This photo is forbidden to be published in Russia.
Russia, the legal successor of the Soviet Union, banned the display of a picture set out in the title of the Soviet Army Victory Parade celebration over the victory on Nazi German on 24 June 1945. Also never have these images ever been shown on Soviet television throughout the existence of the Soviet Union with the exception of the 22 series documentary “The Great Patriotic War” where even then the images of this parade appeared until the moment when the Red Army soldiers marching with the Nazi flags and banners to the foothill of the mausoleum, but the picture was cut off when they turned 90 degrees to the left and threw the flags and the banners at the pedestal of the mausoleum. No one during the entire Soviet Union period celebrated May 9th as Victory Day. No one mentioned the parade of 24 June 1945 throughout the Soviet Union. The latter one has never been, the 9th of May Victory Day was a figment of imagination of Brezhnev and since then the Russian authorities have now served it as a sacred event that they have ever practiced. It is also unclear whether the filmed cinema rolls of this parade have ever survived in the archives. The current Russia and its Soviet Union deeply worshipping leaders would gladly destroy the rolls in full. These images, the message, and the way in which the victory parade took place on 24 June 1945 do not even bear to be watched in the present Soviet Union more than the Soviet Union in its time in Russia, nor mention it.
For tweeting this picture in 2020 in Russia people have in fact been sentenced to prison and sentenced to criminal punishment.
Valdo Praust:
Today, 75 years ago, on 24 June 1945, a victory parade was held on the Red Square in Moscow to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany. The parade lasted two hours and involved about 40 thousand Red Army soldiers. Western allies were not invited, although for display reasons one Polish Red unit who fought together with the Red Army took part in the parade to show both war and victory as an international one and to stress that (bolshevised) Poland is an ally of the Soviet Union. They also threw a lot of German coats of arms and flags into the Red Square, most of which came into the possession of the Soviet Union, because they were the ones who seized Berlin. This kind of victory parade left a signal in the memory of the people that the Soviet Union won Germany – and no hints to the Western allies, to the lend-lease and, of course, not even that during the beginning of the war, the Soviet Union and Germany were allies. After all, the 1939 victory parade over Poland was held in Brest-Litovsky with the Germans. And, by the way, Stalin did not consider the 1945 victory parade to be the final victory, as did the final victory – after all, half of Europe was not conquered by him, because the Germans attacked first in June 1941; Stalin’s attack was supposed to take place two weeks later.
The display of this picture in Russia in whatever form and in whatever way will lead to prosecution until a real prison sentence.
