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emama @[email protected] · 2026-05-09 · 12:24 UTC

9 maggio 1945: giorno della Vittoria, dimenticato dall’Occidente
9.05.2017
Intervista di Tatiana Santi ad Alessandro Barbero
Il 9 maggio è il Giorno della Vittoria dell’Unione Sovietica sul nazismo, la festa per eccellenza più sentita dai russi, quando tutti i pensieri sono rivolti ai caduti, all’immenso impegno dei civili e dei militari sovietici nella Seconda Guerra mondiale. Una data però dimenticata dall’Occidente, perché?
La vittoria sul nazismo è un avvenimento che riguarda tutti senza eccezione, ma perché il 9 maggio non viene né celebrato né ricordato in Europa?

— Professor Barbero, perché secondo lei il cinema e la narrazione mediatica occidentale dominante fanno apparire spesso e volentieri gli americani come i veri e soli liberatori? Un esempio su tutti è il film "La vita è bella" di Benigni dove a liberare Aushwitz sono gli americani.

— È un caso abbastanza vergognoso di come la storia sia stata comunicata e stravolta da un punto di vista ideologico e politico. Gli studiosi e gli specialisti lo sanno benissimo che la Seconda Guerra mondiale in Europa è stata vinta innanzitutto dall'Unione Sovietica e che il peso di questa vittoria è molto superiore rispetto a quella americana. Questo lo sanno gli specialisti, al popolo si racconta una storia diversa.
Ciò avviene secondo me perché tutti noi siamo cresciuti in un mondo diviso. In Occidente l'Unione Sovietica è diventata un nemico e ricordarsi che eravamo stati alleati era difficile.

— Perché?

— Scomponiamo la vicenda. Prima viene il mito americano. Noi in Occidente siamo effettivamente stati liberati dagli americani, che sono stati accolti con immenso entusiasmo. Fa parte proprio dei nostri presupposti immaginare la liberazione da parte degli americani, noi inoltre viviamo in un mondo dominato dai media americani, dalla memorialistica e dal cinema americani. Ricordiamo i film come "Il giorno più lungo" o il più recente "Salvate il soldato Rian". Lo sbarco in Normandia fa parte dell'immaginario collettivo e rappresenta la vittoria del bene contro il male. Invece la battaglia di Stalingrado è un'altra cosa.

— Cioè?

— Innanzitutto si svolge in un mondo lontano e poco conosciuto. Inoltre da una parte c'è il male, i tedeschi, ma dall'altra c'è pure il male: l'Unione sovietica di Stalin. Nella percezione occidentale quindi tuttora è molto difficile vedere quello scontro come un episodio dove i buoni vincono contro i cattivi. Abbiamo visto film di guerra americani da sempre, nessuno da noi vede film da guerra sovietici. La letteratura russa e sovietica è una letteratura grandiosa, ma da noi non la conosce nessuno a parte pochi autori.

Ci troviamo totalmente nella bolla di origine americana e della storia vediamo solo dei pezzi, tanto che Benigni, girando il suo film, ha semplicemente pensato: se la liberazione si manifesta con delle truppe sovietiche la gente non capirà! La gente è abituata a vedere le truppe sovietiche con una certa diffidenza.

— Qual è l'importanza del 9 maggio però anche per la stessa Europa?

— Celebrare la sconfitta contro il nazismo in tutto il mondo dovrebbe voler dire celebrare la vittoria della libertà e della democrazia. In questo senso è molto triste che in Occidente il Giorno della Vittoria sia completamente dimenticato.
C'è anche un altro aspetto: secondo me il 9 maggio si celebra anche in chiave nazionalista la potenza e la gloria della Russia. Questo aspetto non è in sintonia con la cultura europea di oggi. L'Europa è un mondo dove non si ha tanta voglia di sventolare bandiere e ricordare guerre. Quando un generale ha il petto coperto di medaglie in Europa non è percepito come una cosa piacevole. Il veterano coperto di medaglie è una figura che si vede soltanto in Unione sovietica e in Russia infatti.

Quando un Paese esalta la propria gloria non piace. In Europa si è abituati a ritenere ogni parata militare sulla Piazza Rossa infatti come negativa, pericolosa e nemica. Fin qui parlo di una percezione occidentale, si può dire anche sbagliata, perché non vediamo il lato gioioso della parata.

— Che messaggio vorrebbe lanciare per questo 9 maggio?

— Indubbiamente la Seconda Guerra mondiale è stata vinta innanzitutto dall'Unione Sovietica in Europa. Una delle cose positive che dobbiamo ricordare della Seconda Guerra mondiale è che Paesi così lontani e ostili come gli Stati Uniti, la Gran Bretagna e l'Unione Sovietica sono stati capaci di allearsi e collaborare, questa è la cosa più bella.

Non c'è niente di male a dire che l'Unione Sovietica ha vinto anche grazie ad un forte appoggio occidentale, grazie alle forniture di armi. Guai a dimenticare però che la Wermacht è stata distrutta in Russia e non altrove, i tedeschi hanno sempre impegnato i tre quarti delle loro forze sul fronte russo, e che sono stati i russi ad arrivare a Berlino. Dal punto di vista militare il contributo sovietico è assolutamente decisivo, forse l'Unione Sovietica da sola però non avrebbe vinto.

Alla fine è importante celebrare il contributo sovietico specialmente di fronte ad un'opinione pubblica occidentale che rischia di dimenticarlo. Nel mondo di oggi la cosa che andrebbe inoltre ricordata è che l'abbiamo fatto insieme.

#9Maggio1945
#GiornoDellaVittoria
#VictoryDay
#ДеньПобеды
#GrandeGuerraPatriottica
#SecondaGuerraMondiale
#SconfittaDelNazismo
#Antifascismo
#Resistenza
#MemoriaStorica
#UnioneSovietica
#ArmataRossa
#FronteOrientale
#Stalingrado
#Berlino1945
#NazismoMaiPiù
#Liberazione
#StoriaEuropea
#AlessandroBarbero
#VeritàStorica
#MemoriaControLaRimozione
#OccidenteEMemoria
#StoriaNonPropaganda
#CadutiSovietici
#MaiDimenticare
#alessandrobarberolastoria

#9maggio1945 #giornodellavittoria #victoryday #деньпобеды #grandeguerrapatriottica #secondaguerramondiale

emama @[email protected] · 2026-05-09 · 12:24 UTC

9 maggio 1945: giorno della Vittoria, dimenticato dall’Occidente
9.05.2017
Intervista di Tatiana Santi ad Alessandro Barbero
Il 9 maggio è il Giorno della Vittoria dell’Unione Sovietica sul nazismo, la festa per eccellenza più sentita dai russi, quando tutti i pensieri sono rivolti ai caduti, all’immenso impegno dei civili e dei militari sovietici nella Seconda Guerra mondiale. Una data però dimenticata dall’Occidente, perché?
La vittoria sul nazismo è un avvenimento che riguarda tutti senza eccezione, ma perché il 9 maggio non viene né celebrato né ricordato in Europa?

