Abbas Attar's photographs of Dhaka on December 16, 1971: when the Pakistani Armed Forces finally surrendered to Mukti Bahini, ending the nine-month Liberation War and 1971 Bangladesh genocide and marking the official secession of East Pakistan to become the new state of Bangladesh. Bangladesh commemorates this day as Victory Day (বিজয় দিবস) to honour the martyrs who laid their lives down in the war.
77 years ago, at 2:10 Moscow time, Yuri Levitan informed the Soviet people about the unconditional surrender of the German troops and the victorious end of the Great Patriotic War.
You can’t have a Victory Day parade in Moscow these days. It might just remind Russians that Putin is far from victory on Day 422 of his three-day “special operation” in Ukraine.
Not only does Russia look bad for its poor overall military performance in Ukraine, but it also just bombed one of its own cities, Belgorod, which was never part of Ukraine.
Russia’s air force accidentally bombs own city of Belgorod
Because of tight media censorship, tens of millions of Russians don’t understand what an international embarrassment Putin and his armed forces really are.
Russia is becoming the military equivalent of the Zune, the Edsel, and New Coke.
The way W*stern news outlets are categorizing Victory Day celebrations outside Russia as “pro-Russian propaganda” is some sick shit. We’re really living through full-scale Nazi apologism and historical revisionism because of the United States’ precious fucking proxy war. I’d say these fuckers should be thankful the Soviet Union saved them from Nazism but I get the feeling more and more they wouldn’t mind that much if Nazi Germany was still around. Maybe even prefer it.