On the 77th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised that “success will be ours” as he thanked former Soviet republics.
“Today, our warriors, like their forefathers, are fighting side by side to rescue their native land from Nazi filth, certain that, like in 1945, victory will be ours,” Putin stated, as Russian troops invade Ukraine.
“Today, it is our shared responsibility to prevent the resurgence of Nazism, which brought so much sorrow to people in many nations,” Putin stated. “New generations may be worthy of their dads and grandfathers’ memories,” he continued.
Putin also made many allusions to citizens on the “home front… who blasted Nazism at the expense of innumerable sacrifices” besides the military.
“Unfortunately, Nazism is raising its head once more,” said Putin, who has claimed that fascism is raging in Ukraine, posing a threat to Russia and the Russian-speaking population in the country’s east, which Moscow claims is “liberating.”
“Our holy responsibility is to hold back the ideological heirs of those who were vanquished,” in World Battle II, which Moscow refers to as “the great patriotic war,” Putin said.
He also expressed his hope for “a peaceful and just future for all Ukrainians.”
On Monday, Moscow will have a massive military parade to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Putin has described Russia’s February 24 incursion in Ukraine as a “special operation” to “demilitarise” and “de-Nazify” its neighbour, a former Soviet republic that achieved independence in 1991.
