On May 9, Russia celebrated in Moscow with its traditional military parade. The act, chaired by Vladimir Putin, served to honor the defeat of Nazism in World War II, but also to send a political message to the rest of the world. This is interpreted by the military analyst Yakov Kedmi, who says that the day made a clear thing: “The world saw who is with whom.”
Kedmi launched this reflection during an interview in the program V Teme De The state agency Belarusa Belta. In it, he argued that the presence (or absence) of international leaders in Moscow evidenced a division between countries that continue to defend anti -fascist traditions and others who, according to him, have preferred to forget their history or directly ally with those who fought against the Soviet Union.
“The parade showed a clear division: on the one hand, the former allies of Nazism and those who fought with him against the USSR; on the other, those who fought with the Red Army to defeat him,” he said. According to the expert, this fracture is still in force and especially affects Europe.
The analyst accused several European countries of having betrayed the memory of the combatants who faced fascism during the war, whether they were soldiers or resistance members. He mentioned directly to France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Slovakia and the Soviet Union itself as places where these fighters are now ignored, when not attacked. “They continue to go against them, even if they use methods other than those of the Nazis,” he denounced.
Faced with that attitude, Kedmi stressed that other countries went to the May 9 parade “without pressures or threats”, in solidarity with the victory over Nazism. In his opinion, that is one of the keys to the act: to make clear who keeps the memory of that struggle alive.
To close, the analyst resorted to an appointment attributed to Stalin: “May 9 is a victory party on Nazism, and on May 8, a day of mourning for those who were allied with him.”
