In recent years, on May 9, when Victory Day over fascism is celebrated, in many countries, the action "Immortal Regiment" has been gaining popularity. On this day, the protesters march through the city streets with photos of their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers, relatives — army and navy veterans, partisans, underground fighters, Resistance fighters who fought against fascism, many of whom gave their lives for the Victory. The memory of the fighters against fascism is sacred, and descendants strive to preserve this memory.
The Immortal Regiment movement becomes international and unites people in a single feeling of gratitude to the winners of fascism almost all over the world. In addition, the movement "Immortal regiment" is directed against the emergence of new wars and the revival of neo-fascism in the future. The constant attributes of the processions of the "Immortal Regiment" are the symbols of Victory - the Red Banner and the Guards Ribbons.
As is well known, veterans of the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union enjoyed special honor and respect. Books were written about them, movies were created, newspapers were published on the eve of Victory Day, which contained stories and memories of those who broke the back of Nazi fascism with their military labor and saved the world from the brown plague.
Unfortunately, during the Gorbachev “perestroika”, when there was an intensive campaign of anti-Stalin hysteria and denigration of the Soviet past, then continued after the counter-revolutionary coup, especially under Yeltsin, many publications appeared that did not go wrong, and led the troops wrongly, could not but affect the attitude of the bourgeois government to the participants of the last war. However, the feat of the Soviet soldier will never be silenced, so the traditional processions of veterans on May 9, which were held in Soviet times, continued after the coup. But the time inexorably takes its toll: many veterans have already died, and the survivors are physically unable to participate in the processions.
And then patriots-journalists of the Siberian city of Tomsk decided to restore justice: the heroes who defended the freedom of the country should be with us, the post-war generation, even in the form of photographs, and thus we will keep indefinite memory of them. The initiators relied on the tradition that arose spontaneously in Soviet times, when people brought photographs of their relatives to the memorials of the fallen. May 9, 2012 was the date of birth of the movement in its modern form: then, at the call of project activists, a convoy of city residents passed through the streets of Tomsk. They carried posters with photo portraits of their relatives who fought in the Great Patriotic War. The action, dubbed the "Immortal Regiment", was attended by more than six thousand people who carried more than two thousand portraits of participants in the war.
The coverage in the regional and federal media led to the fact that the popularity of the idea proposed by the creators of the action grew sharply. After May 9, 2012, a community of coordinators from different cities and countries began to form around Tomsk. In December 2012, 15 cities of Russia expressed a desire to organize a share, by February 2013 the number of cities had increased to 30 in four countries (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Israel). On May 9, 2018, the action "Immortal Regiment" covered more than 80 states and territories of the world.
In 2014, the official symbol of the national "Immortal Regiment" was the logo - the crane that soars into the sky against the background of a five-pointed star. The image from the song “Cranes” was taken as the plot (the song of the composer Jan Fraenkel to the lyrics of Rasul Gamzatov translated into Russian by Naum Grebnev). The song is dedicated to soldiers who fell during the war. As the authors of the symbol say: “Thus, a composition of birds soaring against the star of a soldier’s grave has developed.” At the same time, the authors subject to the bourgeois ideology dominating in the state assert: “We wanted to create a sign distant from political and propaganda symbols and cliches”. In January 2014, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation registered the Interregional Historical and Patriotic Social Movement (MIPOD) "Immortal Regiment".
Also in 2014, the Council of the MIPS "Immortal Regiment" excluded for violation of the Charter from among the coordinators of the municipal deputy of the Moscow region Khoroshevo-Mnevniki from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation N. Zemtsov, who then created a twin organization RPOD "Immortal Regiment - Moscow". Its symbol was the red star with a crane inside (or George, the victorious),
Of course, the bourgeois government of Russia, seeing that the people's movement "Immortal Regiment" is gaining strength, decided to cling to it, moreover, to head it, declaring at the same time that this action should be out of politics. The "Immortal Regiment" was included "in the All-Russian program of celebrating in 2015 the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Thanks to this, in many cities, officials recognized the public coordinators of the MIIPOD “Immortal Regiment” and gave permission to march.
