President Putin arrives in Crimea to mark the May 9 Victory Day and the peninsula’s reunion with Russia
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TRCW, Kremlin
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea - Russia today marked its traditional May 9 Victory Day, grandiosely celebrating the Soviet Army's historic defeat of Nazi Germany’s Third Reich and its final unconditional capitulation on May 9, 1945.
The novelty in this year’s edition is the arrival of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Crimea Peninsula, the ex-Ukrainian region that became a part of Russia in March this year.
The Russian president was received as mega-superstar by the region’s residents, some openly weeping with immense joy, as the man who liberated them from the yoke of unjustifiable discriminations and other forms of social, political and economic disenfranchisement, including a barbarian ban on the use of their native language in the increasingly russophobic post-Soviet Ukraine.
Putin participated in the traditionally military parade, showcasing all the types of military armaments in the national arsenal, congratulated the WWII veterans, previously the objects of scorn and utter disrespect by Ukrainian nationalist leaders that had taken a course on revisionism of the history of the WWII, commemorating odious figures condemned by the Nuremberg Tribunal and other authorities either as Nazi war criminals or accomplices to their murdering machines.
Speaking in Sevastopol about the reunion of the peninsula to its motherland, having righted the wrong done by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1954, when he unilaterally “gifted” the region and its mostly Russian-speaking residents to Ukraine, Putin said the reunion was possible because of the examples set by the WWII veterans.
“We look up to you, dear veterans. The fact that Crimea and Sevastopol “returned” back to their motherland became possible because of the high values set by you. These include unity, justice and oneness and the ability to act according to our conscience,” he added.
Speaking about the residents of Sevastopol, the president noted: The example of Sevastopol has shown to the whole world that no enemies will gain an upper hand, whenever and wherever Russians are fully ready with absolute determination to fight for their land, honor and freedom.
Speaking about the reunification and problems ahead, the president noted that the challenges ahead are huge, but they are all completely surmountable because when Russians are united in their course, they are much stronger.
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