— Professor Barbero, perché secondo lei il cinema e la narrazione mediatica occidentale dominante fanno apparire spesso e volentieri gli americani come i veri e soli liberatori? Un esempio su tutti è il film "La vita è bella" di Benigni dove a liberare Aushwitz sono gli americani.

— È un caso abbastanza vergognoso di come la storia sia stata comunicata e stravolta da un punto di vista ideologico e politico. Gli studiosi e gli specialisti lo sanno benissimo che la Seconda Guerra mondiale in Europa è stata vinta innanzitutto dall'Unione Sovietica e che il peso di questa vittoria è molto superiore rispetto a quella americana. Questo lo sanno gli specialisti, al popolo si racconta una storia diversa.
Ciò avviene secondo me perché tutti noi siamo cresciuti in un mondo diviso. In Occidente l'Unione Sovietica è diventata un nemico e ricordarsi che eravamo stati alleati era difficile.

— Perché?

— Scomponiamo la vicenda. Prima viene il mito americano. Noi in Occidente siamo effettivamente stati liberati dagli americani, che sono stati accolti con immenso entusiasmo. Fa parte proprio dei nostri presupposti immaginare la liberazione da parte degli americani, noi inoltre viviamo in un mondo dominato dai media americani, dalla memorialistica e dal cinema americani. Ricordiamo i film come "Il giorno più lungo" o il più recente "Salvate il soldato Rian". Lo sbarco in Normandia fa parte dell'immaginario collettivo e rappresenta la vittoria del bene contro il male. Invece la battaglia di Stalingrado è un'altra cosa.

— Cioè?

— Innanzitutto si svolge in un mondo lontano e poco conosciuto. Inoltre da una parte c'è il male, i tedeschi, ma dall'altra c'è pure il male: l'Unione sovietica di Stalin. Nella percezione occidentale quindi tuttora è molto difficile vedere quello scontro come un episodio dove i buoni vincono contro i cattivi. Abbiamo visto film di guerra americani da sempre, nessuno da noi vede film da guerra sovietici. La letteratura russa e sovietica è una letteratura grandiosa, ma da noi non la conosce nessuno a parte pochi autori.

Ci troviamo totalmente nella bolla di origine americana e della storia vediamo solo dei pezzi, tanto che Benigni, girando il suo film, ha semplicemente pensato: se la liberazione si manifesta con delle truppe sovietiche la gente non capirà! La gente è abituata a vedere le truppe sovietiche con una certa diffidenza.

— Qual è l'importanza del 9 maggio però anche per la stessa Europa?

— Celebrare la sconfitta contro il nazismo in tutto il mondo dovrebbe voler dire celebrare la vittoria della libertà e della democrazia. In questo senso è molto triste che in Occidente il Giorno della Vittoria sia completamente dimenticato.
C'è anche un altro aspetto: secondo me il 9 maggio si celebra anche in chiave nazionalista la potenza e la gloria della Russia. Questo aspetto non è in sintonia con la cultura europea di oggi. L'Europa è un mondo dove non si ha tanta voglia di sventolare bandiere e ricordare guerre. Quando un generale ha il petto coperto di medaglie in Europa non è percepito come una cosa piacevole. Il veterano coperto di medaglie è una figura che si vede soltanto in Unione sovietica e in Russia infatti.

Quando un Paese esalta la propria gloria non piace. In Europa si è abituati a ritenere ogni parata militare sulla Piazza Rossa infatti come negativa, pericolosa e nemica. Fin qui parlo di una percezione occidentale, si può dire anche sbagliata, perché non vediamo il lato gioioso della parata.

— Che messaggio vorrebbe lanciare per questo 9 maggio?

— Indubbiamente la Seconda Guerra mondiale è stata vinta innanzitutto dall'Unione Sovietica in Europa. Una delle cose positive che dobbiamo ricordare della Seconda Guerra mondiale è che Paesi così lontani e ostili come gli Stati Uniti, la Gran Bretagna e l'Unione Sovietica sono stati capaci di allearsi e collaborare, questa è la cosa più bella.

Non c'è niente di male a dire che l'Unione Sovietica ha vinto anche grazie ad un forte appoggio occidentale, grazie alle forniture di armi. Guai a dimenticare però che la Wermacht è stata distrutta in Russia e non altrove, i tedeschi hanno sempre impegnato i tre quarti delle loro forze sul fronte russo, e che sono stati i russi ad arrivare a Berlino. Dal punto di vista militare il contributo sovietico è assolutamente decisivo, forse l'Unione Sovietica da sola però non avrebbe vinto.

Alla fine è importante celebrare il contributo sovietico specialmente di fronte ad un'opinione pubblica occidentale che rischia di dimenticarlo. Nel mondo di oggi la cosa che andrebbe inoltre ricordata è che l'abbiamo fatto insieme.

#9Maggio1945
#GiornoDellaVittoria
#VictoryDay
#ДеньПобеды
#GrandeGuerraPatriottica
#SecondaGuerraMondiale
#SconfittaDelNazismo
#Antifascismo
#Resistenza
#MemoriaStorica
#UnioneSovietica
#ArmataRossa
#FronteOrientale
#Stalingrado
#Berlino1945
#NazismoMaiPiù
#Liberazione
#StoriaEuropea
#AlessandroBarbero
#VeritàStorica
#MemoriaControLaRimozione
#OccidenteEMemoria
#StoriaNonPropaganda
#CadutiSovietici
#MaiDimenticare
#alessandrobarberolastoria

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emama @[email protected] · 2026-05-09 · 12:24 UTC

9 maggio 1945: giorno della Vittoria, dimenticato dall’Occidente
9.05.2017
Intervista di Tatiana Santi ad Alessandro Barbero
Il 9 maggio è il Giorno della Vittoria dell’Unione Sovietica sul nazismo, la festa per eccellenza più sentita dai russi, quando tutti i pensieri sono rivolti ai caduti, all’immenso impegno dei civili e dei militari sovietici nella Seconda Guerra mondiale. Una data però dimenticata dall’Occidente, perché?
La vittoria sul nazismo è un avvenimento che riguarda tutti senza eccezione, ma perché il 9 maggio non viene né celebrato né ricordato in Europa?

— Professor Barbero, perché secondo lei il cinema e la narrazione mediatica occidentale dominante fanno apparire spesso e volentieri gli americani come i veri e soli liberatori? Un esempio su tutti è il film "La vita è bella" di Benigni dove a liberare Aushwitz sono gli americani.

— È un caso abbastanza vergognoso di come la storia sia stata comunicata e stravolta da un punto di vista ideologico e politico. Gli studiosi e gli specialisti lo sanno benissimo che la Seconda Guerra mondiale in Europa è stata vinta innanzitutto dall'Unione Sovietica e che il peso di questa vittoria è molto superiore rispetto a quella americana. Questo lo sanno gli specialisti, al popolo si racconta una storia diversa.
Ciò avviene secondo me perché tutti noi siamo cresciuti in un mondo diviso. In Occidente l'Unione Sovietica è diventata un nemico e ricordarsi che eravamo stati alleati era difficile.

— Perché?

