When will the Russian government apologise to the nearly four million Soviet Russian soldiers who were captured by the Nazis and whom war criminal Stalin declared to be traitors and would be shot with their families when they came home?
Today’s Russian covernment is the took all responsebilities of USSR and working on retake all lost lands and influance that were lost by USSR and rehabilitate Stalin and it Red Fascist rejim! USSR didn’t apologise for four million Soviet Russian soldiers who were captured by the Nazis and whom war criminal Stalin declared to be traitors and today’s Russian covernment will not apologise and many of today’s Russian covernment is the took all responsebilities of USSR and working on retake all lost lands and influance that were lost by USSR and rebealetate Stalin and it Red Fascist rejim! USSR didn’t apologise for four million Soviet Russian soldiers who were captured by the Nazis and whom war criminal Stalin declared to be traitors and today’s Russian covernment will not apologise and many today’s Russians concedering Stalin a hero who won WW2 war and USSR became the one of important and Powerful State In the world
How is Victory Day celebrated in Russia?
It’s one of the biggest holiday, maybe more important than the New Year. Main components are:Military Victory Parade on the Red Square (and the smaller ones in almost every city).Family gathering and feast (f.e. I am coming to see my parents in Ural Mountains, about 2.000 km from Moscow).Visiting cemetery to tide up our Grandparent’s graves (most of them was fighting in WW2).Starting from 2012, new tradition, but nice one — Immortal Squad civil parade (Saint-Petersberg’s on a pic; more than 24 millions people took part in it this year all around Russia).Great, tremendous, government-organized fireworks in the night (every city tries to do it’s best; in Moscow there are several of points, 16 for this year ��������� ���� ������ ������).
To what extent are France and the United States allies?
During the French & Indian War (1754–1760), the American colonies made use of the British (their mother country) in order to remove the French power from America. Then the same American colonies made use of the previously defeated French in order to remove the British from America and become the United States (1775–1783). As a consequence, France is regarded as the first US ally. But…As an independent power, the US quickly reached an agreement with the British (1794), then launched the “Quasi-War”, that was an undeclared but real war, against France (1798–1800). This first half-century is a good introduction to the big picture of the US-French geopolitical relationship. France is regarded by the US as an “ally” when (and only when) the following conditions are met:France has recently been defeated or is about to be crushed by some powerful enemy and it’s desperately looking for a protection and/or a revenge;The enemy that defeated (or is about to defeat) France is perceived as a threat for the US interests.During WWI (1914–1918), the United States landed in Europe as a French and British ally, when France was exhausted by three years of the most bloody fight in its history and about to be crushed by the German Empire. This late American intervention was a decisive factor in the Allied victory, but in spite of this nominal victory WW1 was a huge disaster for France. Then the US opposed every French attempt to contain the German military recovery and didn’t support any international security system against the growing fascist threats. They didn’t act when France was crushed by the Nazi (1940). Eventually the US landed again in Europe (1944), carpet-bombed Normandy, and doing so they saved France one more time.The historic facts speak for themselves. Before being rescued as an ally, France must fall down. Paris is formally accepted by Washington as a permanent ally, but as soon as it’s trying to act as a global power or just to behave as a really independent country, it’s perceived as arrogant and selfish. In other words, France should be something like a US protectorate in order to remain a real US ally. Nothing is wrong with that, it’s just international politics and, maybe, it’s sometimes good for American interests.Of course, all that is about the relationship between France and the United States as geopolitical entities. It’s not about the mutual perception of American and French peoples, that is probably more complex, subtle and changing.