The human rights activist does not understand (or pretends not to understand) that a military parade does stimulate the development of the armed forces, while ignoring the army does not raise its prestige and does not help to solve any problems.
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However, this logic and these questions are typical of those who were not so long ago called “demschiza” (democratic schizophrenics). Valeria Novodvorskaya gave an interview to Gazeta on the eve of Victory Day in 2007: “I never celebrate May 9 and I do not recommend anybody to do it…if forward-looking mankind wants to celebrate something, it does it meekly and without fuss. Such grandiose parades like in Russia are organized by losers who lost the rest and who need a myth that they are worth something.”
It is quite clear that it is not parades, but the holiday itself that invokes acute idiosyncrasy in them. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Victory in WWII, Alexander Minkin wrote in Moskovski Komsomolets: “Maybe, it would have been better if Nazi Germany had conquered the USSR in 1945, or even in 1941. In this case we would not have lost 22 or 30 million people. I don’t count Stalin’s millions of victims”.
A host of Echo of Moscow radio station, Buntman, described May 9 as “a corporate party of the Russian Federation Closed Joint-Stock Company.” “Throughout several years this holiday reminds of a corporate party,” he said about Victory Day. “This time military vehicles are involved to encourage the corporate spirit. These military vehicles rattle along Moscow streets, the traffic is blocked, and the fate of asphalt roads is quite obscure.”
Do you think that Buntman is greatly concerned with the fate of Moscow asphalt roads? He is more likely to be concerned with Victory Day. So is Ponomaryov, Roginsky, Novodvorskaya, Minkin and others, for “forward-looking mankind” “never celebrates May 9”. A parade with military vehicles on Red Square damages the Army and roads. On the whole, a Victory parade is for “losers”. “Demschiza” has other values.
“We cannot ban a gay parade,” Valeria Novodvorskaya stated. A hemp march and a gay parade should be allowed, Lev Ponomaryov believes. “People of democratic views and high civic engagement will always summon the courage to back up dissidents, including proponents of legalized cannabis and gay parades”.
“Gay parades are a way of showing your individuality, and for example, in Berlin there is no such segregation,” Butman said. “I look at Berlin and Paris. The mayor of Paris is gay, but nobody has problems with it.”
Dmitry Lyskov
Pravda.ru
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Translated by Julia Bulygina
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