— Scomponiamo la vicenda. Prima viene il mito americano. Noi in Occidente siamo effettivamente stati liberati dagli americani, che sono stati accolti con immenso entusiasmo. Fa parte proprio dei nostri presupposti immaginare la liberazione da parte degli americani, noi inoltre viviamo in un mondo dominato dai media americani, dalla memorialistica e dal cinema americani. Ricordiamo i film come "Il giorno più lungo" o il più recente "Salvate il soldato Rian". Lo sbarco in Normandia fa parte dell'immaginario collettivo e rappresenta la vittoria del bene contro il male. Invece la battaglia di Stalingrado è un'altra cosa.

— Cioè?

— Innanzitutto si svolge in un mondo lontano e poco conosciuto. Inoltre da una parte c'è il male, i tedeschi, ma dall'altra c'è pure il male: l'Unione sovietica di Stalin. Nella percezione occidentale quindi tuttora è molto difficile vedere quello scontro come un episodio dove i buoni vincono contro i cattivi. Abbiamo visto film di guerra americani da sempre, nessuno da noi vede film da guerra sovietici. La letteratura russa e sovietica è una letteratura grandiosa, ma da noi non la conosce nessuno a parte pochi autori.

Ci troviamo totalmente nella bolla di origine americana e della storia vediamo solo dei pezzi, tanto che Benigni, girando il suo film, ha semplicemente pensato: se la liberazione si manifesta con delle truppe sovietiche la gente non capirà! La gente è abituata a vedere le truppe sovietiche con una certa diffidenza.

— Qual è l'importanza del 9 maggio però anche per la stessa Europa?

— Celebrare la sconfitta contro il nazismo in tutto il mondo dovrebbe voler dire celebrare la vittoria della libertà e della democrazia. In questo senso è molto triste che in Occidente il Giorno della Vittoria sia completamente dimenticato.
C'è anche un altro aspetto: secondo me il 9 maggio si celebra anche in chiave nazionalista la potenza e la gloria della Russia. Questo aspetto non è in sintonia con la cultura europea di oggi. L'Europa è un mondo dove non si ha tanta voglia di sventolare bandiere e ricordare guerre. Quando un generale ha il petto coperto di medaglie in Europa non è percepito come una cosa piacevole. Il veterano coperto di medaglie è una figura che si vede soltanto in Unione sovietica e in Russia infatti.

Quando un Paese esalta la propria gloria non piace. In Europa si è abituati a ritenere ogni parata militare sulla Piazza Rossa infatti come negativa, pericolosa e nemica. Fin qui parlo di una percezione occidentale, si può dire anche sbagliata, perché non vediamo il lato gioioso della parata.

— Che messaggio vorrebbe lanciare per questo 9 maggio?

— Indubbiamente la Seconda Guerra mondiale è stata vinta innanzitutto dall'Unione Sovietica in Europa. Una delle cose positive che dobbiamo ricordare della Seconda Guerra mondiale è che Paesi così lontani e ostili come gli Stati Uniti, la Gran Bretagna e l'Unione Sovietica sono stati capaci di allearsi e collaborare, questa è la cosa più bella.

Non c'è niente di male a dire che l'Unione Sovietica ha vinto anche grazie ad un forte appoggio occidentale, grazie alle forniture di armi. Guai a dimenticare però che la Wermacht è stata distrutta in Russia e non altrove, i tedeschi hanno sempre impegnato i tre quarti delle loro forze sul fronte russo, e che sono stati i russi ad arrivare a Berlino. Dal punto di vista militare il contributo sovietico è assolutamente decisivo, forse l'Unione Sovietica da sola però non avrebbe vinto.

Alla fine è importante celebrare il contributo sovietico specialmente di fronte ad un'opinione pubblica occidentale che rischia di dimenticarlo. Nel mondo di oggi la cosa che andrebbe inoltre ricordata è che l'abbiamo fatto insieme.

#9maggio1945 #giornodellavittoria #victoryday #деньпобеды #grandeguerrapatriottica #secondaguerramondiale

Floreana @[email protected] · 2026-05-08 · 09:58 UTC

Sharing this powerful, historical speech from former President of the German Federation Richard von Weizsäcker commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of WWII.

#8mai #8mai1945 #TagDerBefreiung #8maggio #8maggio1945 #8may #8may1945 #history #storia #Liberazione

Vielen lieben dank an @AwetTesfaiesus fürs Teilen.

I could not find an Italian translation, so for now English will have to do.

My favorite excerpts:

Nobody will, because of that liberation, forget the grave suffering that only started for many people on 8 May. But we must not regard the end of the war as the cause of flight, expulsion and deprivation of freedom. The cause goes back to the start of the tyranny that brought about war. We must not separate 8 May 1945 from 30 January 1933.

Oh, does it sound prophetic today?

Perhaps the greatest burden was borne by the women of all nations. Their suffering, renunciation and silent strength are all too easily forgotten by history. Filled with fear, they worked, bore human
life and protected it. They mourned their fallen fathers and sons, husbands, brothers and friends. In the years of darkness, they ensured that the light of humanity was not extinguished. After the war, with no prospect of a secure future, women everywhere were the first to set about building homes again, the "rubble women" in Berlin and
elsewhere. When the men who had survived returned, women often had to take a back seat again. Because of the war, many women were left alone and spent their lives in solitude. Yet it is first and foremost thanks to the women that nations did not disintegrate spiritually on
account of the destruction, devastation, atrocities and inhumanity and that they gradually regained their foothold after the war.

Fuckin' PREACH! Why do I have to hear more progressive and acknowledging words from an old, white, German man in the 80ies than I hear today, even from way too many so-called progressives?! MORE OF THIS!

Hitler had never concealed this hatred
from the public, but made the entire nation a tool of it

Sounds true today again? Because it is, goddammit.

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

Yet here we are today, debating over the definition of genocide (or of child!), while looking away is literally impossible. Some of us will always be disgusting, some of us will always stick our heads in the sand in order to keep our lives undisturbed.

However, anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

And here we are, running a high fever. We've denied the validity of the vaccine called "studying history and learning from it".

On 23 August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact. The secret supplementary protocol made provision for the impending partition of Poland. That pact was made to give Hitler an opportunity to invade Poland. The Soviet leaders at the time were fully aware of this. And all who understood politics realized that the implications of the German-Soviet pact were Hitler's invasion of Poland and hence the Second World War.

Or: when madmen plainly tell you what shit they're going to do, fucking believe them and don't be an accomplice.

Time and again Hitler had declared that if the German nation was not capable of winning the war it should be left to perish.

Aspiring fascists todays don't give a fuck about anything by power, getting it, and keeping it. They don't give a fuck about the people they manipulate in order to grow consensus and grab that power. When (not if) shit hits the fan, the people are going to be sacrificed too.

Our aim is to seize the opportunity to draw a line under a long period of European history in which to every country peace seemed conceivable and safe only as a result of its own supremacy, and in which peace meant a
period of preparation for the next war.

And then the EU was born. It's not perfect, it's still but an infant, but can you even start to imagine what our collective European lives would be without it? We would likely still be bickering with each other and entangle in conflicts of all kinds. I want the EU to never forget its roots, dammit.

Transcending party differences, the democrats on the Council gave their answer to war and tyranny in Article 1 of our Constitution: “The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of any community, of peace and of justice in the world.” This further significance of 8 May should also be remembered today.

