Monuments and Putin’s Chef
While the Russian reputation was tarnished in Eastern Europe, it was not fully destroyed. Now it is. One of the things nations like Latvia and Poland are doing is destroying world war two monuments to the red army.
Moscow is not happy because this is ignoring the feats of the Red Army in liberating Eastern Europe. In Russia, the Great Patriotic War is nothing short of civic religion, sometimes more legend than reality.
This is how one of the Telegram channels reacted to this.
Looking at this “monumental fall” to Soviet soldiers throughout Eastern Europe for the time being (the key word is “so far”), the expression about the wedding was remembered …
A good deed is not called marriage.
So it is in our history.
If you unleash an aggressive war against your neighbor in order to restore the empire, and proudly call this meanness “Liberation”, you should not be surprised that other neighbors begin to demolish monuments with the inscription “To the Liberators …” with the stubbornness of fanatics.
One of the many evil ironies in this story is that by unleashing this shameful war of conquest and calling it liberation, the Kremlin itself dishonored the memory of Soviet soldiers who gave their lives in the fight against fascism.We all lost something in…