Russia, how Moscow prepares for the May 9 party: a “Z” on Red Square

Nothing leader foreignersa letter “Z” drawn in the sky above the Red Square and a security alert. Preparations for the military parade on May 9th on the occasion of V-Day

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The Den Pobedithe Victory day over Nazism in what the Russians call the “Great Patriotic War” (1941-’45), it is the party secular most felt in the Federation, also for the enormous tribute of victims immolated against Hitler: approx 27 millionone third of which are military

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The myth of Victory is one of the key elements on which the current president Vladimir Putin rebuilt the new one Russianot just how military power (the annexation of the Crimea in 2014, the campaign in Syriawhere the Moscow Air Force intervened in support of the Damascus regime), but also as a bulwark of the civilization and of Christianity against terrorism and secularism

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Symbol of narrative of the Victory and of resistence to Nazi-fascism is the so-called “Ribbon (slowchka) of St. George”, black and orange, which the Russians exhibit in this period. There slowchkanot surprisingly, it has also been used since 2014 by pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine, which in official propaganda has always fought against “the fascists of Kiev”

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Also there Russian Orthodox Church contributed to giving moral and spiritual authority to 9 May: the patriarch of Moscow, Kirill (in the picture)in the past defined the defeat of Hitler by Stalin as a “miracle of God”

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Never like this year, with the war launched in Ukrainethe parade will be an opportunity for the Kremlin to compact the spirit patriotic and show the world the power of its armed forces. The May 9 it is considered by many to be a horizon within which Putin would like close the waror at least bring home an important victory, but on the field the offensive on the South and East of Ukraine proceeds to slow. (Pictured Vladimir Putin at the 2021 parade)

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According to program released by the Ministry of Defense, eight MiG-29SMT they will soar over Red Square, the heart of the Soviet empire first and of Russia today, to form the letter “Z”, symbol of support for what Moscow immediately forced to call “special military operation” in Ukraine. (In the photo the military vehicles try the route in view of the parade)

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With the country struggling with sanctions launched by the West, on the grandstand set up near the Lenin’s mausoleumtogether with President Vladimir Putin, ai veterans and ai vertices of the state there will be no foreign leader. For the first time, no one was invited. According to reports from the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, not even the Belarusian ally is expected to participate Aleksandr Lukashenko. (Pictured Vladimir Putin at the 2021 parade)

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The Russian Defense Ministry has published a interactive map of the paradewhich shows dozens of marching columns of troops Russians, cadets and members of security agencies

The parade map on the website of the Russian Defense Ministry

The mechanized column will include 131 vehiclesamong which T-14 tanks Army and air defense systems S 400

The aerial part of the parade will involve 77 aircraftincluding long-range bombers Tu-22M3Su-57 fighters, as well as helicopters attack and transport

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After the military parade, the “Immortal Regiment” in which thousands of citizens, especially young people, are invited to unthread holding i portraits of relatives who fought during the war. Born as a grassroots initiative, it quickly spread among the community of Russians abroad and, in 2015 in Moscow, he also participated Putinwho walked with the portrait of the father (in the picture)

According to Gulagu.neta project that deals with human rights in Russia, the Kremlin is also thinking of parading the parade on Red Square 500 Ukrainian POWsin violation of the Geneva Convention

And thesecurity alert: the Muscovites who live on the Tverskayathe main artery leading to the Red Square where troops and equipment will parade, they told the site Mediazone to have received visits from agents of police asking if they lived in their condominium citizens of Ukraine