The Constitution is being shat upon by the current Government. Shame on it.

If we remember how people persecuted on grounds of race, religion and politics and threatened with certain death often stood before the closed borders with other countries, we shall not close the
door today on those who are genuinely persecuted and seek protection with us.

Like her or not, Angela Merkel was the last German leader to open the borders in the face of Syrian refugee crisis. I'll always respect her for that. Because of course "Wir schaffen das", Europe is RICH and has the means to help! Our citizens and refugees alike. Merz is pushing repatriations as a means to win the favour of AfD voters, go figure.

We seek friendship with the peoples of the Soviet Union.

Ah, that sweet, sweet perfume of warming relations towards the end of the Cold War. I literally cannot wait to smell this perfume again, once we are done with the current wave of fascist idiocracy.

We are confident that the 8th of May is not the last date in the common history of all Germans.

In just 4 years time, a new, significant common date would emerge: the 3rd of October, Tag der Wiedervereinigung, day of reunification of the two German states. Good things can come, and they do, with communal will and a widespread desire for peace! Hang in there, everyone! Don't shut up, ever!

Yet elsewhere (in the Book of Judges) it is described how often the memory of experienced assistance and rescue lasted only for 40 years. When that memory faded, tranquility was at an end. Forty years thus invariably constitute a significant time-span. Man perceives them as the end of a dark age bringing hope for a new and prosperous future, or as the onset of danger that the past might be forgotten and as a warning of the consequences. It is worth reflecting on both of these perceptions

We are now 81 years away from the end of WWII and 41 years apart from this speech. Two generations past the horror, one generation past the optimism spreading in the 80ies, and the cycle is trying to repeat itself. But we have broken it once, in choosing to merge in the EU instead of remaining completely separated and isolated countries, and this has given us security and prosperity. We can fucking do it again! Send the nazis worldwide back to their corner! Make it shameful to be one again! FUCK 'EM AWAY FROM THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE EVERYWHERE!

From our own history we learn what man is capable of. For that reason we
must not imagine that we are now quite different and have become better. There is no ultimately achievable moral perfection – for no individual and for no nation. We have learned as human beings, and as human beings we remain in danger. But we have the strength to overcome such danger again and again.

HELL YES we can!

Hitler's constant approach was to stir up prejudices, enmity and hatred. What is asked of young people today is this: do not let yourselves be forced into enmity and hatred of other people. (...) Learn to live together, not in opposition to each
other.

I feel we have stopped teaching this, at some point, if we ever even properly started. This is both an individual responsibility of parents, and a collective responsibility of nations through their educational systems. Children are a blank page to fill up with color, not with gothic black letters.

On this 8th of May, let us face up as well as we can to the truth

In a world swamped in lies and fabrications, truth still matters and ultimately prevails.

Full English text here: https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Reden/2015/02/150202-RvW-Rede-8-Mai-1985-englisch.pdf

#8mai #8mai1945 #tagderbefreiung #8maggio #8maggio1945 #8may

Floreana @[email protected] · 2026-05-08 · 09:58 UTC

Sharing this powerful, historical speech from former President of the German Federation Richard von Weizsäcker commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of WWII.

#8mai #8mai1945 #TagDerBefreiung #8maggio #8maggio1945 #8may #8may1945 #history #storia #Liberazione

Vielen lieben dank an @AwetTesfaiesus fürs Teilen.

I could not find an Italian translation, so for now English will have to do.

My favorite excerpts:

Nobody will, because of that liberation, forget the grave suffering that only started for many people on 8 May. But we must not regard the end of the war as the cause of flight, expulsion and deprivation of freedom. The cause goes back to the start of the tyranny that brought about war. We must not separate 8 May 1945 from 30 January 1933.

Oh, does it sound prophetic today?

Perhaps the greatest burden was borne by the women of all nations. Their suffering, renunciation and silent strength are all too easily forgotten by history. Filled with fear, they worked, bore human
life and protected it. They mourned their fallen fathers and sons, husbands, brothers and friends. In the years of darkness, they ensured that the light of humanity was not extinguished. After the war, with no prospect of a secure future, women everywhere were the first to set about building homes again, the "rubble women" in Berlin and
elsewhere. When the men who had survived returned, women often had to take a back seat again. Because of the war, many women were left alone and spent their lives in solitude. Yet it is first and foremost thanks to the women that nations did not disintegrate spiritually on
account of the destruction, devastation, atrocities and inhumanity and that they gradually regained their foothold after the war.

Fuckin' PREACH! Why do I have to hear more progressive and acknowledging words from an old, white, German man in the 80ies than I hear today, even from way too many so-called progressives?! MORE OF THIS!

Hitler had never concealed this hatred
from the public, but made the entire nation a tool of it

Sounds true today again? Because it is, goddammit.

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

Yet here we are today, debating over the definition of genocide (or of child!), while looking away is literally impossible. Some of us will always be disgusting, some of us will always stick our heads in the sand in order to keep our lives undisturbed.

However, anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

And here we are, running a high fever. We've denied the validity of the vaccine called "studying history and learning from it".

On 23 August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact. The secret supplementary protocol made provision for the impending partition of Poland. That pact was made to give Hitler an opportunity to invade Poland. The Soviet leaders at the time were fully aware of this. And all who understood politics realized that the implications of the German-Soviet pact were Hitler's invasion of Poland and hence the Second World War.

Or: when madmen plainly tell you what shit they're going to do, fucking believe them and don't be an accomplice.

Time and again Hitler had declared that if the German nation was not capable of winning the war it should be left to perish.

Aspiring fascists todays don't give a fuck about anything by power, getting it, and keeping it. They don't give a fuck about the people they manipulate in order to grow consensus and grab that power. When (not if) shit hits the fan, the people are going to be sacrificed too.

Our aim is to seize the opportunity to draw a line under a long period of European history in which to every country peace seemed conceivable and safe only as a result of its own supremacy, and in which peace meant a
period of preparation for the next war.

And then the EU was born. It's not perfect, it's still but an infant, but can you even start to imagine what our collective European lives would be without it? We would likely still be bickering with each other and entangle in conflicts of all kinds. I want the EU to never forget its roots, dammit.

Transcending party differences, the democrats on the Council gave their answer to war and tyranny in Article 1 of our Constitution: “The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of any community, of peace and of justice in the world.” This further significance of 8 May should also be remembered today.

The Constitution is being shat upon by the current Government. Shame on it.

If we remember how people persecuted on grounds of race, religion and politics and threatened with certain death often stood before the closed borders with other countries, we shall not close the
door today on those who are genuinely persecuted and seek protection with us.

Like her or not, Angela Merkel was the last German leader to open the borders in the face of Syrian refugee crisis. I'll always respect her for that. Because of course "Wir schaffen das", Europe is RICH and has the means to help! Our citizens and refugees alike. Merz is pushing repatriations as a means to win the favour of AfD voters, go figure.

We seek friendship with the peoples of the Soviet Union.

Ah, that sweet, sweet perfume of warming relations towards the end of the Cold War. I literally cannot wait to smell this perfume again, once we are done with the current wave of fascist idiocracy.

