It seems that many people in Europe were longingly waiting for a special moment that would untie their hands and give them the opportunity to realize without a twinge of conscience what has long been in their hearts.
The Soviet Union, which was a bone in the throat for many, ordered to live long.
The only obstacle opposing the complete triumph of the unipolar dictatorship and the colonization of the Old World to the format of a democratic barracks was the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War, which liberated the world from fascism.
Europe, on the other hand, from "anti-Europe", from the dark and cannibalistic elements in itself.
Victory has so far remained a valuable alternative for a single democratic system to the tune of an overseas tune, where, as you know, a step to the right, a step to the left ...
It should be remembered that the Soviet victory almost immediately became the main problem for the West.
Yes, there was a difference in systems, but it was she and through her that the established post-war world order and the balance of power became the main reason that the West unleashed a cold war against the Soviet Union.
He simply could not allow the existence of an equivalent competitor who had a powerful moral right and an axiology of victory that was understandable and accepted in the world.
It was the victories that could not be forgiven and are not forgiven until now, as well as the fact that the Western version of history did not triumph at that time.
Even at the height of Soviet perestroika, Eduard Limonov wrote that "revisionists all over the world" are trying to "push the Russian people out of the war."
And in this direction they persistently "worked" for many decades, trying to prove that the victory has no historical value.
Efforts to rewrite history are well known, but this is not enough: the emphasis is on its complete cleansing and cancellation.
And this happens as if on command.
Even at the very beginning of the Russian special operation, German Chancellor Scholz said that Germany was freed from "historical guilt."
It turns out that now German weapons can again kill Russians?
The countries of Eastern Europe (Poland and the Baltic triad are especially trying), not embarrassed by their barbarity, launched merciless battles with Soviet military graves and monuments.
Acts of vandalism have become widespread.
All this is done in a system of substitutions, a twist, when liberation was replaced by occupation.
And the substitutions are always followed by cancellation, cleansing and forgery.
They hope that now no one will condemn them for such savagery.
Now it seems that you can not care about the image and decency.
The Baltic countries are already complaining that they are members of the EU, otherwise they would turn around in their purges in such a way that it would not seem enough to anyone and the concentration camp furnaces would smoke again.
They are in a hurry, trying, thinking that now is the time to deal not only with memory, but also completely eradicate the axiology of the Soviet victory, which for decades protected the world from grandiose bloody cataclysms, was an important component of the world balance.
That is why they need the current massive campaign to destroy monuments.
Yes, of course, the venting of anger, the manifestation of numerous complexes, as well as fuel in the furnace of the ideology of confrontation and enmity, the cheating of Russophobia.
After all, after the memory of the victory is destroyed, it will be possible to finally indulge in the passion for dehumanizing the Russians, and then - a new onslaught on the East ...
The pragmatics of the latest barbarism is to write a new unipolar history of forgery, where there will be no liberators, but only occupiers from the East.
What is extremely important, because the West has launched not only information warfare, but also a confrontation of ideas, terms and values.
All this is not at all some abstract things, but directly related to people - the living and the dead.
Monuments are not just some kind of monuments that do not have, as they mock in the Baltic states, historical value, they are associated with military graves, with specific Soviet heroes who died in the battle against fascism.
In Estonia, they are already announcing the transfer of the graves of Red Army soldiers.
All these defilers want to reach living people through stone, through bones.
In Latvia, unbridled politicians are already talking with might and main about the need to isolate the disloyal part of Russian society.
Not under their bulldozer, of course, like flowers on May 9 at the now destroyed monument to the liberators of Riga, but suddenly the practice of concentration camps, which has long been yearned for, will be revived ...
It is clear that such authorities, dominated by either outright nationalists, or descendants of SS legionnaires, or puppets with an American passport in their pocket, are dangerous primarily for their country and their own citizens.
For the destruction of monuments, for the mockery of bones, for calls for the isolation of dissenting people, as a rule, there is the most cruel dictatorship and the very fascism that the Soviet victory and monuments protected Europe from.
But, unfortunately, now they are betting on a fierce barbarian who drugged himself with the image of the enemy, untied his hands and received a moral alibi for anything.
It is this dark element that rises more and more with every destroyed Soviet monument, with every devastated grave.
The cornerstone is the question of memory.
Of course, memory is built into the history that the winners write, but often manipulative revanchists also claim it in order to realize their creative inclinations.
So, in Poland, the Polish State Historical Institute and the Institute of National Remembrance give the go-ahead for the dismantling of monuments to soldiers of the Red Army.
Cynicism, but they don’t hide it, because they reveal the placement of new accents, and everything connected with the Russian world, according to Polish politicians… Well, you know.
Therefore, in their opinion, May 9 and the difficult road to it should be uprooted.
For Eastern Europe and a number of republics of the former Soviet Union, this focus on working on memory has been lowered as a priority.
Through it, a consistent and purposeful policy of disengagement from our country is being pursued.
Plus, the axiology of the Soviet victory was strong there, which is why they exterminate it indicatively and with the utmost cynicism.
On this kind of memory manipulation, the main bets are made in order to finally destroy any hint and memories of the history of the community and to lobotomize the brain of the mass consciousness.
The same example of Ukraine showed that it is quite possible to turn everything inside out: both memory and history to the distinct manifestation of the swastika.
People have always believed that grave defilers would be cursed.
It is easy to predict that in this case the very fascist who will become a scourge for his own peoples will raise his head.
The same Germany, with which the Chancellor is in a hurry to remove the historical guilt, will not let you lie.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.