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Russian President, Vladimir Putin, assured that Russia will firmly defend its interests and the security of the country , and warned against those who try to revive the Nazi ideology and those who again gestate “aggressive plans” .
World War II “brought so much unbearable trials, pain and tears that it is impossible to forget it. And there is no forgiveness or justification for those who again develop aggressive plans ”, said the president before veterans and authorities in his speech in the Red Square during the military parade of the 76 anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
Putin made these warnings when relations with the US and much of Europe are at their lowest point and when the sanctions and expulsions of diplomats intersect, as well as the mutual accusations about the culprit of this deterioration of ties.
Accompanied only by a foreign leader , the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rajmón, Vladimir Putin argued that only decades “separate us from those times when the Nazi plague was forming in the center of Europe.”
The Russian leader referred to red flags at the time that were ignored as l as “slogans of rational and national superiority, anti-Semitism and Russophobia” , the latter word that the Kremlin lately uses constantly to defend itself of what it considers a hostile West towards its interests and its policies.
“History demands to draw lessons. But sadly, many of the Nazi ideology, those who were obsessed with the delusional superiority theory, are again trying to put it to service “In practice, Putin said.
” And not just all kinds of radicals and international terrorist groups, “he stressed.
The president said that today there are “attempts to rewrite history”, while recalling that it was “the Soviet people who achieved the feat” of defeating the Nazi Germany .
He also indicated that today they see followers of the Nazi ideology “who try to justify the traitors and criminals who carry the blood of hundreds of thousands of peaceful people on their hands.”
“ Our people know very well where all this is leading . Each family keeps the sacred memory of those who defended the victory. And we will always be proud of his feat, “he said.
A guarantee for this, he said, are the Armed Forces of Russia,” heirs to the soldiers of victory. ”
Putin’s words about the Armed Forces were underlined by the military parade in Red Square -marked by the cold and bad weather- in which more than 12 participated , 000 military and 190 units of military equipment, 76 helicopters and planes, which flew over the Moscow sky at the end of the stop.
The practical absence of foreign leaders on this occasion was justified by the Kremlin by the fact that it was not a round anniversary and that therefore the Presidency had not invited Heads of State and Government of other countries, with the exception of Rajmón, who was already in Moscow where he met the day before with Putin.
In the midst of a pandemic, which forced Vladimir Putin to postpone the stop to June last year, there were few masks in Red Square.
According to the authorities This was due to the fact that the vast majority of participants, such as veterans and military personnel, have already been vaccinated, as has the Russian president himself.
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