Difficult question Donetsk friends
On the Day of Military Glory (February 2), we celebrate the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad. This is a great holiday for Russian people, and not only Russian ones. However, just today, having accidentally watched a documentary about the heroism of the defenders of Stalingrad, I suddenly caught myself on the terrible thought that in the news a few minutes earlier I had already seen the same ruins in the Donbass. Donetsk land is also no stranger to me, because the best years of my youth were spent there - in the Donetsk Higher Military-Political School.
I am from the latest Soviet issues. After school I served, but found my place in the civilian world. Never lost contact with classmates, exchanged visits often, noted the round dates of issues. With great pleasure I always came to Donetsk to invariably hospitable friends who were more dear to many relatives. Thank God, while everyone is alive, however, there is something that I cannot understand, and given the latest events, especially. No, we do not “send” each other, but the difference in positions does not allow to discuss the situation freely.
I want it to be clear: now I’m not talking about those friends who are against this medieval obscurantism, otherwise I’ll have the opinion that everyone is like that.
It all started on 3 May, when the answer came to my text about the tragedy in Odessa: "Yes, Putin has crossed all the borders." For the next hours of 3 I was in a state of groggy. Then I was still naive, I did not understand that the transformation had already begun. Rather, the fact that the last couple of decades had been driven into the heads of even fairly independent-minded people broke out into hell of nonsense.
Next - everything according to plan, the whole trump “iconostasis”: militias - gopniks and homeless people, Russian troops, Tanks T-90, Chechnya, "squeezed the car", etc. To whom it is interesting, open any "Ukrainian truth". You will not find any differences.
So, this is still going on, when “friendly” ammunition is already flying on their heads. Already in the city center - at the headquarters of the park Shcherbakov, Leninsky district. Native Bosse, unhappy people in the trolleybus and on Kuprin Street, who happened to be nearby. By the way, the school is located on the street. Kuprina, meters in 400 from this place. Shop next to the arch, where we bought sausage, vodka and salad "Autumn" in glass bottles. What kind of life was it when it ended?
I remember the disputes with classmates - residents of the Soviet then Ukraine, who argued that their republic was feeding the entire Union. The arguments were not hot, we, who are from the RSFSR, didn’t mind too much, as the breadbasket, yes. However, the disputes were purely theoretical, as they couldn’t climb into the head of the cadet, which will happen literally in a couple of years. And not only cadet. Somehow about the breadbasket did not work, it turned out that the breadbasket was still at a different address. Like so much more.
This is much more - the memory of the ancestors who fought in the Second World War, Soviet songs and films that are now banned in nenka, common sense, rejection of Nazism, gay propaganda and the removal of children from their families, culture, the Olympiad and many other things that form the basis healthy society. Just do not be ironic about the thesis of a healthy Russian society, everything is known in comparison. However, this is a topic for another conversation.
Why am I doing this? The position of my three Donetsk friends seems to me a betrayal. The betrayal of their grandfathers, who fought against Bandera and the Nazis, for their Donetsk and Soviet lands. Now the APU through 70 years repeats the "exploits" of the Wehrmacht, and this is justified by them! Truly, through the looking glass! So we are enemies now? And as a friend, I do not have the right to such tough words? Probably not, but how then to be?
PS A couple of weeks ago, my son found through the Internet a submission to the order of one sergeant artilleryman, commander of a gun crew, dated February 1943 (Stalingrad). Sergeant Smirnov (real name) received his honored Order "For Military Merit" only in 1985 year. It was my son's great-grandfather.
I am from the latest Soviet issues. After school I served, but found my place in the civilian world. Never lost contact with classmates, exchanged visits often, noted the round dates of issues. With great pleasure I always came to Donetsk to invariably hospitable friends who were more dear to many relatives. Thank God, while everyone is alive, however, there is something that I cannot understand, and given the latest events, especially. No, we do not “send” each other, but the difference in positions does not allow to discuss the situation freely.
I want it to be clear: now I’m not talking about those friends who are against this medieval obscurantism, otherwise I’ll have the opinion that everyone is like that.
It all started on 3 May, when the answer came to my text about the tragedy in Odessa: "Yes, Putin has crossed all the borders." For the next hours of 3 I was in a state of groggy. Then I was still naive, I did not understand that the transformation had already begun. Rather, the fact that the last couple of decades had been driven into the heads of even fairly independent-minded people broke out into hell of nonsense.
Next - everything according to plan, the whole trump “iconostasis”: militias - gopniks and homeless people, Russian troops, Tanks T-90, Chechnya, "squeezed the car", etc. To whom it is interesting, open any "Ukrainian truth". You will not find any differences.
So, this is still going on, when “friendly” ammunition is already flying on their heads. Already in the city center - at the headquarters of the park Shcherbakov, Leninsky district. Native Bosse, unhappy people in the trolleybus and on Kuprin Street, who happened to be nearby. By the way, the school is located on the street. Kuprina, meters in 400 from this place. Shop next to the arch, where we bought sausage, vodka and salad "Autumn" in glass bottles. What kind of life was it when it ended?
I remember the disputes with classmates - residents of the Soviet then Ukraine, who argued that their republic was feeding the entire Union. The arguments were not hot, we, who are from the RSFSR, didn’t mind too much, as the breadbasket, yes. However, the disputes were purely theoretical, as they couldn’t climb into the head of the cadet, which will happen literally in a couple of years. And not only cadet. Somehow about the breadbasket did not work, it turned out that the breadbasket was still at a different address. Like so much more.
This is much more - the memory of the ancestors who fought in the Second World War, Soviet songs and films that are now banned in nenka, common sense, rejection of Nazism, gay propaganda and the removal of children from their families, culture, the Olympiad and many other things that form the basis healthy society. Just do not be ironic about the thesis of a healthy Russian society, everything is known in comparison. However, this is a topic for another conversation.
Why am I doing this? The position of my three Donetsk friends seems to me a betrayal. The betrayal of their grandfathers, who fought against Bandera and the Nazis, for their Donetsk and Soviet lands. Now the APU through 70 years repeats the "exploits" of the Wehrmacht, and this is justified by them! Truly, through the looking glass! So we are enemies now? And as a friend, I do not have the right to such tough words? Probably not, but how then to be?
PS A couple of weeks ago, my son found through the Internet a submission to the order of one sergeant artilleryman, commander of a gun crew, dated February 1943 (Stalingrad). Sergeant Smirnov (real name) received his honored Order "For Military Merit" only in 1985 year. It was my son's great-grandfather.
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