How do you celebrate (if you the celebrate) the 9th of May? What is your attitude to the fact that many people now consider this holiday (and not only this) as a reason to gather and drink?
My family and I has never celebrated the Victory Day in a way many people do. Honestly, we don't celebrate it at all. However, it's still a significant day for me. For me it's importnat that this day is the day when the whole Europe became free of the nacist Germany's occupation. There's no need to describe how awful nacist regime was and how much pepole suffered from it. The Victory Day for Russia resembles how people suffering from Soviet regime managed to stand toghether and fight against another deradful regime.
Frankly, I don't have much patriotism related to the May 9th. The reason is that even though natist Germany was a horrible country, it doesn't mean that USSR that fought against it was a good one. Both contries were awful, even though USSR managed to rescue the whole Europe from German occupation. Therefore, I don't like the trend of making the Victory Day the Soviet Day or even Stalin's Day. There's nothing good in what Stalin did. If he was a better ruler, our country wouldn't suffer during this awful World War II so much or probably this war wouldn't happen at all. This Soviet spirit that fills the Victory Day is one of the most significant reasons why I never celebrated this day.
As a consequence of what I've just said, many people feel that the May 9th as a Victory Day. Still they feel that it's a feast and they celebrate it in the way the like it forgetting about the Victory. I think this happens because the Victory Day is a part of long May holidays when people have a lot of free time and want to booze. I'm sure that if the May 9th wasn't a holiday the majority of people would forget about it and wouldn't celebrate it at all, unfortunately. I think we shouldn't forget about the significance of this day and that we should try to understand its meaning without drinking liters of vodka.
My family and I has never celebrated the Victory Day in a way many people do. Honestly, we don't celebrate it at all. However, it's still a significant day for me. For me it's importnat that this day is the day when the whole Europe became free of the nacist Germany's occupation. There's no need to describe how awful nacist regime was and how much pepole suffered from it. The Victory Day for Russia resembles how people suffering from Soviet regime managed to stand toghether and fight against another deradful regime.
Frankly, I don't have much patriotism related to the May 9th. The reason is that even though natist Germany was a horrible country, it doesn't mean that USSR that fought against it was a good one. Both contries were awful, even though USSR managed to rescue the whole Europe from German occupation. Therefore, I don't like the trend of making the Victory Day the Soviet Day or even Stalin's Day. There's nothing good in what Stalin did. If he was a better ruler, our country wouldn't suffer during this awful World War II so much or probably this war wouldn't happen at all. This Soviet spirit that fills the Victory Day is one of the most significant reasons why I never celebrated this day.
As a consequence of what I've just said, many people feel that the May 9th as a Victory Day. Still they feel that it's a feast and they celebrate it in the way the like it forgetting about the Victory. I think this happens because the Victory Day is a part of long May holidays when people have a lot of free time and want to booze. I'm sure that if the May 9th wasn't a holiday the majority of people would forget about it and wouldn't celebrate it at all, unfortunately. I think we shouldn't forget about the significance of this day and that we should try to understand its meaning without drinking liters of vodka.
You are one of two 'unorthodox' persons who wrote on this topic. I can understand your attitude to the Soviet regime and to Stalin personally. But this is holiday of veterans, of old people who lost very much after the crash of the Soviet Union. For them, the Soviet Union is the peaceful time, when government manage what you should do and you shouldn't care about such a big amount of things that you should worry about now. Moreover, the Soviets very really powerful country that is why the government manages to remind to its citizens about the great past of the country because the present is rather frustrating.
ОтветитьУдалитьYes, it is true that some veterans like their Soviet past. However, for me it's impossible to say that the Soviet Union was a peaceful country (for any person). There wasn't any peaceful time during Stalin's reign. Don't forget about million people repressed, and about the fact that the USSR was in war almost all the time during Soviet period. Of course, some people managed to get used to it, but stll there was always tention in the air, and there was no freedom. I don't think veterans like the USSR itself (o maybe few of them do). They just like the time when they were young; now they're old and lonely. By the way, I'm sure that many vetarans find all these concerts, parades, etc. very awkward and confusing because few of them can truly represent the good things they had in the past. Many of these events embaress vetarans, and the parade on the Red Square is now the parade of the modern military enginire, which is like "Look, Russia has much military power". In my view, to help veterans we should be more sincere, and we should just show concern about them, love them and care about them.
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