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80 YEARS AFTER
Dear Editor,
How I wish I could have been on Moscow this week to celebrate with the Russian people the 80th anniversary of the victory over Hitlerite fascism.
That historic event is symbolized by the lone soldier planting the flag of the USSR a top the ruins of the German Reichstag. It was a moment in history that is etched in the memory of all peace loving and democratic forces since that time and up to these modern times. Hitler’s long series of aggression and occupation of many territories and nation states and broken promises made it hard to see what sort of peace could be made to reassure the countries now freed that never again would Europe be another theatre of war moreso, a third world war.
The memory of the slaughter of millions was too vivid; not to mention the millions who were sent to concentration camps as slave labour only to be starved and eventually burnt in furnaces as mere victims of nazi tyranny. This Is just part of the appalling story we of this generation now read about. It is estimated that approximately 6-7 million Jews died either in gas chambers or crematoria in specially built extermination camps
It must have been hard for those who lived at the end of the war to measure the colossal extent of what had occurred but in the end, one thing was clear to all; the allied armies had overthrow Hitler’s evil empire. A chapter of European and world history came to an end as the demographics which had made Europe for centuries a Centre of human civilization was shattered.
Never to be forgotten however is the heroic and vanguard role played by the Soviet Ted Army about whom many stories, films and poems have been written. May 7,1945 was a red letter day, it marked the day of Germany’s surrender with May 8 being marked as VE Day -the end of the war in Europe. Outside the then USSR, approximately 14, million European were dead; of the USSR over 20 million died with about 13 million of them soldiers or prisoners.
In routing German fascism, beyond the shadow of doubt it was the USSR that proved to be the real victors. Today, while there is no RED ARMY as such, the Russian army has lived up to the legacy of those who fought and gave their lives for the motherland during the Second World War. On the battle front in Ukraine the Russian, army true to form, continues to advance inexorably towards an inevitability just as their predecessors did in the Great Patriotic War. On this occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the defeat of Hitlerite fascism and the victory of the Soviet Red Army we salute their heroism and bow our heads in homage to the great and unforgettable sacrifices they made in bringing to an end Hitlerite fascism in the throes of a hard won victory on May 7, 1945.
Regards
Clement J. Rohee
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