On stage they’ve blended from troopers singing rap to excited youngsters who had been ‘rescued’ from Mariupol Nobody might purchase tickets, the stands had been stuffed with officers and college students who had been paid or pressured to go Has participated in a macro live performance to commemorate a 12 months of the battle in Ukraine and the Day of “Defender of the Fatherland”
Vladimir Putin didn’t have sufficient along with his speech of greater than two hours final Tuesday and now he needed to take a mass bathtub in Moscow, for his personal glory. The chosen setting, the Luzhniki stadium within the Russian capital, the place the ultimate of the 2018 World Cup in Russia was held. It has not given a sew with out a thread. In two days, one 12 months has handed for the reason that invasion of Ukraine, and Russia celebrates its ‘Defender of the Fatherland Day’.
So the very best alternative to cheer on yours. Vladimir Putin in black, heat and with a microphone in hand, like a rock star addressing his folks. “We are pleased with those that are preventing in Ukraine to defend the homeland,” he mentioned amid a clamor of flags and shouts of “Russia, Russia.”
Eleven levels beneath zero and the sphere to burst. It is alleged that no tickets have been bought and that the invites have been private. 81,000 spectators and Moscow that has labored laborious to indicate the environment of the stadium full of individuals. “When we’re united, we have now no equal. For the unity of the Russian folks! Hooray!” a fiery Putin shouted contained in the stadium.
The rapper soldier and the kids of Mariupol
The phrase “hurray” has not fallen from the mouth of the Russian president. A ‘Hurrah!, for the wounded troopers, that a few of them have handed by way of the scene after an emotional video. Hurrah! additionally for the nurses and medical personnel who heal these fortunate sufficient to return from the battlefield. And as much as three cheers for the troopers who’re on the Ukrainian entrance. “They are preventing heroically, bravely, bravely. We are pleased with them. Three cheers to them!”
One of them was fortunate sufficient to be referred to as to Moscow to sing a rap with the Russian Army choir, which punctuated every stanza with the extraordinarily well-known track ‘Katiusha’. Some have seen a sure resemblance between the rap and the music of the Russian group ‘Kasta’, certainly one of whose members has launched songs in opposition to the battle in Ukraine.
On Defender of the Fatherland Day, a hero and plenty of youngsters couldn’t be lacking. The iconography guidelines. So, after an emotional video, a burly older soldier, nicknamed ‘Angel’, appeared on stage. The soldier has posed surrounded by youngsters, a few of the 367 little ones, which in response to the organizers he rescued from Mariupol throughout the battle for the town.
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The presenters had been additionally chosen in response to the script. The grasp of ceremonies was the well-known actor Vladimir Mashkov. The interpreter is well-known in Russia and has performed roles (nearly at all times as a villain) in Western movies resembling ‘Behind enemy strains’.
Next to him, Yulia Baranovskaya, the ex-wife of the Arsenal participant, Andrei Arshavin. Sheathed in a hanging crimson coat (the predominant colours among the many attendees had been blue, white and crimson, these of the Russian flag) she has defined that the destruction by Russia of the town of Mariupol has really been the fault of Ukraine.
Putin thanked the Russians, everybody besides the “traitors”, for his or her assist for the battle, together with the kids “who write to the troopers” and as an example this, a video has been broadcast with pictures of kids writing letters and of fogeys within the entrance, studying them.
“We should defend essentially the most sacred factor we have now: the household and the homeland,” Putin harangued from the stage. “Homeland” and “household” have been the phrases most used throughout the act, with the permission of “hurrah”.