We are confident that the 8th of May is not the last date in the common history of all Germans.

In just 4 years time, a new, significant common date would emerge: the 3rd of October, Tag der Wiedervereinigung, day of reunification of the two German states. Good things can come, and they do, with communal will and a widespread desire for peace! Hang in there, everyone! Don't shut up, ever!

Yet elsewhere (in the Book of Judges) it is described how often the memory of experienced assistance and rescue lasted only for 40 years. When that memory faded, tranquility was at an end. Forty years thus invariably constitute a significant time-span. Man perceives them as the end of a dark age bringing hope for a new and prosperous future, or as the onset of danger that the past might be forgotten and as a warning of the consequences. It is worth reflecting on both of these perceptions

We are now 81 years away from the end of WWII and 41 years apart from this speech. Two generations past the horror, one generation past the optimism spreading in the 80ies, and the cycle is trying to repeat itself. But we have broken it once, in choosing to merge in the EU instead of remaining completely separated and isolated countries, and this has given us security and prosperity. We can fucking do it again! Send the nazis worldwide back to their corner! Make it shameful to be one again! FUCK 'EM AWAY FROM THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE EVERYWHERE!

From our own history we learn what man is capable of. For that reason we
must not imagine that we are now quite different and have become better. There is no ultimately achievable moral perfection – for no individual and for no nation. We have learned as human beings, and as human beings we remain in danger. But we have the strength to overcome such danger again and again.

HELL YES we can!

Hitler's constant approach was to stir up prejudices, enmity and hatred. What is asked of young people today is this: do not let yourselves be forced into enmity and hatred of other people. (...) Learn to live together, not in opposition to each
other.

I feel we have stopped teaching this, at some point, if we ever even properly started. This is both an individual responsibility of parents, and a collective responsibility of nations through their educational systems. Children are a blank page to fill up with color, not with gothic black letters.

On this 8th of May, let us face up as well as we can to the truth

In a world swamped in lies and fabrications, truth still matters and ultimately prevails.

Full English text here: https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Reden/2015/02/150202-RvW-Rede-8-Mai-1985-englisch.pdf

#8mai #8mai1945 #tagderbefreiung #8maggio #8maggio1945 #8may

Floreana @[email protected] · 2026-05-08 · 09:58 UTC

Sharing this powerful, historical speech from former President of the German Federation Richard von Weizsäcker commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of WWII.

#8mai #8mai1945 #TagDerBefreiung #8maggio #8maggio1945 #8may #8may1945 #history #storia #Liberazione

Vielen lieben dank an @AwetTesfaiesus fürs Teilen.

I could not find an Italian translation, so for now English will have to do.

My favorite excerpts:

Nobody will, because of that liberation, forget the grave suffering that only started for many people on 8 May. But we must not regard the end of the war as the cause of flight, expulsion and deprivation of freedom. The cause goes back to the start of the tyranny that brought about war. We must not separate 8 May 1945 from 30 January 1933.

Oh, does it sound prophetic today?

Perhaps the greatest burden was borne by the women of all nations. Their suffering, renunciation and silent strength are all too easily forgotten by history. Filled with fear, they worked, bore human
life and protected it. They mourned their fallen fathers and sons, husbands, brothers and friends. In the years of darkness, they ensured that the light of humanity was not extinguished. After the war, with no prospect of a secure future, women everywhere were the first to set about building homes again, the "rubble women" in Berlin and
elsewhere. When the men who had survived returned, women often had to take a back seat again. Because of the war, many women were left alone and spent their lives in solitude. Yet it is first and foremost thanks to the women that nations did not disintegrate spiritually on
account of the destruction, devastation, atrocities and inhumanity and that they gradually regained their foothold after the war.

Fuckin' PREACH! Why do I have to hear more progressive and acknowledging words from an old, white, German man in the 80ies than I hear today, even from way too many so-called progressives?! MORE OF THIS!

Hitler had never concealed this hatred
from the public, but made the entire nation a tool of it

Sounds true today again? Because it is, goddammit.

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

Yet here we are today, debating over the definition of genocide (or of child!), while looking away is literally impossible. Some of us will always be disgusting, some of us will always stick our heads in the sand in order to keep our lives undisturbed.

However, anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

And here we are, running a high fever. We've denied the validity of the vaccine called "studying history and learning from it".

On 23 August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact. The secret supplementary protocol made provision for the impending partition of Poland. That pact was made to give Hitler an opportunity to invade Poland. The Soviet leaders at the time were fully aware of this. And all who understood politics realized that the implications of the German-Soviet pact were Hitler's invasion of Poland and hence the Second World War.

Or: when madmen plainly tell you what shit they're going to do, fucking believe them and don't be an accomplice.

Time and again Hitler had declared that if the German nation was not capable of winning the war it should be left to perish.

Aspiring fascists todays don't give a fuck about anything by power, getting it, and keeping it. They don't give a fuck about the people they manipulate in order to grow consensus and grab that power. When (not if) shit hits the fan, the people are going to be sacrificed too.

Our aim is to seize the opportunity to draw a line under a long period of European history in which to every country peace seemed conceivable and safe only as a result of its own supremacy, and in which peace meant a
period of preparation for the next war.

And then the EU was born. It's not perfect, it's still but an infant, but can you even start to imagine what our collective European lives would be without it? We would likely still be bickering with each other and entangle in conflicts of all kinds. I want the EU to never forget its roots, dammit.

Transcending party differences, the democrats on the Council gave their answer to war and tyranny in Article 1 of our Constitution: “The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of any community, of peace and of justice in the world.” This further significance of 8 May should also be remembered today.

The Constitution is being shat upon by the current Government. Shame on it.

If we remember how people persecuted on grounds of race, religion and politics and threatened with certain death often stood before the closed borders with other countries, we shall not close the
door today on those who are genuinely persecuted and seek protection with us.

Like her or not, Angela Merkel was the last German leader to open the borders in the face of Syrian refugee crisis. I'll always respect her for that. Because of course "Wir schaffen das", Europe is RICH and has the means to help! Our citizens and refugees alike. Merz is pushing repatriations as a means to win the favour of AfD voters, go figure.

We seek friendship with the peoples of the Soviet Union.

Ah, that sweet, sweet perfume of warming relations towards the end of the Cold War. I literally cannot wait to smell this perfume again, once we are done with the current wave of fascist idiocracy.

We are confident that the 8th of May is not the last date in the common history of all Germans.

In just 4 years time, a new, significant common date would emerge: the 3rd of October, Tag der Wiedervereinigung, day of reunification of the two German states. Good things can come, and they do, with communal will and a widespread desire for peace! Hang in there, everyone! Don't shut up, ever!

