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Eighty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, this week the world witnessed a spectacular, solemn and joyous event to commemorate that historic achievement. The victory parade in Moscow's Red Square was a glorious pageant incomparable to anywhere else.
Rightly so, because the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 9, 1945, was largely the result of heroic sacrifices of the Soviet and Russian people.
The annual commemoration remains as poignant and proud to Russians as ever.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was accompanied by many international dignitaries this year to observe the parade. Significantly, with honorable exceptions, Western leaders were absent, prohibited by their toxic Russophobic propaganda and historical contradictions.
China's President, Xi Jinping, was prominent in the Red Square tribune. Again, rightly so.
The Russian and Chinese nations suffered the most in the Second World War.
The worst military conflagration in human history is estimated at a death toll of around 80 million. More than half of all those victims were among the Soviet and Chinese people.Victory Day on May 9 is usually commemorated as signifying the end of World War II. But Nazi Germany's Axis partner Imperial Japan was not defeated until August 1945. Imperial Japan's war in China was conducted with the same genocidal barbarity as Nazi Germany's in the Soviet Union.
It is profoundly revealing that the end of World War II is largely now a muted event in the Western nations of the United States, Britain, and the rest of Europe. It is eerie that such a world-shattering episode has become an increasingly non-descriptive date in the official Western calendar. By contrast, in Russia, the anniversary of the Great Patriotic War's victory is more relevant and revered than ever.
The difference is explicable. The so-called "Allied victory" over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan was always something of a charade. Eighty years on, the charade is exposed more than ever to the point where it has become untenable and embarrassing for the Western states.
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