since 2014 and we were chest that we are very sorry that all this stopped in 2014. he was, if we had gone further, maybe there would not have been so many victims that so much destruction is rising . it's a holiday. it's not even a longing. this is a joy that overwhelms the soul. because for all 8 years, all this was forbidden. here, under sushi, just finance. there is

a holiday in my soul now because we have been waiting for all 8 years. we were waiting for victory day when we wouldn't be afraid to go to the monument and lay flowers that he has come in relation to some special significance in the capital of a neighboring lu guns republic to after public initiative. the name of the t, which it was known in soviet times as voice shall grad, was stored, will be just for one day, no cause also able to attend. an exhibition of om sees during the later fighting against ukrainian nationalists. ortiz maria phenomena report from the ground. we are in central got this well, great page who is in law. he rose, where the mean victory, dating celebrations, and taking last deny annual event. working with unions, victory of nazi germany in world war 2 has a completely new meaning. the here has fears, fighting radius on the non region in clothing here. mean people's republic of

language to route out to you. quinn in neo nazi groups as a key go. mm. hm mm hm. they seem to send them 77 years ago. our grandfathers defeated fascist germany, allowing us to live in freedom and independence. and today, this heroic deed is repeated by the descendants who as in 1941 side by side with other nationalities, liberating our land. only this time from ukrainian invaders. second sort of my budget waiver. my great grandfather fought in the greek patriotic war, and i am very proud of it. he knew this holiday means a lot to me. every year our family gathers to celebrate it with fireworks, to restore the memory of our great grandfathers and other veterans. i think you

have a 40 a story unless say, this is the history, our great country are lou ganske and dan base as a whole. what we are proud of it on the other countries are rewriting this history . but we must honor and remember it. you know who had gathered here today, talk a lot about mammaries, that nazism is evil and the world shouldn't forget about it. a pessimism looking to women, lessons all on to the younger generations is the idea behind. we'll get it live in memory of generations. event not all move her to days more than a world war to move around right now passes from the wrapping off the banner, the red flag raised by a soldier. i topped the ruins off the german rakes up like a $945.00 you on to the republics armed forces and throw the wrong news. a young man with

a whole victory day. they organized an open air museum here at the central square off elegance with various military machinery and weapons on display, including the ukrainian armed forces tanks armored vehicles and to missile defense system seized by the republican army. in recent months, among them, the sac song, the armored personnel carrier used by the british army. it was seized. a novi dar some 100 kilometer away from lugens in this conflict key of uses a lot of foreign weapons and 3, cham can. britain is responsible for that will do it and i hope that no matter how much more of their equipment we capture there will be no room on the square for it on the next victory day at the u. s. and the you are helping mill. but this is a bad decision to make. it is wrong to support fascism. nikiya day celebration is taking place today all across the people's republic. august little me here in the capital one in towns and villages all across newly liberated areas. symbolic

victory, banners raised in several bronze lines. teaching with a joint russian republican forces relentless advance, many believe and not have victory is just around the corner. and soon people's republic of la guns will see its entire territory regained riven ocean. i'm naughty from logan's military grades were held in cities across the country early on monday, with the launch is taking place in moscow. here is some of the highlights from wade square. ah

large scale parades to placing 27 other russian cities. although many fly overs were cancelled due to bad weather conditions that does not detract from the magnificence of the occasion. he has images from the spectacular victory day parades in saint petersburg. yes. tab, brimberg vulgar grad and festival. ah .

