The annual military parade on Red Square in Fly remember the victory in the Second World War. Success against Nazi Germany in Russia is celebrated on 9 May, the date that has been returning for days in the chronicles of the war in Ukraine.
During the years of the Soviet Union, the parade was not a prominent event, the anniversary of the October Revolution was more important. Restored by Boris Yeltsin in 1995, Vladimir Putin made it a central event of its propaganda with a demonstration of military power in the heart of Moscow to commemorate the sacrifice of the Soviets who died in the Second World War.
The Soviet Union was invaded by Nazi Germany in World War II. This anniversary is the remembrance of the resistance to the invasion reached 25 kilometers from Moscow. The German and Italian armies were forced into a disastrous retreat. The resistance was not only from Moscow, but also from Leningrad, besieged for 900 days, but not fallen. On May 9, Russia remembers a true heroism, but which was poorly managed, with millions of military and civilian deaths. She especially celebrates the nationalism, the ideology that grew stronger after the end of communism. On May 9, Putin celebrates a victory and a commitment that the Russians do not believe is rightly recognized.
What could Putin do
A new one has been added to this historical significance this year. In recent days there have been great preparations for the parade including the Russian fighters that in formation created a Z in the sky of Moscow. According to a calculation of the BBC 10,000 troops and more than 120 vehicles could parade. There should be 77 airplanes and helicopters.
This date has repeatedly returned in Russian propaganda for the war in Ukraine. Moscow does not call the invasion of Ukraine war, it defines it special military operation. Putin could talk about the results of this operation in his speech on Monday 9 May.
The announcement could be that of the definitive conquest of the city of Mariupol. In defense of the steel mills there is that Azov Battalion which for Putin would be one of the symbols of the alleged nazification Ukraine that the Russian intervention should eliminate.
The Russian hope was to hold demonstrations also in the occupied cities of Ukraine. It is unlikely that this will happen, but in Moscow Putin could claim to have achieved the set objectives: the unification of the territories with the Crimea conquered in 2014 and the Donbass.
There are also those who hypothesize the Russian president will take the opportunity to attack the West by accusing it of widening the conflict. It would be some kind of call of the Russian population to a new war for the homeland. Among the hypotheses, the announcement of the end of the conflict or that of its enlargement.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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