on the day of the 75th anniversary of the victory of the President addressed to the citizens. May 9, the whole country is celebrating together, he said: “It is our memory and pride.” The anniversary will be marked widely and solemnly, with dignity, the dictates of duty to those who accomplished the Victory. “It will be our main parade on red square, and the people’s March “Immortal regiment”, – assured Vladimir Putin.
these days, came out a few interviews that the President gave at different times. But they are United by one thing – the theme of unity of the country, its heroic past and a successful future. Vladimir Putin has described the national idea of Russia. In the program “Moscow. The Kremlin. Putin” (VGTRK), he said that it is patriotism. But not “leavened bread, musty and sour.” Patriotism is to devote ourselves to the development of the country and its progress. “This does not mean that you have to grasp only for our heroic past, we need to look at our no less heroic and successful future, and this is a guarantee of success,” the President said.
He also said that unlike the Russian national character. Russians are distinguished by historical memory. “In other countries not all people are going through such trials. And there is an understanding that if we fail to unite, the result is usually the hardest for all our people”, – said Putin. As a consequence – the realization that “in times of severe trials only salvation and the condition for moving forward is unity”.
“our people have always been, and is understanding: either we win, or we will not” – said Putin. “In the difficult testing times our people always United and rallied around the ideas of patriotism, love of country”, – he reminded.
the President stressed that Russia today “is absolutely protected from any encroachments from outside.” And we are waiting for a very sad future if 20 years ago could not hold the country, he said. Then the first priority was the integrity of the state. Putin quoted Machiavelli “divide and then conquer”: “This means that those who want to divide us, they want to rule over us. This can be applied to relations between States or in respect of a particular state in an attempt to divide it from within.”
In the movie “War of memory” on TV channel “Russia 1” the President protested that the Soviet Union trying to blame the preparation and outbreak of the Second world war and called on Western countries to condemn the division of Czechoslovakia. After all, the Soviet Union condemned the secret part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, he recalled. In 1938 the leading Western countries as a result of the Munich agreement gave at the mercy of Czechoslovakia. In collusion with Hitler entered Poland, the President recalled. Major political figures of that time said that war was now inevitable. “And the war began. What The Soviet Union here? The Soviet Union was actually the last of the major powers that had signed with Germany a nonaggression Pact” – said Putin.
Attempts to rewrite the history of the Second world war, the President explained the power struggle in a number of countries in order to energize the electorate. He also warned against the risk of a revival of Nazism, which, however, is not associated with attempts to reinterpret history is an instrument for addressing internal political issues for some countries. “The desire to hold someone responsible, to equate the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, of course, projected on today, on tomorrow, so that Russia felt necessary for something to be justified. To put us in the position of people who should feel guilty,” he said. “We do not have and can be no guilt. We put on the altar of Victory 27 million lives of our citizens, citizens of the Soviet Union,” he said. Those who are trying to rewrite history, there can be no justification, Putin said.
