“Parades” against the backdrop of ruins: how the occupiers are preparing to “celebrate” May 9/Boris Babin's Facebook
As predicted, the aggressor is persistently spreading the cargo cult of the “Russian victory on May 9” in the occupied territories, which has nothing to do with the tragic realities of World War II .
In particular, in Crimea, “victory parades” were announced in Kerch, Simferopol and Sevastopol, and rehearsals of these events began on May 3.
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At the same time, the occupiers announced the “postponement of the parade” in Donetsk to the supposedly criminal “full control over the territory of the republic”, which in practical terms means that this will never happen at all; regarding Lugansk, the occupiers generally hush up this “uncomfortable question”.
Also earlier, the aggressor announced a “victory parade” in Mariupol, where stubborn battles of the Ukrainian defenders of the city at Azovstal are still continuing.
The population of the occupied East of Ukraine explains the abolition of “parades” by a simple fact – the destruction of the corresponding groups of invaders to such a level that there is simply no one to conduct “parades”.
Crimea becomes the epicenter of propaganda
Also in April, individual collaborators announced their intention to “celebrate the victory” in occupied Berdyansk, Kakhovka, Melitopol and Kherson. It is not yet known whether the relevant events will take place – after all, both the occupiers and the local population have nothing to celebrate, but for opposite reasons.
The former understand the hatred of the absolute majority of the population towards them, while the latter are well aware of the horrors and risks of the established aggressor of the punitive regime. It is noteworthy that the “victory parade” was also canceled in occupied Tiraspol.
Thus, it is the occupied Crimea that becomes the “epicenter” of Russian propaganda for May 2022, but even there the “holiday” becomes very specific. This is due not only to the “special” moods of the occupying army after the bloodbath at the front, but also to the general state of the infrastructure.
For example, as it “suddenly became clear” in Sevastopol a number of key monuments of World War II, such as the iconic armored train and the Bayonet monument and sail” are, due to the negligence of the occupiers, in an extremely neglected state. The urban infrastructure of Kerch and Simferopol is also in critical condition, and the recent “fire” visit of the so-called “head of the Crimean government” to the east of the peninsula, of course, did not improve the situation.
And therefore , although the Crimean “parades” will not pass by the destroyed sleeping areas and mass graves of the civilian population, as planned by the aggressor in Mariupol, they will also take place in Crimea against the backdrop of the ruins that the “Russian victors” criminally brought to the occupied peninsula.
