They did not kill about 100000 people in a second as US did in 1945 with a nuclear bomb.
They did not pulverize a city killing all the citizens including their own POWs as English did with Dresden.
Enough said? In 1944 Stalin ordered to march through Moscow about 45000 German POWs, among them people from SS, Luftwaffe and panzer. Moscovites filled the streets, mostly women and watched in silence. Not a single stone was thrown- Russian people were dignified. We had great ancestors and predecessors. They had enough self-esteem for all of us and for the generations yet to come.
Julia Drunina killed herself in 1990s in a shame that Soviet Union was disintegrating. She loved maybe the greatest epiphany of War, the words of Boris Slutsky about the "marble of lieutenants, the wooden monument" forever immortalizing the three generations of the Russian boys who went to war and died as virgins. They commanded regiments before they had sex. They stopped the tank armies before they were kissed by a girl. In 1943 my grandfather, then a military engineer built the Mozdoc line of entrenchment, the Russian Verdun and watched the 18years' old there stopping the elite German mountain division Edelweiss from rushing to the Baku oil. Julia Drunina, the "sacred sister" remained a soldier and a hero to the end; when her beloved country fell into misery and shame she pulled out a gun and ended her life on her own terms. Celebrate that in your classrooms, the emancipated ladies of empowerment!
On this Mother's Day and on this day of Great Victory I address all the ladies of the US- please, get alive. Reading Anne Frank's diary and bringing your girls to work do not mean you are the best, the freest, the most progressive and compassionate women in the world. Humility, care, cautiousness, kindness, self-doubt and constant ability to learn are the qualities to develop. Please, do not encourage women to kill, do not encourage them to be "strong". You will get Sarah Palin if you do that. Please, support women like Cindy Sheehan. Please, show your girls that they have the obligation to stop the madness of war. Please, show them that it would not be easy. Please, cultivate love, real love, the love of the equals, for the equals, by the equals. Please, be fair. Please, be careful. It is a very tough world out there. But it is a living, breathing world and it is like that due to the unbelievable feat of all the "sacred sisters." Honor them, never forget them, please. On this Mother's Day, please say your Grace in memoriam and eternal gratitude to the people of Russia and Russian women who in those fateful years saved the Humanity and thus became the ancestors of all of us, their grateful children.
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