Yet elsewhere (in the Book of Judges) it is described how often the memory of experienced assistance and rescue lasted only for 40 years. When that memory faded, tranquility was at an end. Forty years thus invariably constitute a significant time-span. Man perceives them as the end of a dark age bringing hope for a new and prosperous future, or as the onset of danger that the past might be forgotten and as a warning of the consequences. It is worth reflecting on both of these perceptions

We are now 81 years away from the end of WWII and 41 years apart from this speech. Two generations past the horror, one generation past the optimism spreading in the 80ies, and the cycle is trying to repeat itself. But we have broken it once, in choosing to merge in the EU instead of remaining completely separated and isolated countries, and this has given us security and prosperity. We can fucking do it again! Send the nazis worldwide back to their corner! Make it shameful to be one again! FUCK 'EM AWAY FROM THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE EVERYWHERE!

From our own history we learn what man is capable of. For that reason we
must not imagine that we are now quite different and have become better. There is no ultimately achievable moral perfection – for no individual and for no nation. We have learned as human beings, and as human beings we remain in danger. But we have the strength to overcome such danger again and again.

HELL YES we can!

Hitler's constant approach was to stir up prejudices, enmity and hatred. What is asked of young people today is this: do not let yourselves be forced into enmity and hatred of other people. (...) Learn to live together, not in opposition to each
other.

I feel we have stopped teaching this, at some point, if we ever even properly started. This is both an individual responsibility of parents, and a collective responsibility of nations through their educational systems. Children are a blank page to fill up with color, not with gothic black letters.

On this 8th of May, let us face up as well as we can to the truth

In a world swamped in lies and fabrications, truth still matters and ultimately prevails.

Full English text here: https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Reden/2015/02/150202-RvW-Rede-8-Mai-1985-englisch.pdf

#8mai #8mai1945 #tagderbefreiung #8maggio #8maggio1945 #8may

Floreana @[email protected] · 2026-05-08 · 09:58 UTC

Sharing this powerful, historical speech from former President of the German Federation Richard von Weizsäcker commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of WWII.

#8mai #8mai1945 #TagDerBefreiung #8maggio #8maggio1945 #8may #8may1945 #history #storia #Liberazione

Vielen lieben dank an @AwetTesfaiesus fürs Teilen.

I could not find an Italian translation, so for now English will have to do.

My favorite excerpts:

Nobody will, because of that liberation, forget the grave suffering that only started for many people on 8 May. But we must not regard the end of the war as the cause of flight, expulsion and deprivation of freedom. The cause goes back to the start of the tyranny that brought about war. We must not separate 8 May 1945 from 30 January 1933.

Oh, does it sound prophetic today?

Perhaps the greatest burden was borne by the women of all nations. Their suffering, renunciation and silent strength are all too easily forgotten by history. Filled with fear, they worked, bore human
life and protected it. They mourned their fallen fathers and sons, husbands, brothers and friends. In the years of darkness, they ensured that the light of humanity was not extinguished. After the war, with no prospect of a secure future, women everywhere were the first to set about building homes again, the "rubble women" in Berlin and
elsewhere. When the men who had survived returned, women often had to take a back seat again. Because of the war, many women were left alone and spent their lives in solitude. Yet it is first and foremost thanks to the women that nations did not disintegrate spiritually on
account of the destruction, devastation, atrocities and inhumanity and that they gradually regained their foothold after the war.

Fuckin' PREACH! Why do I have to hear more progressive and acknowledging words from an old, white, German man in the 80ies than I hear today, even from way too many so-called progressives?! MORE OF THIS!

Hitler had never concealed this hatred
from the public, but made the entire nation a tool of it

Sounds true today again? Because it is, goddammit.

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

Yet here we are today, debating over the definition of genocide (or of child!), while looking away is literally impossible. Some of us will always be disgusting, some of us will always stick our heads in the sand in order to keep our lives undisturbed.

However, anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

And here we are, running a high fever. We've denied the validity of the vaccine called "studying history and learning from it".

On 23 August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact. The secret supplementary protocol made provision for the impending partition of Poland. That pact was made to give Hitler an opportunity to invade Poland. The Soviet leaders at the time were fully aware of this. And all who understood politics realized that the implications of the German-Soviet pact were Hitler's invasion of Poland and hence the Second World War.

Or: when madmen plainly tell you what shit they're going to do, fucking believe them and don't be an accomplice.

Time and again Hitler had declared that if the German nation was not capable of winning the war it should be left to perish.

Aspiring fascists todays don't give a fuck about anything by power, getting it, and keeping it. They don't give a fuck about the people they manipulate in order to grow consensus and grab that power. When (not if) shit hits the fan, the people are going to be sacrificed too.

Our aim is to seize the opportunity to draw a line under a long period of European history in which to every country peace seemed conceivable and safe only as a result of its own supremacy, and in which peace meant a
period of preparation for the next war.

And then the EU was born. It's not perfect, it's still but an infant, but can you even start to imagine what our collective European lives would be without it? We would likely still be bickering with each other and entangle in conflicts of all kinds. I want the EU to never forget its roots, dammit.

Transcending party differences, the democrats on the Council gave their answer to war and tyranny in Article 1 of our Constitution: “The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of any community, of peace and of justice in the world.” This further significance of 8 May should also be remembered today.

The Constitution is being shat upon by the current Government. Shame on it.

If we remember how people persecuted on grounds of race, religion and politics and threatened with certain death often stood before the closed borders with other countries, we shall not close the
door today on those who are genuinely persecuted and seek protection with us.

Like her or not, Angela Merkel was the last German leader to open the borders in the face of Syrian refugee crisis. I'll always respect her for that. Because of course "Wir schaffen das", Europe is RICH and has the means to help! Our citizens and refugees alike. Merz is pushing repatriations as a means to win the favour of AfD voters, go figure.

We seek friendship with the peoples of the Soviet Union.

Ah, that sweet, sweet perfume of warming relations towards the end of the Cold War. I literally cannot wait to smell this perfume again, once we are done with the current wave of fascist idiocracy.

We are confident that the 8th of May is not the last date in the common history of all Germans.

In just 4 years time, a new, significant common date would emerge: the 3rd of October, Tag der Wiedervereinigung, day of reunification of the two German states. Good things can come, and they do, with communal will and a widespread desire for peace! Hang in there, everyone! Don't shut up, ever!

Yet elsewhere (in the Book of Judges) it is described how often the memory of experienced assistance and rescue lasted only for 40 years. When that memory faded, tranquility was at an end. Forty years thus invariably constitute a significant time-span. Man perceives them as the end of a dark age bringing hope for a new and prosperous future, or as the onset of danger that the past might be forgotten and as a warning of the consequences. It is worth reflecting on both of these perceptions

We are now 81 years away from the end of WWII and 41 years apart from this speech. Two generations past the horror, one generation past the optimism spreading in the 80ies, and the cycle is trying to repeat itself. But we have broken it once, in choosing to merge in the EU instead of remaining completely separated and isolated countries, and this has given us security and prosperity. We can fucking do it again! Send the nazis worldwide back to their corner! Make it shameful to be one again! FUCK 'EM AWAY FROM THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE EVERYWHERE!

From our own history we learn what man is capable of. For that reason we
must not imagine that we are now quite different and have become better. There is no ultimately achievable moral perfection – for no individual and for no nation. We have learned as human beings, and as human beings we remain in danger. But we have the strength to overcome such danger again and again.

HELL YES we can!

