Victory Day: Empty and with Questions. Signs of the Times from "NeMoskva"
This year, the Immortal Regiment march has been cancelled nationwide, citing a "threat to public safety." The exact nature of this threat has not been specified. However, many other public events marking Victory Day will still take place. notes the project "People of Baikal", in one place only Irkutsk More than 200 of them are planned.
Political scientists believe the reason for canceling the Immortal Regiment march is simple: the authorities are afraid that relatives of those killed in the war with Ukraine will also come with portraits.
«The authorities see the main threat not in Ukrainian drones, but in the fact that the number of portraits of “heroes” who died during the current SVO will exceed the number of photographs of grandfathers killed during the Great Patriotic War.», - convinced Abbas Gallyamov.
The government is encouraging people to put portraits of WWII veterans on their car windows. A group of activists from Vladimir pasted them on the "corncob", which had already flown over the city.
In Russian regions bordering Ukraine, authorities have already announced, for obvious reasons, that celebratory military parades will be held without spectators or veterans. This is the format for the 79th anniversary of Victory Day. meet Rostov, Voronezh, Kursk и Belgorod region, Krasnodar region.
В Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug one of the funeral companies suggested In honor of the holiday, there was a 10% discount on tombstones for WWII veterans and participants in the Second World War. However, the post had to be removed after a wave of outrage erupted in online groups.
Officials from Voronezh, who were tasked with decorating the city for Victory Day, decided to save money and hanged On one of the streets, there's a banner from last year. No one even bothered to blur out the obscene three-letter word starting with the letter "h."
But in Novosibirsk, there is a vigorous fight against another three-letter word: employees of state institutions forced make paper doves, but asked not to use the word "peace" because it "raises questions."
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