#RUSSIAN VICTORY DAY 2021 FULL#
In this regard, Putin’s last Victory Day parade speech from May 9, 2022, was full of associations with the fight against Nazism, coming back and forth from the World War II to “neo-Nazis” in Ukraine, who “the US and their minor companions count on.” Since current Russian propaganda massively relies on broad, multichannel dissemination and falsehood, Victory Day plays an important role in it.
Interestingly, it was New Year that Stalin designated a holiday instead of Victory Day in 1947.įrom the ideological point of view, the victory over Nazi Germany turned into one of the most influential and universal tools of Putin’s rule, as it became instrumental in legitimizing the regime, suppressing political dissent, and pursuing an aggressive foreign policy, including the war in Ukraine. The past five years in a row Victory day was the most popular holiday among Russians, ahead of New Year and Easter. It was the Putin regime that systematically expropriated Victory Day into governmental policies, gradually making it the core of the state propaganda. Historically, Victory Day, on May 9, which commemorates the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, was not even a holiday in the Soviet Union, let alone one celebrated by a parade - the first ever military parade of the post-war era was held only in 1965.
#RUSSIAN VICTORY DAY 2021 MOVIE#
Keosayan, along with his wife Margarita Simonyan, the head of Russia’s state-owned conglomerate RT (formerly Russia Today), were instrumental in implementing Russian militaristic propaganda, and are under restrictive sanctions by the European Union for “actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.” Both of the mouthpieces of Putin’s regime also had dubious commercial gains through PR projects and movie production, involving in their corruptive schemes prominent figures from the presidential administration, as was revealed by the Navalny team. On April 24, 2022, Tigran Keosayan, a television host and one of the most prominent faces of the Kremlin’s propaganda machine, released a video calling the Kazakhs “cunning-asses” (хитрожопые) for “canceling” the Victory Day parade, threatening Kazakhstan and other former-Soviet states with a Ukraine-like scenario. Screenshot from the Афиша Москвы YouTube channel. Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Victory day military parade.
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