These young heroes exemplify the absolute best qualities youth anywhere could possess.
In Novoborovitsyi, Victory Day 2019 centered around the story of one such 14 year old named Petr Skreptsov who ran messages from the local partisans to the Soviet army in that time frame. He was eventually caught. He and his family were tortured and stabbed with bayonets by the nationalists.
The video tries to capture the essential commemoration of all these events.
While our journalism effort transitions into video, I hope you'll overlook some of the technical flaws.
How could a serious war effort be mounted against the Nazis and Bandera's OUN UPA without technical support? Or how about without any of the material or weaponry you would expect in a war zone against an overwhelmingly superior force that was completely armed?
Once you grasp that story, it's only a small step to understanding how Donbass did it again in 2014 against a standing army. The Ukrainian army may have been inadequate but the logistics chain was in place.
Lugansk People's Republic's Victory Day is a commemoration of the drive and spirit that made the Donbass region famous from the days of the Tsars through to 2019.
While this isn't a war of child partisans, it is the children, mothers with babes, and the elderly that suffer the most.
Poroshenko, while claiming to be the leader of the country LDNR citizens reside in, made it clear that the children could sit in root cellars under the threat of artillery instead of going to school. Zelenskiy is embracing the same philosophy.
The reason is both are in debt to the OUN for their respective position as presidents. Under Zelenskiy, no change is possible.
The Victory Day celebration is supposed to remind people about the dangers of nationalism and fascism. Worldwide it is celebrated by every country that was allied in WWII. The problem in the West is remembering the importance of those sacrifices lost meaning.
In Donbass, we are living daily watching local people making those sacrifices again.
Victory Day 2019 in Donbass commemorates a commitment to a real future which means leaving Ukraine behind. LNR's direction is clear. It's Russia. Victory! ПРРРРРdegrees!
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