In Minsk may 9 military parade was held in honor of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the great Patriotic war. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko took the decision to hold the parade, despite the epidemic of the coronavirus. The parade in Minsk became the only post-Soviet space. The majority of participants were not masked and did not comply with social distance. We talk about why the President had taken such a risky decision.
the Procession was opened by young drummers, students of the Suvorov military school. They were followed by cadets. Past the stands carried the Victory Banner, the Soviet flag and the state flag of independent and sovereign Republic of Belarus. Cadets of the Military Academy were dressed in the uniform of soldiers of the red army. Behind these soldiers of the system were grandchildren of the Belarusian partisans, dressed and armed like partisan – in his own way. Caps, jackets, rifles and hunting rifles. A column of military vehicles was headed by the legendary tank of the war the T-34 “red” (the inscription on the turret of a tank) under the red flag.
the parade was attended by 19 Hiking ceremonial calculations and 206 units of military equipment. The convoy stretched for two kilometers. Over Minsk has flown over 40 aircraft and helicopters. There were about 3 thousand troops among them were female. They were all without masks. The event ended with a parade-ground pivot guard of honor, during which contact between the soldiers was especially dense.
Earlier the President of Belarus urged to attend the parade have recovered from coronavirus, calling them “winners”. Came if they were not known. But the winners of the second world war in the stands there were. In the frames of Minsk clearly that all veterans (and very elderly) were without masks. In General, the mask put on by a handful of spectators, and it was mostly young people.
Who was the “crowd” events and did these people voluntarily, were not known. Ordinary people – women, children, with flags, with flowers, some in uniform during the second world war, in forage caps. The Belarusian opposition says it is the students and state employees. I’m not sure. In Moscow, the same people are still walking companies in the parks and not afraid of anything. Certainly there are those in Belarus.
Alexander Lukashenko, who was also without a mask, called “mad world” not to condemn “heirs of the victory of Belarusians” during the parade: “we had no other choice.” It was surrounded by high-ranking military and government officials – all without PPE. Yes, of course, madness of the brave we sing a song, so educated. But is it worth the frenzy?
November 7, 1941 military parade was held in Moscow’s red square in honor of the 24th anniversary of the October revolution. It was an unprecedented event. The Germans in the composition of the 51st division was under Moscow, the city had declared a state of siege. All parade participants and the leadership of the USSR headed by Joseph Stalin, which is located on the podium of the Mausoleum, took a big risk. They could have died under German bombs. Hitler, on hearing the radio broadcast from red square, was ordered to bomb the parade. On the approach to Moscow that day were shot down 34 German aircraft, and red square did not reach neither. And if it flew, if I dropped the bombs, if Stalin died? Then history would have gone quite differently.
the Leaders of the Soviet Union deliberately took the risk, but whether this risk is meaningless? No. The parade turned the tide of the war and the course of history, it demoralized the enemy, he showed the world that Moscow will not be delivered. It caused an unprecedented Patriotic enthusiasm in all corners of the USSR. In fact, it was the first Victory parade.
Perhaps President Lukashenko, when planning your current parade, I presumed something like that. And perhaps even recalled the parade of the 41st year. But, in my opinion, he miscalculated.
Because the times are different and circumstances are not the same, and war is completely different. Who is Alexander G. was going to demoralize this parade? Coronavirus? But it’s not just being unreasonable, its barely even alive. He is not afraid and will not disappear, realizing the full power of the armed forces of Belarus. Perhaps the aim was to inspire the people of Belarus in a difficult situation of a pandemic and the economic downturn. But in that case, if the participants massively sick, and some of them, God forbid, dies – the effect is the opposite. If all this was done in the perspective of the upcoming August elections, the same result may be questionable.
I guess the question of the parade for Lukashenka decisive was the fact that Moscow decided not to pursue. It seems to me that Lukashenka has long experiences in relation to the management of the Russian Federation, jealousy and resentment. Frankly speaking, this policy makes me respect because he has managed to keep industrial and scientific potential of Belarus and for many years was opposed by the oligarchy of the neighboring country who sought to get his hands on it and “debit” on the Russian scheme. However, it is destructive in recent behavior in the matter of the Union state is dictated by purely personal motives.
He apparently hoped to play in this supranational formation leading role. And when I realized that the partners of the neighboring powers assign him to a secondary place, sharply played back. Here and in the issue of parade leaped this the offense: “Oh, you so? Then we – that’s so!” “This victory is our victory more than yours, and you are not worthy of it”. That is about the message of the neighbors sent the President of Belarus military parade in Minske.
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