By Union Borotba (Struggle)
Starting next year, the official holiday will be May 8, the “Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation,” just like in Europe. What is different other than the date? Look carefully: what’s the point of the renaming, what is to be remembered, and what needs to be reconciled? The official interpretation is the need to remember all the heroes of Ukraine, not only those who fought against Hitler. And the need to reconcile the Red Army and Bandera, the soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian and SS Division Galicia, and their descendants.
But is it the same in Europe?
Is it possible, for example, that France would announce that Marshal Petain and General De Gaulle equally “fought for France?” The founder of the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, made a half-hearted attempt to “think this way” and was driven from the party by his own daughter. As they say, he was kicked out of the Gestapo for cruelty. Criminal prosecution for such “reconciliation” exists in Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and the Czech Republic. In Germany you will face punishment if you glorify individual members of the SS, or, for example, say that Hitler saved Germany from unemployment in the 1930s. Countries emerging from fascism have learned the lessons of history well.
Who needs it and why?
The mystery lies not in history, but in the true causes of the current situation in Ukraine. Our country has turned into an “occupational sector.” The country is de facto managed by the U.S. ambassador, the natural resources are transferred to transnational corporations (see efforts by Firtash and Co.), an association agreement with the EU will turn Ukraine into an agricultural raw-material appendage of Europe, Lebensraum im Osten.
For a country in such an unenviable position, it is not appropriate to celebrate Victory Day; the colonial administration comes up with new festivals and new symbols for us, cancels the old, and prohibits those who disagree or are just not loud enough in praises of the new system, in order to jail or shoot them in the head.
Let’s remember the lessons of history — even in the darkest times of occupation and dictatorship, resistance continues. “The Red Orchestra,” “Edelweiss Pirates,” “Young Guards,” these are examples and methods of resistance in which you can easily engage. The main thing is to act. Starting the fight against the regime is not as difficult and dangerous as it might initially seem. Examples of an “easy start” for those who want to act, but do not know how:
In Odessa, journalist Artyom Buzila was arrested; while Andrei Sokolov sits in the prison in Mariupol.
Post on social networks about this, using the hashtags #FreeBuzila and #FreeSokolov (take precautions, use an anonymous browser like TOR).
The authorities banned communist symbols.
Remember your Pioneer childhood, wherever possible use the image of the hammer and sickle and the red star, let them see that we are everywhere.
In the words of Chairman Mao, “ A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”; take this step on May 9 – Victory Day.
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