during his victory parade, speech flooding put and praise the immense sacrifice made by the soviet people, some 27000000 lost their lives. and also to parallels between the current conflict in ukraine and the fight against the 3rd wife. when i'm on my cell, that will have everything pointed to the class, you can to neo nazi follows the u. s. and the satellite put, the stakeholder was something that had to happen. you'll get a lot thought it was becoming more and more dangerous to every passing data. and russia prevented this hostility. we had to do that. it was timely, and it was the only right thing to do. it was the decision of a strong sovereign and in the country you are fighting for your homeland in its future to ensure that no one forgets the lessons of the 2nd mode. so that there is no place in the world for execution is punishes and not sees you. given the, given the reading of how closely, how closely, flattering potent put together these 2 events. i mean, the 2nd world war and what's going on in ukraine right now,

and of course he did say that, those people, those brushing soldiers for right now, while i being injured, perhaps dying they're a, they're, they're, what they're doing is very much akin to what great grandfather's and grandfather were doing back in the 940. the timing is very important because again, of the brushes, military operation in ukraine. again, this military operation in ukraine is being waged under very similar banners as to what the soviet union was doing when it was fighting nazi germany and its allies. liquor, whose name is a sort of a woman. we know that in 1940 an early 1941, the soviet union went to great lengths to prevent war, or at least to lay its outbreak. to this end, the ussr sought to avoid provoking the potential aggressor until the very end by refraining or postponing the most urgent and obvious preparations that had to make, to defend itself from an eminent attack. when it finally acted,

it was too late. as a result, the country was not prepared to counter the invasion by nazi germany, which attacked motherland on june 22nd. 1941 without declaring war, got the country stopped, the enemy went on to defeat it. but this came at a tremendous cost in the attempt to appease the aggressive head of the great patriotic war, proved to be a mistake which came, it's a high cost for all people. in the 1st month after the hostilities broke out, we lost bus territories in strategic importance, as well as millions of law was. we have no right to make the same mistake again. he spoke about how nathan was exploiting territories around russia and how it didn't listen to russia as well, concerns about security and safety, talking about ukraine. of course, it is especially important again and the current climate when everything that they did when a lot of what they did back in 19454440 great, basically throughout the whole, the entirety of the world war when it is being,

if not erase, but very much distorted from history like when, for example, the soviet, the red army is right now being basically when people draw parallels between the red army and the knocks germany between fashion. so, and this is, this is something that russia has repeatedly said that it won't stand for it, it won't just stand idle and watch how history, how these, how basically that is being is being rewritten. and while you're raised from, from history, that was, it goes down of commentating. if you can, the northeast and they access allies was of course, a global effort. we discussed the role and sacrifice of india and the 2nd world war, as well as current new daily moscow ties with in method, swollen head of the peninsula foundation. and a veteran of india is a force indian by the station. in the 2nd one, why has been huge and significant india contributed

a huge number. one is the largest one until military participated in the 2nd world. 2.4000000 people are complements, the huge bravery and b r y. dispassion of the soviet forces. who are instrumental in depleting germany, i'm rolling back to the operation but, but also, but of course we might be in almost losses. but doing under book with losses and beat back the nazi germany. the india, a partnership, is not just a board as the west pains just a more dependency on, on the imports, it goes far beyond people to be blue contact that's been built over more than half a century relationship. india considered. all those aspirations not come under pressure, not big pressure from the western countries in this particular way. they can very, when it comes to that, one of the countries that sustained the heaviest casualties during the 2nd world

war with china. the country lost more than 15000000 people during the war while fighting against imperialist japan. and often h and the western mash and city of ivana became an international children's shelter, including the needy from china. some of them even went on to serve on the front lines while others, while still children helped k for the wounded brought to the orphanage. he had some of their stories. ah, yup. or restore. i do remember that i was born in moscow. 936. and then when the great patriotic world gandy 1941, we were sent to the red to the city of van over 300 kilometers from moscow, where the 1st international orphanage was built.

