parade to bolster national pride has never been lost on the kremlin s leaders. president putin s whose victory day parades for years heralded the resurging as a military power. the speculation this year s parade will form the backdrop for a major announcement on ukraine. victory day still marks russia s past, what the kremlin really wants is to celebrate that elusive victory in the present. don, the kremlin says this victory day parade will be somewhat smaller than in previous years. there won t be foreign dig tartar dig tarries invited. that said, there will be 11,000 russian troops on parade through the center of the russian capital, 131 weapon systems on
russia, by putin s regime, to kind of normalize and prime the russian public for what is happening right now. it starts with just this the stalled ship for world war ii, patriotism, and bravery in russia. that is something that has been nurtured. there have been some victory day parades, one is coming up on may 9th in russia, that has spawned the collective memory of what it was that the soviet people did during world war ii to fight back nazis. don t forget, 27 million soviet union residents, or people, were estimated to have died during that conflict. my grandparents took part in it. every russian has some relative, family member that they can relate to there. it is a real manipulation of this kind of collective memory to use that and then start building this narrative of nazism within the ukrainian government. so it is just these kind of slow drops
political spectrum, you are aware that there is news from somewhere else on the political spectrum. i am assuming that that is similar in russia. so how are russian people being sold on the idea that there was an independent press that just up and vanished? i think everything that you are seeing here has been part of a years-long effort. within russia, by putin s regime, to kind of normalize and prime the russian public for what is happening right now. it starts with just this the stalled ship for world war ii, patriotism, and bravery in russia. that is something that has been nurtured. there have been some victory day parades, one is coming up on may 9th in russia, that has spawned the collective memory of what it was that the soviet people did during world war ii to fight back nazis. don t forget, 27 million soviet union residents, or people, were estimated to have died during that conflict. my grandparents took part in