Victory day 2022

Question

Anna from Ukraine

Answer 1

I did not watch it all, SirFurry...but I loved seeing the monuments...was surprised when she mentioned that May 9 could be dangerous there...very poignant.

Comments

It isn’t dangerous normally but there was fear that  Russia would step up the conflict on the day,

In the event they didn’t

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She is a very effective blogger...impeccable English speaker with fine communication skills

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She speaks better English that some of the folk on UAtv English( available on you tube).

But I think she mentioned in her live vlog last Sunday she teaches  English at the local university.

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She is quite lovely, SFA...talented too. I would gladly send my kids to study English with her, or history, or etc.

Answer 2

"The Russians don't care anything about what happened between 1939 and 1941."

Of course they don't. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was in effect then.

Comments

Well, I learned something again, when I looked up Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

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Even France and UK had agreement in Munich with Hitler in 1938. They alllowed Germany to annexe Sudet area in Czehoslovakia.

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Yes, France and Britain agreed to Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland. They did not agree in Munich to Hitler's later takeover of the rest of Czechoslovakia...but they just stood by and did nothing.

In the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the Soviets were active participants in the invasion and partition of Poland. They annexed the eastern part of Poland, territory that Poland never got back after WW2, that territory remaining part of Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine to this day. Poland did get German territory (parts of East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia to the west as "compensation."

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Diplomacy can be brutal.

Answer 3

Serbia celebrates also that day. Some German allies (Croatian ustashas and Serbian Hitler's fans) in Yugoslavia fought until May 15th.