On 9 May 2015, the march of the "Immortal Regiment" in Moscow was headed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The People's Artist of the USSR Vasily Lanovoy, the head of the "Immortal Regiment - Moscow" Nikolay Zemtsov and the People's Artist of the RSFSR Irina Kupchenko walked alongside.
On May 9, 2017, on Victory Day, the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church in different cities of Russia took part in the action in memory of the Immortal Regiment.
Archpastors and priests marched with portraits of their relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic War, as well as portraits of other front-line clergymen. The process of blasphemous slandour to the sacred memory of the Victory of the Soviet people, as they say, had started.
What most outraged people in this action was the frank anti-Soviet sentiment. The mockery of Soviet history. As you know, Soviet soldiers fought for the Soviet homeland. In each military unit that fought against the Nazis, there were only red banners. The Red Victory Banner with a sickle, a hammer and a star on it was hoisted over the defeated Berlin. Therefore, this banner is invariably the main symbol of Victory.
And the red-blue-white tricolor is a symbol of the ROA - the so-called Russian liberation army, led by traitor Vlasov and fought on the side of the Nazis against the Red Army. Therefore, the abundance of red-blue-white banners on the streets of Russian cities on Victory Day is a blasphemous blasphemy and mockery of those whose portraits are carried by participants of marches on this day. As you know, the Soviet soldiers who fought against the Nazis often refused to capture Vlasovites with red-blue-white stripes on their sleeves, and shot them on the spot. So great was the hatred of the Red Army men towards the traitors to the Motherland. Therefore, numerous facts of the prohibition of Soviet symbols during the traditional march of the Immortal Regiment, as happened on May 9, 2018 in Perm, should be prosecuted, and officials responsible for such actions should be punished.
As for the Guards Ribbon, it is also a symbol of Victory, as it was used in the bordering of the Order of Glory pads of three degrees and the medal "For the Victory over Germany." However, it should be attached either with a red ribbon, or on the Guards tape to attach a badge that personifies the Red Banner, or the Red Star. The use of striped flags stylized as the St. George ribbon, the production of which is organized in Russia, is unacceptable, since such flags were absent in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. They look like a pirate flag, but not the St. George ribbon.
The main task of the AUCPB in preparation for the celebration of Victory Day is the work on the organization, first in the cities of Russia (since the situation in it has already matured) of the action called “The Stalin’s immortal regiment”. We should not put up with the fact that this mass popular movement has already been privatized by the bourgeois government of Russia and turned into Putin's Immortal Regiment. Yes, and about what kind of "immortal regiment" can one speak in general to the bourgeoisie of the powers that be, arranging marches in Red Square past the carefully draped boards, thus cowardly hidden by the current liberal power of the Mausoleum VI Lenin, from the podium which November 7, 1941. Soviet regiments went to the front and blessed them for feats, standing on the podium of the Mausoleum, our great leader I.V. Stalin. I consider it justified in the early stages of the organization of the "Stalin's Immortal Regiment" that the Bolshevik box participated in the processions organized by the authorities. But, apart from portraits of relatives who fought for the Soviet Motherland, our attributes should be in the Bolshevik box: in front of the banner is the "Stalin's Immortal Regiment" and the AUCPB standard, in the column are red Soviet banners, banners-slogans of the Great Patriotic War (for example, "Our cause is right, - victory will be ours ”, I. V.Stalin), portraits of I.V. Stalin and V.I. Lenin. The presence of Bolshevik newspapers and leaflets in the Stalin immortal regiment is mandatory.
It is necessary to think carefully about the logo of the Stalin immortal regiment, which is uniform for the entire territory of the Soviet Union. It should be simple and straightforward, but certainly advantageously different from the existing ones.
Our Bolshevik materials should pay attention to the fact that the current leaders of the post-Soviet republics during the celebration of Victory Day never mention the Supreme Commander Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, which is an act of the greatest injustice, since there are no victories without commanders. And to emphasize that the whole world should bow low to Stalin, because he saved human civilization from fascist enslavement.
V.B. Zelikov, secretary of the Central Committee of the AUCPB,
Minsk
