“1418 Days of Shame for the Russian Army.” The Duration of Russia's War Against Ukraine Has Equaled That of the Great Patriotic War
Amidst the degradation of all spheres — from military to scientific — the Kremlin's gamble has turned into Russia's protracted fall into the abyss, writes Supreme Soviet deputy and journalist Siarhiej Navumčyk.
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People of my generation know this number not from history textbooks (it wasn't there, if I'm not mistaken), but from the first phrases of Brezhnev's "Malaya Zemlya" (Small Land). I can still quote from memory: "I didn't keep diaries during the war. But 1418 days and nights - are not forgotten."
Today, the duration of what the Kremlin calls a "special military operation" has equaled what is called the Great Patriotic War in Putin's and Lukashenka's textbooks.
1418 days of Russia's fall into the abyss and, frankly, the shame of the Russian army, of its, as the military regulations formulate, "commanders and superiors." And first and foremost — of the most important one, the Kremlin's superior.
Compare the "successes" of Putin's army with how much the Red Army advanced in 1941-45.
The idol of the current Kremlin leadership (and indeed, of most of the Russian people), Comrade Stalin, for such "successes" would have stripped the epaulets from front and army commanders, and would have turned them into "camp dust."
There will be no victory for Moscow. Degrading in all spheres — from military to scientific — the Russian imperial project is slowly but steadily approaching its finale.
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