In the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Polish-language media became a tool of the propaganda war. Polish readers, in contrast to readers of e.g. American, Norwegian or Israeli readers, gain access only to the transmission of 1 of the parties to the conflict. The Ukrainian position is assumed uncritically as true. In contrast, Russian, if at all invoked, is surrounded by mostly sharp frequently vulgar epithets. More often, these epithets replace any message.
To fill the apparent gap in access to sources, we post Vladimir Putin's speech of 9 May 2023. The following text is not an editorial view, it is simply a translation of the original, which each of our Readers should make critical analysis on his own.
Speech by Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin at the triumph Defilade at Red Square on 9 May 2023.
Dear citizens of Russia!
Dear veterans!
Comrades soldiers and sailors, sergeants and elder sergeants, miscans and Ensigns!
Comrade officers, generals and admirals!
Soldiers and commanders – participants in a peculiar military operation!
Congratulations on the Day of Victory!
It is simply a feast in honor of our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers who, in defence of the Homeland, made their names known and immortalized. At the cost of immeasurable courage and large sacrifices, they saved mankind from Nazism.
Today, civilization is one more time at a crucial turning point. erstwhile again, a real war has started against our country, but we have managed to defy global terrorism, we will defend the people of Donbas and guarantee our safety.
For us, for Russia, there are no hostile nations either in the West or in the East. Like the vast majority of people on our planet, we want to see a peaceful, free and unchangeable future.
We believe that all ideology of superiority is inherently disgusting, criminal and deadly. However, Western globalist elites proceed to talk about their uniqueness, turn people against each another and divide societies, trigger bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, russophobia, aggressive nationalism, destruct household and conventional values that make man human. And all in order to proceed to dictate, to impose on the nations their will, their rights, their rules, and in fact their strategy of robbery, force and oppression.
They seem to have forgotten what the crazy Nazi quest for planet domination led to. They forgot who defeated this terrible, full evil, who stood firm in defence of his homeland and spared no life for the liberation of the peoples of Europe.
We see how in many countries the monuments of russian soldiers are crushed mercilessly and in cold blood, the statues of large commanders are torn down, the actual worship of the Nazis and their associates is created, and the memory of the actual heroes is erased and falsified. specified desecration of the feat and victims of the victorious generation is besides a crime, a gross rematch of those who cynically and openly prepare a fresh run against Russia, who for this intent accumulated neo-Nazi filth from all over the world.
Their aim – and there is nothing fresh here – is to bring about the disintegration and demolition of our country, erasure of the results of planet War II, the eventual breach of the world's safety strategy and global law, the suppression of all sovereign improvement centers.
Excessive ambition, arrogance and assurance that everything is allowed them inevitably lead to tragedy. This is the origin of the catastrophe that the Ukrainian people are presently experiencing. He became a hostage to the coup d'état and criminal government of his Western masters, a bargaining chip in the implementation of their cruel, selfish plans.
For us in Russia, the memory of defenders Our homeland is sacred, we keep it in our hearts. We pay tribute to the Resistance, who bravely fought Nazism, to allied soldiers of the United States Army, Britain and another states. We remember and commemorate the military feat of Chinese warriors in fighting nipponese militarism.
I am convinced that the experience of solidarity and partnership in years of combating the common threat is our invaluable heritage. It is simply a solid pillar at a time erstwhile the irreversible decision towards a more just multipolar world, based on the principles of trust and indivisible security, and equal opportunities for the spontaneous and free improvement of all countries and nations, is gaining momentum.
It is very crucial that the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States are gathered in Moscow today. I see this as an attitude of gratitude to the military feat of our ancestors: they fought together and won together – all the USSR nations contributed to the joint victory.
We'll always remember that. Let us bow our heads before the blessed memory of all those whose lives were taken by war, from the memory of sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, grandparents, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, relatives and friends.
Dear citizens of Russia!
The Battles of Our destiny The homelands have always been national, state and sacred. We are faithful to the precepts of our ancestors and realize profoundly and clearly what it means to be worthy of the heights of their military, labour and moral accomplishments.
We are arrogant of the participants of a peculiar military operation, of all those who fight on the front line, who, under fire, safe the front and save the wounded. There's no bigger case than your military work right now. The safety of our country, the future of our statehood and our nation depend on you. You honor your military duty, you fight for Russia. Your families, children and friends are behind you. They're waiting for you. I'm certain you feel their boundless love.
The full country has gathered to support our heroes. Everyone's ready to help, praying for you. Comrades! Friends! Dear veterans!
Today, each household worships veterans of the large Patriotic War, remembers its relatives, its heroes, lays flowers under war memorials.
We are standing in Red Square, on land that remembers the teams of Yuri Dołgoruki and Dmitri Donskoj, volunteers of Minin and Pozharski, soldiers of Peter the large and Kutuzov, parades of 1941 and 1945.
Today there are participants in a peculiar military operation — they are armed forces and those who joined the armed forces during partial mobilization, Lugansk and Donetsk Corps soldiers, many volunteer units, Rosgwardia workers, the Ministry of Interior, the FSB, the Ministry of Extraordinary Situations and another services and peculiar agencies. Greetings, friends! I greet all those who fight for Russia on the battlefield who are now on duty.
During the large Patriotic War, our heroic ancestors proved that there is nothing stronger, more powerful and more reliable than our unity. There is nothing stronger in the planet than our love for the Homeland.
To Russia! To our brave Armed Forces! To Victory!
Vladimir Putin