ah, yep. when you got them. i remember when injured soldiers were brought from the front line as well as wounded civilians. the older guys acted as paramedics taken care of the engine. as for us, the little children we helped them washed band, just kept the wounded come. we sang songs to the injured soldiers and civilians danced, wrote letters during the great patriotic bull we were small, but despite a rage, we'll try to help the soviet people defeat the fascists. said we went through this war together and won this war to get a

ribbon yet vision with the dog. i have the fondest memories from life and they all finish even in such travel difficult times. it was my golden childhood and i think we received a very good spiritual education that the russian teachers but also education and it will finish in still to me. i love for my us from my profession. so i want to give my heartfelt thanks. not only to my choreography teachers, but to all the educators, to all our teachers in soviet schools, because they told me how to be a good person. me in other news, now, russia's ambassador to poland has been dance with wade paint to india. so to me, paying tribute to soviet soldiers in war for the ambush came from the me about crowd waving ukrainian flag. and it's not clear if any suspects have been detained . so gunnery was away from the scene by police officers for his own safety. the

ambassador says neither he nor other diplomatically injured. in the attack brushes, foreign ministry spokesman has condemned what happens saying the countries embassy will issue a protest to poland and in another european capital prague has pasto. miss lee stopped the title of citizen of honor from soviet military marshal ivan cornell, who led the operation to liberate the city in 1945, while international sales experts they've been. gadgets. beneath some e. u officials have been white washing and protecting the nazi groups operating in the ukraine military. europe is once again united against russia, and this is something as we have seen is the mediaeval times. and i think it is also very indicative that she is a victory. they occasion really allows a job because the victory day actually came once the red army, the soviet troops,

and russia is the successor. on the soviet union. when the sagas troops liberated europe from from naziism, we come to this paradox that people in ukraine who are actually saying that they are not caesar such and such as the the battalion or are all right, sector and many other units. and they get why i know why it was or. 1 1 actually the propaganda machinery and was trying to not only do us know how holidays, but let's say in the political west is trying to whitewash all of this and to try to present the neo nazis as the freedom fighters. and at the end of the day, even if things yet so obvious and they say ok, so what did they are? not you, they are defending europe. well, you also said that he was defending europe. there were actually both or is there

a room or 2 in occupied belgrade which were literally with the same message that we hear from a. busy from the line and here's another incident for the german capital, where a soviet flag was covered with black tape, a group of people in berlin also try to stop a choir from singing during victory day celebrations. returning to victory de address vladimir putin accuse western powers of fanning the flames of anti russian sentiment and allegedly trying to wipe out the so the contribution to victory over the nazis, it's examine now what current attempts, what current attempted cancellation of russian history and culture as the conflicts in ukraine goes on. western countries have been trying to twist sudden positive history, especially the role of the soviet union in fighting fascism and naziism. the desecration or demolition of soviet era monuments and cemeteries has been taken to

a new level, getting rid of soviet symbols as the responsibility of all local administrations. there are about 60 places on our list where such symbolism needs to be removed. moscow has repeatedly condemned walsall calling on it not to follow the lead of radical politicians. this is not the 1st time we have come across such a shameful phenomenon. the war against soviet monuments in poland. everything that is happening in poland now is happening in violation of bilateral borges andy norms of civilized communication. traditional tokens of awareness have not escaped detention either. the st. george's ribbon, a case symbol in russia and abroad and use for commemorating world war 2 east in front veterans has been banned in moldova. the president said the ribbons place is in the trash can of history of the western politicians are also not mincing their words. when it comes to comparisons between the conflict and ukraine and world war 2, every russian has learned about the siege of leningrad during world war 2. sadly,

history has repeated itself, but now it's the russian government cruelly starving ukrainian cities taking 2 completely different situations, including them together. one that involves starving a city into submission. the other that has attempts at humanitarian corridors and a deliveries. and the western media has been going even further and trying to draw historical parallels. the red army engaged in ramp headed trustees and massacre searing its occupation of a ford, poland, finn and, and other east european countries and 90399041 scenes nowadays from butcher mary polka. cough and other ukranian cities shows that russian soldiers over the past 10 weeks have perpetrated atrocities against civilians in ukraine. some articles have given space than interpretations of victory day. as russia who on ukraine continues the day will take on new meaning. it's very much about galvanizing support for russia, the present and showing off the strength of rushes, military forces, us diplomats of even accused the soviet union of being an ally of the nazis by