Hitler's constant approach was to stir up prejudices, enmity and hatred. What is asked of young people today is this: do not let yourselves be forced into enmity and hatred of other people. (...) Learn to live together, not in opposition to each
other.

I feel we have stopped teaching this, at some point, if we ever even properly started. This is both an individual responsibility of parents, and a collective responsibility of nations through their educational systems. Children are a blank page to fill up with color, not with gothic black letters.

On this 8th of May, let us face up as well as we can to the truth

In a world swamped in lies and fabrications, truth still matters and ultimately prevails.

Full English text here: https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Reden/2015/02/150202-RvW-Rede-8-Mai-1985-englisch.pdf

#liberazione #storia #history #8may1945 #8may #8maggio1945

Floreana @[email protected] · 2026-05-08 · 09:58 UTC

Sharing this powerful, historical speech from former President of the German Federation Richard von Weizsäcker commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of WWII.

#8mai #8mai1945 #TagDerBefreiung #8maggio #8maggio1945 #8may #8may1945 #history #storia #Liberazione

Vielen lieben dank an @AwetTesfaiesus fürs Teilen.

I could not find an Italian translation, so for now English will have to do.

My favorite excerpts:

Nobody will, because of that liberation, forget the grave suffering that only started for many people on 8 May. But we must not regard the end of the war as the cause of flight, expulsion and deprivation of freedom. The cause goes back to the start of the tyranny that brought about war. We must not separate 8 May 1945 from 30 January 1933.

Oh, does it sound prophetic today?

Perhaps the greatest burden was borne by the women of all nations. Their suffering, renunciation and silent strength are all too easily forgotten by history. Filled with fear, they worked, bore human
life and protected it. They mourned their fallen fathers and sons, husbands, brothers and friends. In the years of darkness, they ensured that the light of humanity was not extinguished. After the war, with no prospect of a secure future, women everywhere were the first to set about building homes again, the "rubble women" in Berlin and
elsewhere. When the men who had survived returned, women often had to take a back seat again. Because of the war, many women were left alone and spent their lives in solitude. Yet it is first and foremost thanks to the women that nations did not disintegrate spiritually on
account of the destruction, devastation, atrocities and inhumanity and that they gradually regained their foothold after the war.

Fuckin' PREACH! Why do I have to hear more progressive and acknowledging words from an old, white, German man in the 80ies than I hear today, even from way too many so-called progressives?! MORE OF THIS!

Hitler had never concealed this hatred
from the public, but made the entire nation a tool of it

Sounds true today again? Because it is, goddammit.

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.

Yet here we are today, debating over the definition of genocide (or of child!), while looking away is literally impossible. Some of us will always be disgusting, some of us will always stick our heads in the sand in order to keep our lives undisturbed.

However, anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

And here we are, running a high fever. We've denied the validity of the vaccine called "studying history and learning from it".

On 23 August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact. The secret supplementary protocol made provision for the impending partition of Poland. That pact was made to give Hitler an opportunity to invade Poland. The Soviet leaders at the time were fully aware of this. And all who understood politics realized that the implications of the German-Soviet pact were Hitler's invasion of Poland and hence the Second World War.

Or: when madmen plainly tell you what shit they're going to do, fucking believe them and don't be an accomplice.

Time and again Hitler had declared that if the German nation was not capable of winning the war it should be left to perish.

Aspiring fascists todays don't give a fuck about anything by power, getting it, and keeping it. They don't give a fuck about the people they manipulate in order to grow consensus and grab that power. When (not if) shit hits the fan, the people are going to be sacrificed too.

Our aim is to seize the opportunity to draw a line under a long period of European history in which to every country peace seemed conceivable and safe only as a result of its own supremacy, and in which peace meant a
period of preparation for the next war.

And then the EU was born. It's not perfect, it's still but an infant, but can you even start to imagine what our collective European lives would be without it? We would likely still be bickering with each other and entangle in conflicts of all kinds. I want the EU to never forget its roots, dammit.

Transcending party differences, the democrats on the Council gave their answer to war and tyranny in Article 1 of our Constitution: “The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of any community, of peace and of justice in the world.” This further significance of 8 May should also be remembered today.

The Constitution is being shat upon by the current Government. Shame on it.

If we remember how people persecuted on grounds of race, religion and politics and threatened with certain death often stood before the closed borders with other countries, we shall not close the
door today on those who are genuinely persecuted and seek protection with us.

Like her or not, Angela Merkel was the last German leader to open the borders in the face of Syrian refugee crisis. I'll always respect her for that. Because of course "Wir schaffen das", Europe is RICH and has the means to help! Our citizens and refugees alike. Merz is pushing repatriations as a means to win the favour of AfD voters, go figure.

We seek friendship with the peoples of the Soviet Union.

Ah, that sweet, sweet perfume of warming relations towards the end of the Cold War. I literally cannot wait to smell this perfume again, once we are done with the current wave of fascist idiocracy.

We are confident that the 8th of May is not the last date in the common history of all Germans.

In just 4 years time, a new, significant common date would emerge: the 3rd of October, Tag der Wiedervereinigung, day of reunification of the two German states. Good things can come, and they do, with communal will and a widespread desire for peace! Hang in there, everyone! Don't shut up, ever!

Yet elsewhere (in the Book of Judges) it is described how often the memory of experienced assistance and rescue lasted only for 40 years. When that memory faded, tranquility was at an end. Forty years thus invariably constitute a significant time-span. Man perceives them as the end of a dark age bringing hope for a new and prosperous future, or as the onset of danger that the past might be forgotten and as a warning of the consequences. It is worth reflecting on both of these perceptions

We are now 81 years away from the end of WWII and 41 years apart from this speech. Two generations past the horror, one generation past the optimism spreading in the 80ies, and the cycle is trying to repeat itself. But we have broken it once, in choosing to merge in the EU instead of remaining completely separated and isolated countries, and this has given us security and prosperity. We can fucking do it again! Send the nazis worldwide back to their corner! Make it shameful to be one again! FUCK 'EM AWAY FROM THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE EVERYWHERE!

From our own history we learn what man is capable of. For that reason we
must not imagine that we are now quite different and have become better. There is no ultimately achievable moral perfection – for no individual and for no nation. We have learned as human beings, and as human beings we remain in danger. But we have the strength to overcome such danger again and again.

HELL YES we can!

Hitler's constant approach was to stir up prejudices, enmity and hatred. What is asked of young people today is this: do not let yourselves be forced into enmity and hatred of other people. (...) Learn to live together, not in opposition to each
other.

I feel we have stopped teaching this, at some point, if we ever even properly started. This is both an individual responsibility of parents, and a collective responsibility of nations through their educational systems. Children are a blank page to fill up with color, not with gothic black letters.

On this 8th of May, let us face up as well as we can to the truth

In a world swamped in lies and fabrications, truth still matters and ultimately prevails.

