The Immortal Regiment with nuances
More 60 Regions conduct The Immortal Regiment in person first after 2022.
🔸Procession in Yekaterinburg headed up new governor Denis Pasler and the SVEO representative Artem Zhoga, who carried a portrait of his son Vladimir, commander of the Donetsk Sparta battalion, who died in 2022.
Organizers stated that 150 Yekaterinburg residents took part in the march. Local media published photos of what was left behind the scenes: dump Metal pens for posters—people weren't allowed into the march with them. "How afraid they are of their own people," wrote some residents. "This is crazy. It's good they didn't go."
🔸In Irkutsk The communists had a falling out with government officials who were trying to interfere Carry a 6x9-meter, oversized replica of the Victory Banner at the head of the Immortal Regiment march. Officials claimed the banner would hinder the volunteers and deployed a "blocking detachment" of students.
"I see that you're hiding behind children, this is unacceptable, they are not barrier units," the head of the Irkutsk Communists, a State Duma deputy and former governor of the region, shamed the organizers. Sergey LevchenkoThey gave in to him and allowed him to carry the banner. The residents also reproached the current governor Igor Kobzevthat he is “separating himself from the people, apparently afraid” – the ranks of officials and deputies separated from Irkutsk volunteers in blue jackets who walked hand in hand.
🔸At the head of the columns, banners with the names of cities were carried. However, instead ChelyabinskFor example, they wrote "Tankograd" to emphasize the city's contribution to the production of armored vehicles.
🔸In Novosibirsk held the "Immortal Regiment on Sap" event.
🔸Above Khanty-Mansiysk flew by planes "with portraits of heroes" True, it was difficult to make out anything from the ground.
🔸In Nizhnevartovsk Immortal Regiment column laid flowers Even dogs were brought in to the monument to their fellow countrymen. They carried carnations in their teeth.
The online broadcast of the Immortal Regiment is taking place on digital screens throughout the country.
Processions also take place abroad, for example, in Indonesia. But in Kazakhstan they were banned, replacing with its action “Batyrlarga tagzym” (“Let’s bow to the heroes”).
The "Immortal Regiment" was conceived by Tomsk journalists in 2012. The movement gained mass popularity, but over time, the authorities turned it into an instrument of official propaganda. In 2022, the founders of the "Immortal Regiment" have asked do not connect them with future processions.
"I'll remember my veterans at home, I'll visit their graves, but I have no desire to take part in this circus, and the veterans wouldn't appreciate such 'care'...", they write on social networks.
Many on this day recalled a poem by a political prisoner Zhenya Berkovich:
“Whether I’ve had too much news,
Either wine for lunch,
Only at night did Sergei’s grandfather, who had fought in the war, come to him”…
