While In Russia, Vladimir Putin tried to show his strength with a lackluster Victory Day parade about fascism, in Cuba their allies Miguel Díaz-Canel and Raúl Castro did the same to support those responsible for the war in Ukraine with a political act and a military ceremony. The Cuban regime and its senior officials never miss an opportunity to show support for Moscow.
As reported by the Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR). On twitter, The act took place in the mausoleum of the Soviet internationalist soldier in Havana, led by Díaz-Canel and Castro.
“Six gifts of flowers were laid in front of the eternal flame paying homage to the deceased on behalf of the Cuban State Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), the Russian Federation, the Republics of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, and the “People of Cuba.” the official newspaper .
Also present at the event were members of the Politburo: Roberto Morales Ojeda, Organizing Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC); Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera, Minister of the FAR; Division General Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, Interior Minister and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
Other key leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and Ministry of Interior, party and government leaders, ambassadors and a representative of Cuba’s accredited military diplomatic corps were also present.
That said Viktor Koronelli, Russian Ambassador to Cuba “Despite such great devastation” that left behind “the bloodiest war in human history”, the Red Army was able to defeat the German military machine and thus free Europe from the fascist plague.
As well as the Kremlin’s discourse on the war unleashed against Ukraine in March last year, Koronelli took the opportunity to repeat the accusations of “neo-Nazism”. against this country.
“Unfortunately, not everyone learned the lessons of this war, and Today neo-Nazism is rearing its head again in different countries of the world. We see monuments dedicated to the soldiers of the epic destroyed and symbols of the great victory banned; for this reason We greatly appreciate the contribution of the Republic of Cuba in the fight against the glorification of fascism“, called.
The Cuban side did not lack for attacks on the United States. Morales Ojeda said that the events they commemorate and “the lessons they teach us have to do with the nature, aims and methods of imperialism and with the harsh reality that its claims to hegemony did not disappear in 1945, but rather nurtured and hatched.” in a new empire, this time closer and more hostile: the Yankee Empire.
“The victory over fascism saved the lives of millions of people, saved the millenary legacy of human culture and the sense of human dignity, and was a triumph of progressive humanity,” he added.
After the troops retreated, Castro and Díaz-Canel, along with the other members of the leadership, laid red roses in front of the sculpture commemorating Army General Issá Aleksándrovich Plíyev, who was twice considered a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II. World War II, which served as Chief of the group of Soviet troops in Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis.
Putin promises victory and assumes that it is the West that has declared war on Russia
To close one The parade this year was shorter and smaller than usual – only about 8,000 soldiers marched in Red Square this year, the lowest number since 2008 – Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that a “real war” had been unleashed against Russia, in which he guaranteed victory, and called the ideology of supremacy, which the Kremlin said is held by Western leaders, “criminal”, EFE reported .
“A real war is once again unleashed against our homeland. “But we resist international terrorism and we will also defend the people of Donbass and guarantee our security,” Putin said.
Putin added that Russia ‘has unfriendly and hostile peoples neither in the West nor in the East’ and longs like the absolute majority of countries in the world for “a peaceful, free and stable future”.
At the same time, he accused the West of forgetting what happened when Hitler’s Germany strove for world domination by unleashing war in 1939.
The Russian head of state accused the western powers of “enforcing their will, their rights and their rules”. and indeed forge a system of plunder, violence and oppression” in which “the traditional values that make man human” are also being destroyed.
“We hold any supremacist ideology to be inherently abominable, criminal and deadly. Instead, globalist elites continue to defend their exclusivity, turn people against each other and divide societies, provoking bloody conflicts and coups, sowing hatred, Russophobia and aggressive nationalism.” ” he said.
Despite the hostilities Putin congratulated the Ukrainian people on Victory Day.
The military parade passed without victories on the Ukrainian battlefield, where Wagner’s mercenaries failed to keep their promise to take Bakhmut’s fortress in Donbass.
However, the Russian offensive continued, and on the same morning as the parade in Moscow, aviation launched “about fifteen” cruise missiles against Kiev, which were intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses.