hey, for this thing tree was staggering. that experience remains part of brushes, political and historical dna to this day. on this edition of the program, we discuss why the 3 day is honored in russia and largely forgotten in the west. ah questions unite on victory day with parades, an immortal regiment, marches, taking place across the country. ongoing both fallen and living soldiers. residents of the done by the city of mario po, opening, joined in the celebrations for the 1st time since the area with steve by the ukrainian military, 80 years ago. which is that we are very sorry that all this stopped in 2014. if we had gone further that maybe there would not have been so many victories, but i think it's a holiday. it's not even a longing. this is a joy that overwhelmed the so because for all 8 years, oh, this was permitted here. while in his picture day address, letting me put in, draws parallels between the current conflict and ukraine and the fight against the

northeast. during the 2nd world war with russia, this is the road. you know, you are fighting for your homeland to ensure that no one forgets the lesson is the 2nd load you will have so that there is no place in the world of execution is punished with an unwelcome and policy. and thank you for joining us here. an international, we're coming to you on this special may 9 victory celebration day. let's get started. fireworks marking the end of the 77th anniversary of victory de lit up the night sky in moscow. they could be seen from almost any part of the russian capital, as, according to reports,

more than $11000.00 fireworks. we used for the final stage, but they will not just seen the moscow audiences all across russia enjoyed the bright, colorful spectacle that bore to an end, another victory de grand

military parade on weight square to mark the 77 anniversary of victory over nazi germany. has wrapped up, but civilian celebrations continue across russia. huge crowds turned out for the annual immortal regimen, march and moscow and other cities. people carried photos of their relatives and loved ones who took part in world war 2. his ortiz, either patron cal report 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 hear the story 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. the world died in gulf heard 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 shows any zane powers, for example. and it is full of people. we saw cosmonaut on the international space station. we saw people in

a city beyond the arctic circle in russia in snow. this is how it's important for the people, russia, and guess who you can see here. my 4 great grandparents 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 redshirt barge in central mosque was a what i was telling you is that there was a contribution from every single person, my great grandparents that he can see on my right. well, i clearly judging from the previous years at several $100000.00 people usually take part maybe this year a record will be set immortal regimen commemorations almost took

a deadly turn in the ukrainians that you have on a russian defense system was able to convince the ukrainian baton attack on the position that's according to the russian ministry of defense, which adds that it is the 1st time such a parade has been able to take place since russian forces seize the city over a month ago. at such a new things, each has held its 1st immortal regiment position since the 2014 who locals with many children and world war 2 veterans amongst them. so that the streets of military people carrying portraits of the relatives who fought in the police. patriotic war residence or civil flowers to the memorial or rather grave, where the eternal flame has been re lit after 7 years. and the city has seen under the control of a new administration since the 3rd week of the ukraine war and the number of mario poll recently taken by russian made forces,

which is also being celebrated. a huge 300 meter long thing towards women was unfold in the city and the eternal flame was thought of. many people have been carrying portraits of their relatives and named flowers at the monument to the fallen meaningful, local se they're happy to be able to openly celebrate which day for the 1st time. in 8 years. as mario pool had been under the control of ukraine's military since 2014, which we are very sorry that all this stopped in 2014. if we had gone further that maybe there would not have been so many victim is so much struction pricing. it's a holiday, it's not even a long, and this is a joy that overwhelms the soul. because for all 8 years, all of this was forbidden here, district teacher. and yes, 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, go to the monument and lay flowers still. ah,

because he has contamination to con special significance and the capital of the neighboring lu guns for public to after a public initiative la guns said he was we named voice, shall of glad it's soviet name or be a for just the one day. no. cause what was the able to attend an exhibition of arm seized during the latest fighting against ukrainian nationalists. occasionally, for national reports from the ground, we are in central guns get this well grade paid. you would and more heroes where the mean victory day celebrations are taking place to day. the annual event working with unions victory over nazi germany in world war 2 has a completely new meaning. the here has fears, fighting ranges over on the dan baldridge in clothing here in people's republic of lebanon, to route out here quinn in neo nazi groups as a key go. mm hm.

