MOSCOW — Victory Day celebrations were divided between official speeches steeped in falsehoods and insincerity and genuine sorrow for those who had fallen in the Great Patriotic War, as well as gratitude to them for saving the country.
However, in the months leading up to the holiday, the country was plunged into an unprecedented display of militaristic hysteria. The Guard’s Ribbon, or, as it is called now, St. George’s Ribbon, even adorned such unlikely objects as fruit and processed cheese in the supermarkets. Those symbols of military glory — which the authorities practically forced upon Muscovites — even showed up on …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
