Russia: We defeated that fascism, we will beat this one too!

By Kazimierz Kryzhich, from moscow

He 9 Victory Day over Nazi Germany was celebrated in Russia in May. This 77th anniversary coincided with the 75th day of Russia's large-scale military invasion of Ukraine.. The blitzkrieg failed. The promised capture of kyiv in three or four days failed miserably. The Russian army received a decisive rebuff and, suffering severe losses in equipment and soldiers, he was forced to flee the kyiv region. The entire Ukrainian people united in the fight against Russian aggression, displaying incredible heroism, mutual aid and solidarity.

Russian troops were unable to take either Kharkiv or Chernigov, cities that were mercilessly bombarded, leaving ruins of residential buildings, schools and hospitals, destroying urban infrastructure. Maiming and killing civilians, including children, old men and women. They also failed to succeed on the eastern borders of Ukraine. And only in the south of the country, with clear military superiority, the Russian army occupied Melitopol, Kherson and blockaded Mariupol.

What the Russian troops did in the occupied territories is real fascism!! It's hard to understand how all these atrocities became possible in the 21st century., on the territory of the former USSR, in the land most affected during the Second World War by the fascist occupation.

Having failed to achieve the desired results on the Ukrainian front, Putin's generals have chosen the tactic of missile terrorism. Every day, Russian missiles fly over the heads of civilians in the villages and cities of Ukraine, bringing with it death and destruction. Every day someone dies in this absolutely savage war unleashed by the master of the Kremlin.

The fact that Russia has transformed into an openly fascist dictatorship in the course of two decades is quite natural.. The Kremlin clique headed by Vladimir Putin, having destroyed all political competitors, became the sole real owner of Russia. All the wealth of the country, privatized through the restoration of capitalism, today belongs to Putin and his entourage. And the task of the Russian authorities is to maintain the current state of affairs for as long as possible.. Thus, it is not at all surprising that pro-government rhetoric is confidently sliding towards the glorification of the Russian Empire and absolute monarchy.

An atmosphere of great power chauvinism is brewing in the country, orthodox fundamentalism and xenophobia. Russia's president already sees himself as a monarch whose historic mission is to restore the Russian Empire to its highest point.. And if not long ago Vladimir Putin declared that“the collapse of the USSR was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century”, today he affirms that the very creation of the USSR was a catastrophe.

After the occupation of Crimea, Donetsk y Luhansk, the imperial appetites of the Kremlin developed seriously. And now the Kremlin intends to occupy all of Ukraine, which Putin practically called a“not State”, and to the Ukrainians a“not town”, publicly accusing Lenin and the Bolsheviks of creating a Ukraine that never existed before. It's hard to imagine a more idiotic argument justifying the seizure of foreign territory..

Today's Russia is a symbiosis of the most repugnant features of Tsarism and Stalinism, in the context of an active process of total fascismization of Russian society. The socialist idea has been perverted to madness, and the celebration of the Victory Day of the Soviet people over Nazi Germany has turned into a severe form of"victory rage". The banners of the Soviet republics and the ribbons of the guards are practically forgotten. The Russian tricolor and the Saint George ribbon were replaced by the symbols of the Russian Empire and Russian collaborators who fought on the side of the enemy during World War II..

The stylized swastika«Z», as a symbol of the war with Ukraine, is gaining unprecedented popularity among the population loyal to Putin. The very victory over fascist Germany was completely privatized by the so-called"russian world". The former Soviet army is called«Russian» (practically no mention of other nations and peoples of the former USSR), and the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition ("Collective West") are presented by the Kremlin propaganda as accomplices of Nazi Germany, who today supposedly decided to take revenge for the defeat in that war. Russia has hardly known so many outright lies and insane distortions of historical truth in its centuries-old history..

The Kremlin authorities have imperial ambitions. They try to tame their own population with savage methods of total propaganda. Y, threaten the whole world with nuclear weapons. you have to defeat them, as well as the criminal warmongering of NATO, of ee. THE. and Western imperialism that threaten a general escalation of the war. Those who remember and honor the victory over fascist Germany, who defend the ideas of the left movement and anti-fascism, You must unite and resolutely reject fascism in all its manifestations Happy Victory Day!!