mm hm. discipline 77 years ago, our grandfathers defeated fascist germany allowing us to live in freedom and independently mom. and today, this heroic deed is repeated by the december, who as in 1941 side by side with other nationalities, liberating our land. only this time from ukrainian invaders, 2nd sort of communal of my budget waiver. my great grandfather, finding the great patriarch war, and i am very proud of watching it is holiday in july to me. every year our family gathers to celebrate it with fireworks, to restore the memory of our great grandfathers and other veterans. here, those 4840, and i say this is the history. our great country are lou ganske and dan base as a whole. what we are proud of it. all other countries are rewriting this history,

but we must honor and remember it. mostly. those who have gathered here today talk a lot about mammaries, that naturism is evil and the world shouldn't forget about it. the pessimism looking to women, this is all on to the younger generations is the idea behind what good living memory of generations have been hot all move for today is a world war to move around right now passes the wrapping off a banner, the red flag raised by a whole year, i top the ruins off the german rates are back in 1945 move on to the republics armed forces and for the wrong news, a young man, sorry joe manor live here. they so victor, a day they organized an open air museum here at the central square of elegance with various military machinery and weapons on display,

including the ukrainian armed forces, tangs armored vehicles, and to missile defense system seized by the republican army in recent months. among them, the saxon, the armored personnel carrier used by the british army. it was seized a novel dar, some 100 kilometer away from logan's. in this conflict key of uses a lot of foreign weapons and reaching written as responsible for that will deliver it. and i hope that no matter how much more of their equipment we capture school, there will be no room on the square for it on the next victory day at the mo, mo, i'm in the u. s. and the d. you are helping that i but this is a bad decision to make and is it is wrong to support fascism. nikiya day celebration is that taking weight today all across the people's republic, august, the me here in the capital one in towns and villages all across newly liberated areas. symbolic victory, banners, morales, and raising several brawn blinds with the joint russian republican forces

relentless advance. many believe and not a victory is just around the corner, and soon people's republic of guns will see its entire territory regained. revolution i'm naughty from logan's, military grades were held in cities across the country earlier on monday, with the largest taking place in moscow. he has some of the highlights from weight square. ah

large scale parades to place in 27 other russian cities besides the capital. although many fly overs were cancelled due to bad weather conditions that did not detract from the magnificence of the occasion. he has images from the spectacular victory day parades, indifferent russian cities. ah ah, during his victory parade speech, vladimir putin praise the immense sacrifice made by the soviet people some 27000000 lost their lives, and also drew parallels between the current conflict in ukraine and the fight

against the 3rd by full name your muscle. there was everything pointed to the fact that the clash against neo nazi follows that the u. s. and there satellites, but to stay calm with something that had to happen. yoga where you locked it was becoming more and more dangerous with every passing day. and russia prevented this hostility. we had to do this, it was timely, and it was the only right thing to do. it was that decision of a strong sovereign, an independent country. 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 for execution as punishes. and nazis here, given the, given the, you know, how closely, how closely vladimir putin 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 russian soldiers were right now while are being injured are perhaps, will dying. there are they, there they're,

what they're doing is very much akin to what their great grandfathers and grandfather were doing. back in the 19 forty's, the timing is very important to us because again, of the, of russia's military operation in ukraine. again, this military operation and 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. margaret was mamma's as bricker, so like a woman, we know that in 1940 and early 1941, the soviet union went to great lengths to prevent war or at least delay 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, it had to make to defend itself from an eminence 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 all motherland on june 22nd 1941 without declaring war. the country

stopped, the enemy went on to defeat it. but this came a tremendous cost. the attempt to appease the aggressive head of the great patriotic war, proved to be a mistake, which came at a high cost for all people. in the 1st month after the hostilities broke out, we lost vast territories of strategic importance as well as millions of lives. 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 in the current climate when everything that they did when a lot of what they did back in 19454443 basically throughout the whole, the entirety of the world war when it is being, it's not erased, 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 nazi germany between fashion. so, and this is, this is something that russia has repeatedly said that it won't stand for it. and don't just stand idle and watch how history, how these, how basically, that is being is being rewritten and well erased from, from history. less than bassett or to poland. has been dealt with re paint during a ceremony paying tribute to soviet soldiers in walsall, the liquid was firm for many about crowd waving ukrainian flags, and it's not clear if any suspects were detained. so day on friday was i should away from the police officers for his own safety. the ambassador is neither. he nor other diplomat was injured in the attack. foreign ministry spokeswoman has condemned. what happened said the countries embassy, one issue of protest, opponent, political analysts, nicholas medical, which told us that victory day should be about celebration,

unity and commemoration. not for such incidence. this is a day for common ration. the drums of war eating again in europe today. and we have occasion to remember that your people have been able in the past to unite to fight against totalitarianism, to fight against an autism fascism to fight against tyrants. so this was a day respect day that european peoples had to take together to commemorate this victory and c. maybe i would come back to peace in the current situation with your situation today. instead of that actually take advantage of the situation to douse diplomat with him. let's not forget that. poland, like russia have signed a conventional diplomatic relations. in this convention article 29. it is explicitly written that the receiving state in this space, according to take all the necessary steps to protect as the world would use to protect the diplomat. freedom, person,

