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Victory Banner over the Reichstag, May 2, 1945 |
Today in Russia marks the victory over fascism in Europe. This is not propaganda or revisionist history. This is not some woke sound bite that can be twisted and chewed up, spat out and shat in a gutter for the uninformed to admire.
On May 8, 1945, peasant born Chief of Staff and four time hero of the Soviet Union, General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, accepted the unconditional surrender of the German General Staff in Berlin, Germany, where he became supreme military commander and military governor. He ordered his subordinates to, "hate Nazism but respect the German people," and insisted on supplying urgently needed foodstuffs to the defeated nation. Any reports of mistreatment of the German people were severely dealt with.
He admired, respected, and worked with American general, Dwight David Eisenhower, whose name is the only non-Russian on a plaque in the Kremlin commemorating the victory over Nazism in the Great Patriotic War.
Would that the cooperation and respect continue, but the mire of politics commandeers every victory and every defeat for itself.
“We saved Europe from fascism… and they never forgave us for it,” General G. Zhukov.
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Eisenhower Dwight David /USA/ - Kremlin plaque, fifth name from the bottom. |
If all you can do is to shit on history, at least you are putting your best face forward.
