Despite Best Efforts, Kiev Was Not Able to Suppress March of the Immortal Regiment!

Poroshenko remains his usual self. Before leaving, he decided to insult the participants of the Eternal Regiment march in Kiev and all over the world by calling them "mummers." However, few people in Ukraine are interested in what this loser says. This year, Victory Day was widely celebrated despite the aggression on the part of radicals.

Poroshenko remains his usual self. Before leaving, he decided to insult the participants of the Eternal Regiment march in Kiev and all over the world by calling them "mummers." However, few people in Ukraine are interested in what this loser says. This year, Victory Day was widely celebrated despite the aggression on the part of radicals.

Daria Shvetsova reports about the celebration in Ukraine from Kiev.

"The Day of Victory…"

 

Tens of thousands of Kiev residents march through the streets, carrying the dearest things they have: photos of those who fought against the Nazis and the memory of their heroes in their hearts.

Residents of Kiev are gathering here near the Arsenalnaya metro station, where the streets are flooded with black and white portraits. But the faces of the heroes will never fade in the memory of those who came here today.

“I'm proud of my granddad, my family honors him. No doubt, this holiday will always be the most important one, both in my family and among all the people who came to Kiev today".

"I had this photo reshot to print in a bigger format and put in a frame. And I wrote messages to all my relatives and friends, saying "I'm going to the parade with my granddad." May the 9th is Victory Day, victory over fascism, over Nazism, over nationalism".

Today in Ukraine, they have to fight for their right to march with those who sacrificed their lives for victory. The symbols of victory, including military uniforms from the time of the Great Patriotic War, provoke aggression in people wearing a police uniform.

"Leave the woman alone!"

"Hands off! Hands off!"

The St. George ribbon, the symbol of victory and heroism, along with many other things, is outlawed in Ukraine these days. Radicals provoke the participants of the march. But those who refused to betray the memory of those who fell in the fight against fascism outnumbered them. In Kiev, they secretly pass hammer and sickle badges to each other and pin stars to their wedge caps and peaky caps.

"Let them ban as much as they want. We'll still keep moving forward".

"We came to honor their memory. So that the actual heroes remain heroes and not those whom they are trying to make heroes by deceit".

"All the people participated there—Belorussians, Ukrainians, Jews, Russians, and everyone else... You can't segregate, it's our common victory".

"Our history! Our victory!"

On the Slava Parkway, at the Stella of the Unknown Soldier, the head of the Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Onufry, led a prayer service for those who didn't return from the front-line, who died on the home front and in concentration camps, and for all the victims of Nazism.

One of the politicians who marched in the procession was Yuri Boyko.

Yuri Boyko, Pro-Life Platform: "This holiday will always be in the hearts of our people. We won't allow anyone to belittle it or belittle the feat of the Ukrainians, Belorussians, Russians, and of all the peoples of the USSR."

Memorial marches took place in dozens of Ukrainian cities: Cherkasy, Vinnitsa, Mariupol, Zhitomir, and Kharkov, while the residents of Odessa remembered the feats of every city.

The Inter Channel, like last year, broadcast the most large-scale television event, the great festive concert, Victory: One for All.

"It's Victory Day today, the day of victory in the Great Patriotic War, moreover, for each of us, it's also a day of victory over cowardice and deceit, a day of victory over betrayal".

It's a celebration of memory without borders or nationalities, receiving record-setting ratings among all the Ukrainian channels, unique guests, including veterans from all the republics of the USSR, and the descendants of those who made a difference in the fight for victory, even in concentration camps and in occupied areas.

"Gora Ali Agly Saryev from Azerbaijan, participants of the Battle of Stalingrad, participated in liberating Austria and Czechoslovakia".

"Mirka Sava Serovina from Moldova participated in the liberation of Yugoslavia".

"Alexey Petrovich Aksyonov from Estonia participated in the liberation of Lithuania and Prussia".

The audience greets each veteran on their feet. Together, they sing along with the artists. Katyusha, Smuglyanka and The Sacred War.

Tears in their eyes, they read out letters from the front-line. It builds up a truly touching emotional unity in which both the audience and the hosts simply cannot hold back tears.

"I was given a special plane for a night. I got on this plane, hugged the coffin, and fainted".

Artists from different regions of the country sang songs in Russian, Ukrainian, and French. The Anna Maria duo, who was bullied during the Eurovision preliminary round this year for being a Crimeans who refuses to disown their home region and their parents, sang the songs beloved by everyone: Upon a Hilltop with No Name and The Cranes.

In the footsteps of those who marched the streets of the city, the people in the audience raise the photos of their heroes.

Recently, Pyotr Poroshenko cynically dubbed the participants of all the memorial event "mummers".

Footage from the central streets of Ukrainian cities and Inter's ratings explain why Poroshenko lost the election.

They were carrying portraits of their fathers, grandfathers, and grand-grandfathers all the way to the memorial and laid flowers at the eternal light. Despite everything, however hard they are being intimidated by the politicians who are trying to make heroes out of those who once assisted the Nazis, the residents of the city gave their answer: you won't rewrite history on our watch. Victory Day, oh how far from us it was, Like a dwindling ember in a faded fire.

Daria Shvetsova, Timofey Ryzhinkov, Vesti Weekly, Kiev.