and dignity. this is what civilized countries do. and he has another incident, this time from the german capital, where a soviet flag was covered with black tape, a group of people in berlin also try to stop choir from singing during victory victory day celebrations ah, pertaining to his victory de address. vladimir putin accused western powers of fanning the flames of anti russian sentiment and allegedly trying to wipe out the soviet contribution to victory over the nazis. let's now examine that current attempted cancellation of russian history and culture. as the conflicts in ukraine goes on, western countries have been trying to twist certain 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 and poland. everything that is happening in poland now is happening in violation of bilateral, gorgeous, and the 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 menacing 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 attempted 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 gram headed trustees and massacre. util capacious for poland, finn and, and other east european countries and 90. 39. 9041 scenes nowadays from butcher. mary. you pull car, cough and other ukranian cities shows that russian soldiers over the past 10 weeks have penetrated atrocities against civilians in ukraine. some articles have given space for new interpretations of victory day as russia's 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 b. nazis. but it's important to remember that in 1939, that's a germany on the soviet union, son and non aggression pact, only after than that says launched a surprise attack on the ussr. in june, 1941, did the soviet union joined the anti nazi struggle board 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 canceled me system muslim functional. we hear that lately. the west, there are more and more warts 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. you are sacred law. but if i give them a muslim, well that was, it goes on of commentating defeating the nazis and they ex, this ally, as was of course, a global effort. we discussed the role and sacrifice of india in the 2nd world war,

as well as kind new delhi and moscow ties with in mathis, while an head of the peninsula foundation. and a veteran of india is a force indian participation in the 2nd one. why has been huge and significant india contributed a huge number. one is the largest one until military. why dissipated? in the 2nd world, 2400000 people are compliments. we huge bravery and b, r, y, dispassion of the soviet forces. who are instrumental in defeating germany. i am rolling back to your question but, but also, but of course we might be in almost losses. but you on, on the book with losses and beat back the nazi germany, the india, russia strategic partnership is not just a board as the west pains just a more dependency on, on the imports. it goes far beyond that. people,

the people context that's been built over more than half a century, a relationship. india is considered all the last reasons not come under pressure, not big pressure from the western countries in this particular if they can very, when it comes to that spam. meanwhile, the russian defense ministry has came that ukraine's president with assistance from the united states and bush and has launched an assault on a ukrainian island in the black sea, which has been held by russia since the early days of the war. the ministry says that since may the 7th russian forces have been repelling a tax, shooting down 8 ukrainian aircraft, which we're trying to which the island the junior group was the little bit over the past 2 days. the key of regime has made several desperate attempts to land air and sea troops on the island of domini, which is important for ensuring control of the northwestern part of the black sea furniture alone. as a result of the competent actions of the russian armed forces unit located on the

island, the ukrainian provocation was affordable for the enemy suffered heavy losses. us president joe biden has signed off on a lend lease act, which will facilitate an increase in military supplies to kid i. u. s. post abundant. rachel blevins with more on this. rachel, what do we know about this act? well, the binding ministration is bringing back the lend lease act for the 1st time since world war 2. and this time they're calling it the ukranian democracy defends act. now the program allows the united states to ramp up the supply of weapons to countries that they consider to be their allies without typical government oversight and with a promise to submit payment at a later date. however, is notable. the, historically, the lend, lease act has been used for countries that are specifically acting in defense of us national security. but in this case, the by an administration has repeatedly said that it is not attacking russia. and

it says, the weapons it is sending are for the defense of ukraine, not the united states were not attacking russia was helping ukraine defend itself against russian aggression. now, while this legislation passed through the u. s. congress with overwhelming support . there were a few members who pointed out and who warned of the new and unprecedented powers. it will be giving ukraine congress just authorized biden, to transfer virtually any weapon of war, other than a nuclear weapon to ukraine. insane. here is the link to the bill and the statutory definition of defensive article, the bill references i voted no. now this all comes after the by an administration is already signed off on more than $3700000000.00 and funding for ukraine. they're now calling on congress to approve an additional 3x3b2xb of which

will go directly to the ukranian military. now. well, this lethal aid is new and historic. it's also raising concerns about whether the us will have any weapons left to defend itself here at home. after it is done sending supplies to ukraine. we just burned through 7 years worth of javelins and that's not only important as we continue to try and help ukrainians when in ukraine . that's important. as we tried to simultaneously defend taiwan from aggression from the chinese communist party. they're going to need access to some of these same weapon systems, and we simply don't have the stockpiles at present in order to backfill what we've spent in ukraine. right now, reports are estimating that the united states is already sent ukraine, a 3rd of its javelin missiles stockpile that it had here. there's all kinds of defense contractors like lockheed martin, are pledging to double their production this year as

a lend lease act. it goes back into effect. however, you as officials have admitted that when it comes to sending weapons over to ukraine, they really don't know exactly where they're going, raising even more concerns as the u. s. and it's only supplies into unknown hands. that's rachel blevins in washington. well that's the thing now. thanks so much for joining us for victor. day. 2022. as always you can find more news and updates on our website at r t dot com. ah, ah.

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