{"id":8903,"date":"2023-05-09T13:53:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=8903"},"modified":"2023-05-09T14:05:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T12:05:02","slug":"have-a-good-victory-day-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/have-a-good-victory-day-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a good Victory Day Russia!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It looks different on British TV, but that’s what you pay your licence for<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

9 May 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the first time in four years that I am unable to attend the 9th<\/sup> May Victory Day celebrations in Russia, as I am \u2018over here\u2019 at the moment as distinct from \u2018over there\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olga sent me an email from Kaliningrad this morning, saying: \u201cIt is a lovely morning today and the sun is shining for us to put the flowers to the monument of the fallen in the Second World War. Praying for peace and love in the world.\ud83e\udd70\u2764\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my reply, I asked her to say hello from me to our mutual friends and let them know that although I am over here, I am thinking of them over there and am certain that Russia will prevail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a good Victory Day Russia!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As I may have mentioned once or a hundred times before, I do not watch telly, but in the past few weeks I have had access to a television set. My first reaction to this novel but invasive experience was, as I had been forewarned, every other commentator, reporter, news anchor, every TV programme, no matter what it is, and every second advert features a person of colour. Said my brother, \u201cIs this what they mean by a colour TV?” I mused on this question before replying judiciously, \u201cWhen I was young, there was only black and white. We couldn’t afford a colour TV.\u201d Can we<\/em> afford one now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one sense, however, it, TV and life, is more black and white than it ever was. Take, for example, the Eurovision Song Contest, that once flagship of European propriety and conservatism. The last time I watched this programme, someone was jumping up and down to the innocent refrains of \u2018Puppet on a String\u2019, now, it would seem, we in the West are all puppets umbilically attached to somebody else’s lifeline, fed on televised pap poisoned with propaganda. Eurovictim is no exception. The song and prance programme has gone the same way as everything else in the West ~ a festering fest of genderism and mass consumption politics for those who like to be told what to think rather than think for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other leitmotif of British TV, apart from the black and white issue, is, of course, Ukraine. Am I mistaken or has the \u2018o\u2019 in Eur\u2019o\u2019vision assumed the shape of a heart with an infill of colours taken from the Ukrainian flag? What is apparent is that Mr Zelensky gets an awful lot of British TV air space, either through open or covert reference, or in the unastounding character of himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf it \u2018aint c\u2026s!\u201d someone cries, glaring at the pub TV, \u201cIt\u2019s that f…..g w\u2026.r!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Mr Zelensky appears on our British TV sets, he does so wearing his ubiquitous T-shirt. There is much talk of the need to defend universal democracy couched in such a way that it sounds like an appeal for more money and more weapons. In the meantime, Mr Z, perhaps you would be so kind as to tell us, we the British people, to which charity we can turn to pay our gas and electric bills?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And on that note, I\u2019d better switch off the computer, as I can see the metre whirring round like a member of the transvestite left at a real-fur coronation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My message to the Russian people on 9th<\/sup> May 2023 is simply this: stay firm, trust in your convictions and keep the faith. The importance of your heritage, past and history is non-negotiable. When it\u2019s gone, it’s gone. And don’t we English know it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a good 9th May!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LINKS<\/em><\/strong>
Victory Day 2022 Brings Record Turnout<\/strong><\/a>
9th May Kaliningrad Victory Day 2021<\/a><\/strong>
9th May Victory Day Kaliningrad 2002 & 2020<\/a><\/strong>
Immortal Regiment Alexei Dolgikh<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Victory<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2023 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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