Volodymyr Putin’s speech in Volgograd was intended to include the mythologeme of the war against German aggression in the propaganda arsenal of the war against democratic and sovereign Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022. It is a collection of lies and delusions bordering on delusion. How can invoking absurd analogies, such as those between German tanks in 2023 and Wehrmacht tanks eight decades ago, be anything other than delusional? Putin and his Kagebist-Fessebist cabal know exactly how to use the passions, emotions and nostalgia associated with the victory at Stalingrad. A victory guaranteed to change the course of the worst fire in human history.

The Kremlin dictator appears as the hero of anti-fascist loopholes. In this hallucinatory scenario, Ukraine is a kind of vanguard of neo-Nazi aggression. The Russian Federation would be provoked to act defensively. Do not look for logic in Putin’s camp. Everything reeks of mystifying ideology, self-pity and vengeful mythology. The mass murders of Putin’s army are blamed on Ukrainian propaganda. Only the press enslaved by Putin tells the “truth”.

There is no question of any “denazification”. Fascism is not reviving in Ukraine, it is in power in the Kremlin. Putin’s Russia is a country experiencing fascism. The official ideology is imperialist-fascist. The Volgograd speech combined the glorification of tsarism and Stalinism, gigantic ultra-nationalism, militaristic expansionism and endless contempt for the very idea of ​​historical truth, it is a falsification of the past and a distortion of the present. In 1943, the writer Vasyl Grossman was in Stalingrad as a military reporter. His mother was killed by the NazisANDyou are in the city of Berdchev. Together with Ilya Ehrenburg, Grossman published The black book of Nazi crimes against the Jewish population of the occupied Soviet territories. By order of Stalin, the volume was quickly withdrawn from circulation and melted down. In the early 1960s, Grossman wrote Life and destiny, one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The book was banned by order of ideological inquisitor Mykhailo Suslov. She was brave, honest, demystifying Translation in RomanianANDit appeared on Polirom. Read the whole article and comment on Contributors.ro