Restrictions on internet access from mobile phone, roads closed to traffic, tanks in the city center. Are the signs that accompany the preparation of the traditional military parade for Moscow for The day of victory, which will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism on 9 May by the Red Army. Although it has been involved for over three years in a war with an uncertain outcome in Ukraine, Russia will celebrate triumphantly: On the Red Square, together with President Vladimir Putin, several international leaders are expected to support a new alternative multipolar order to the western driving force. On 9 May under Putin it became the most important secular party of the year and in which Russia shows its military power and its geopolitical influence. About twenty leaders from four continents have confirmed their presence in the Red Square, where the most anticipated guest will be the Chinese president Xi Jinping. The twenty years that separate the 60 and 80 anniversary of the victory demonstrate the change in the Diplomacy of the Kremlin since 2005, when Putin presented the parade together with the President of the United States George W. Bush. The annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the Vast Scala of Ukraine in 2022 changed alliances and balances, internally accentuating the cult of military victories.
According to Russian propaganda, Ukrainian soldiers are like the Nazis and the military operation Specialè is as noble as the great patriotic war that allowed the red army to arrive in Berlin. Not only that: those who support Ukrainian resistance to attack are to be considered “pro-Nazi”. The new posture of Washington, with the president Donald Trump most inclined to dialogue with Moscow, has moved the narration of the Kremlin to the enemies to be fought: from the collective West led by the USA to Europe that persists not to abandon Kiev and which is why it is described as the land of the Eurofascismò. «We will be happy to see here all those who wish to celebrate this great date with us. This is particularly important now that Nazism has again rooted in Europe, “said the Cremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov. In addition to XI, the leaders of the countries that Russia defines as “friends” are expected in the red square: the Latin American presence will be significant with the presidents of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, Brazil, Inacio Lula da Silva, and of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel. There will then be Vietnamita to Lam and the Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas, in addition to the omnipresent ally Belarusian Aleksandr Lukashenko.
Only Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fico, and the Serbian-Bosnian leader Milorad Dodik are expected from Europe.. The Serbian president, Aleksandar Vucic, had confirmed his presence, but on the weekend he had an illness and is currently hospitalized in Belgrade. “In Europe we do not see a unanimous will to immediately eradicate” Nazism, said Peskov. Even the Indian premier, Narendra Modi, had to be present but canceled the visit to the background of the security crisis with Pakistan. Moscow sees in the war in Ukraine the first step towards the affirmation of new spheres of influence, an aspiration encouraged by the USA of Trump and their antagonism towards Europe.