cherry, picking specific episodes out of a much bigger historical context, put in life sarcuse his victims of the nazi's, but it's important to remember that in 1939, that's a germany on the soviet union, son and non aggression pact, only after the knots is launched. a surprise attack on the ussr. in june 1941, the, the soviet union joined the anti nasa struggle. all of this makes not just a revision of the outcome of world war 2 and the bloody sacrifices of the soviet people they've been cancelled. was when we hear that lately, the west there are more and more warrants that the documents signed by the soviet to tell terry regime which consolidate the results of the 2nd world. war should no longer be carried out. the results of the 2nd world war, as well as the sacrifices made by our people on the altar of victory over nazis, our sacred note. but if i give them. meanwhile,

g 7 countries have pledged to shut down in ports of russian oil in the latest move against moscow. but it comes as impatient weights in some of those g. 7 countries are witty, stating, record highs, spoken concerns about a potential global hunger crisis. i your correspondence shot at to pinsky except the story. what we've seen here is a big announcement from these 7 countries, these big economic blocks that say they don't want to buy russian oil in the future . they made that announcement as they were talking to president and lensky of ukraine over the weekend. and the idea is that they say that by denying these exports of russian oil to that big economies, they could really hit hard that the artery of president putin's caught me in russia and therefore deny him the funds he needs for this war in ukraine. when is this going to happen? well, the detail has been left out, and that's precisely because certain countries a far more dependent on the imports of russian oil than others. what they have sent

though, is that this will be done timely and orderly that for trying to protect those economies that are most at risk from cutting back on that oil. meanwhile, we've seen the e u, which has similar plans to hold all imports of russian also to come under ice this weekend. we know that ministers have been talking for the last few days trying to reach agreement on this package. but so far that seems to have alluded that we heard from an italian minister over the weekend saying his country is now in a war economy. and that is something that could spread to other countries as the sanctions seem to not just hit russia, but they're biting back here in europe to. inflation rate in euro's own has had a new high of 7.5 percent since 1997 us sanctions against russia hurt allies. another reminder of what henry kissinger said,

it may be dangerous to be america's enemy, but to be america's friend is fatal. well soaring prices have been hitting the pockets of consumers across the common food goods, such as wheat, vegetable oils and even sugar have seen price increases. in some places, you just simply cannot buy these products any longer. now there is no sense of any food insecurity that will take place here in the e u, at least in the near future. however, there is a concern for other regions, poor regions which have more dependency. the situation is highly dramatic. due to corona extreme droughts, and now the war food prices worldwide have increased by a 3rd and are now at record levels. the world food program currently assumes that far more than 300000000 people are suffering from acute hunger and has to constantly revise its forecasts upwards. the bitter message is that we are facing the worst famine since world war 2 with millions of dead will. it is

a due to me by tuesday again to try and get through this 6, a sanctions package on russia. we know that each package is becoming more and more difficult to get all $27.00 member states to agree on that. but they will try and thrash that out again over the next few days. and it could be, as the greek prime minister has said, in a number of articles and interviews of late will the you need to do is to be careful that it's not shooting itself in the foot with the sanctions. and the sanction packages have to have more impact on russia than they do on you. countries . economics, professor jack ross miss says he expects the already solving inflation rates to keep on rising. you know, it's very clear. doyle companies, united states are doing everything they can to constrict supply before. no coven didn't. 2019 the u. s. was pumping 13000000 barrels a day. they could do that now,

but they're making sure they only pump 11000000 a day. and you know, they're going to have to provide oil to western europe now, which means even more shortages in u. s. and even more oil inflation in the usa, oil and gas in commodities, inflation has not peaked yet. it's like a perfect storm of inflation occurring everywhere. and it doesn't appear that there's any policies that we in proposed to do anything about it in the united states. they're proposing the central bank to raise interest rates to precipitate recession, were already almost in a recession. we had a contraction, a g, d p in the 1st quarter. but that's the solution that, that they're, they're planning on to crater a recession in europe. they're a little further behind that, but you know, it's runaway inflation and it looks like recession around the corner and there's no real solutions being propose. well, that's it for now. we'll be back at the top of that.