A Debt That Can Never Be Repaid

Every year, May 9th is a day marked around the globe by celebrations, parades, cultural events, and memorial marches. People of all nations remember the great victory of the world’s united progressive forces over the scourge of fascism in the Second World War and pay special respect to the colossal sacrifice made by the Soviet people – without which the aforementioned victory would have been impossible. Over 27 million Soviet people perished in World War II, known in Russia as The Great Patriotic War, whereas US, French, and British casualties numbered in the hundreds of thousands. 

The Soviet Union mobilized its entire country and desperately fought a war for its very existence, so that future generations might live free of fascist tyranny. For that, we all owe those heroes of yesterday a debt that can never be repaid.

Victory Day In Chicago

On May 12th, a special Victory Day concert was organized in Chicago to celebrate 79 years of victory of fascism in the Second World War. The opening ceremony gave recognition to the historic contributions made by every single constituent republic of the Soviet Union, which stood shoulder-to-shoulder in common struggle; Russian SFSR, Belarusian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR, Uzbek SSR, Turkmen SSR, Tajik SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Estonian SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, & Ukrainian SSR. 

All of these nations participated in the Soviet Union’s collective war-effort in their own unique ways, determined by their population sizes, geographical locations, production capacities, etc. Furthermore, their victory would have been impossible without the mass-scale coordination and iron-clad unity forged under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Josef Stalin.

The concert’s musical program featured a myriad of classic Soviet songs, both from the WWII period and later productions intended on immortalizing the memory of Soviet victory. These include A Hilltop With No Name (На безымянной высоте), From the Heroes of Yore (От героев былых времен), and, of course, Day of Victory (День победы) among others. 

You can watch the full concert here:

Provocations By Supporters of Fascist Kiev Regime

Despite the current regime in Kiev, its historical revisionist propaganda, and the political influence of neo-fascists and nationalists in Ukrainian society, there are many who still remember the soviet legacy of fraternity and cooperation between the peoples of Russia and Ukraine. Unfortunately, they represent a small minority in the United States – one of the main countries to which Ukrainian Nazi collaborators fled following Soviet victory in WWII.

Therefore, it comes as little surprise that the local Ukrainian nationalist community showed up to protest an event memorializing the Soviet victory over fascism, once they had discovered it on social media. Neither the fact that these Ukrainians were free to participate in what was supposed to be a non-politicized event, nor the historical truth that Ukraine had overwhelmingly fought alongside Russians in WWII, were enough to keep these pawns of US imperialism from making fools of themselves on that day. 

At any rate, the majority of people around the world remember the Soviet Union’s sacrifice in The Great Patriotic War. Every year since 1945, people have paid their respects to victory, they have done so this year, and they will continue to do for as long as the history books stay true to the actual events that make up the Second World War.

This article was originally published by our comrades at the Revolution Report.