Full English text here: https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Reden/2015/02/150202-RvW-Rede-8-Mai-1985-englisch.pdf

#8mai #8mai1945 #tagderbefreiung #8maggio #8maggio1945 #8may

Italia @[email protected] · 2026-05-07 · 04:32 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/it/478290/ Inter, Nico Paz non solo sogno: ecco su cosa sta lavorando la società #Calcio #campo #davvero #DavveroSerio #DavveroSerioNico #estate #EstateNerazzurra #EstateNerazzurraStrategia #Football #Inter #InterVuole #InterVuoleDavvero #IT #Italia #Italy #liberazione #madrid #mercato #MercatoEstate #MercatoEstateNerazzurra #nerazzurra #NerazzurraStrategia #nico #NicoPaz #paz #ragazzo #real #Soccer #sogno #Sport #Sports

#sports #sport #sogno #soccer #real #ragazzo

Il Mitte Berlino @[email protected] · 2026-05-04 · 09:00 UTC

Durante le celebrazioni saranno vietati tutti i simboli considerati di propaganda filo-putiniana o che glorifichino la guerra in Ucraina.

#tagdessieges #liberazione #berlino

https://www.ilmitte.com/2026/05/giornata-della-vittoria-2026-divieti/

#tagdessieges #liberazione #berlino

Libero Pensiero @[email protected] · 2026-04-29 · 10:12 UTC

Il 25 aprile è la data della #Liberazione d'Italia dal #nazifascismo, ma la storia non si scrive in un giorno e la Liberazione di Venezia ne è la prova.
https://www.liberopensiero.eu/29/04/2026/attualita/liberazione-di-venezia-la-vittoria-del-29-aprile/?fsp_sid=6941

#liberazione #nazifascismo

aquilone @aquilone · 2026-04-28 · 20:42 UTC

Del resto non è difficile da capire: al corteo della #Liberazione non si portano le bandiere di chi ha scatenato guerre e massacri. https://www.radiopopolare.it/non-e-un-diversivo-non-e-antisemitismo-al-corteo-della-liberazione-non-ci-stanno-le-bandiere-di-chi-ha-scatenato-guerre-e-massacri

#liberazione

Simone Cumbo @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 22:20 UTC

#25aprile #liberazione

Simone Cumbo @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 22:20 UTC

#25aprile #liberazione

#liberazione #25aprile

Simone Cumbo @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 22:20 UTC

#25aprile #liberazione

L'ultima finta @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 21:08 UTC

Gino Bartali: l'ultima volata di un italiano giusto

L'ultima finta @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 21:08 UTC

Gino Bartali: l'ultima volata di un italiano giusto

L'ultima finta @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 21:08 UTC

Gino Bartali: l'ultima volata di un italiano giusto

#italia #sport #ciclismo #liberazione #25aprile

L'ultima finta @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 21:08 UTC

Gino Bartali: l'ultima volata di un italiano giusto

Vicenza per la Palestina @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 19:31 UTC

Giriamo da Global Project:

🌹 25 APRILE - SCHIO

Oggi a Schio in occasione del 25 aprile oltre 500 persone hanno sfilato in corteo per festeggiare la liberazione d'Italia dall'oppressione fascista e dall'occupazione tedesca.

La manifestazione ha ribadito la necessità di costruire un'opposizione contro la guerra, il genocidio, il razzismo e l'autoritarismo, contro i nuovi re, le loro guerre, la loro economia e i confini che distruggono vite in tanti paesi segnati dall'escalation militare e dalla povertà.

Gli interventi hanno sottolineato anche la situazione in Italia dove si sperimentano nuovi livelli di repressione e autoritarismo: decreti sicurezza, chiusura degli spazi sociali e dei momenti di confronto nelle scuole, fino agli attacchi diretti al diritto di manifestare.

Vicenza per la Palestina @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 19:31 UTC

Giriamo da Global Project:

🌹 25 APRILE - SCHIO

Oggi a Schio in occasione del 25 aprile oltre 500 persone hanno sfilato in corteo per festeggiare la liberazione d'Italia dall'oppressione fascista e dall'occupazione tedesca.

La manifestazione ha ribadito la necessità di costruire un'opposizione contro la guerra, il genocidio, il razzismo e l'autoritarismo, contro i nuovi re, le loro guerre, la loro economia e i confini che distruggono vite in tanti paesi segnati dall'escalation militare e dalla povertà.

Gli interventi hanno sottolineato anche la situazione in Italia dove si sperimentano nuovi livelli di repressione e autoritarismo: decreti sicurezza, chiusura degli spazi sociali e dei momenti di confronto nelle scuole, fino agli attacchi diretti al diritto di manifestare.

Vicenza per la Palestina @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 19:31 UTC

Giriamo da Global Project:

🌹 25 APRILE - SCHIO

Oggi a Schio in occasione del 25 aprile oltre 500 persone hanno sfilato in corteo per festeggiare la liberazione d'Italia dall'oppressione fascista e dall'occupazione tedesca.

La manifestazione ha ribadito la necessità di costruire un'opposizione contro la guerra, il genocidio, il razzismo e l'autoritarismo, contro i nuovi re, le loro guerre, la loro economia e i confini che distruggono vite in tanti paesi segnati dall'escalation militare e dalla povertà.

Gli interventi hanno sottolineato anche la situazione in Italia dove si sperimentano nuovi livelli di repressione e autoritarismo: decreti sicurezza, chiusura degli spazi sociali e dei momenti di confronto nelle scuole, fino agli attacchi diretti al diritto di manifestare.

Vicenza per la Palestina @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 19:31 UTC

Giriamo da Global Project:

🌹 25 APRILE - SCHIO

Oggi a Schio in occasione del 25 aprile oltre 500 persone hanno sfilato in corteo per festeggiare la liberazione d'Italia dall'oppressione fascista e dall'occupazione tedesca.

La manifestazione ha ribadito la necessità di costruire un'opposizione contro la guerra, il genocidio, il razzismo e l'autoritarismo, contro i nuovi re, le loro guerre, la loro economia e i confini che distruggono vite in tanti paesi segnati dall'escalation militare e dalla povertà.

Gli interventi hanno sottolineato anche la situazione in Italia dove si sperimentano nuovi livelli di repressione e autoritarismo: decreti sicurezza, chiusura degli spazi sociali e dei momenti di confronto nelle scuole, fino agli attacchi diretti al diritto di manifestare.

#antifascismo #antifa #liberazione #25aprile

Vicenza per la Palestina @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 19:31 UTC

Giriamo da Global Project:

🌹 25 APRILE - SCHIO

Oggi a Schio in occasione del 25 aprile oltre 500 persone hanno sfilato in corteo per festeggiare la liberazione d'Italia dall'oppressione fascista e dall'occupazione tedesca.

La manifestazione ha ribadito la necessità di costruire un'opposizione contro la guerra, il genocidio, il razzismo e l'autoritarismo, contro i nuovi re, le loro guerre, la loro economia e i confini che distruggono vite in tanti paesi segnati dall'escalation militare e dalla povertà.

Gli interventi hanno sottolineato anche la situazione in Italia dove si sperimentano nuovi livelli di repressione e autoritarismo: decreti sicurezza, chiusura degli spazi sociali e dei momenti di confronto nelle scuole, fino agli attacchi diretti al diritto di manifestare.

https://ilmanifesto.it/nuovo-fascismo-antidoti-attivi

Alx 🐈 @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 19:09 UTC

“ Eravamo un paese in macerie che avviò la sua ricostruzione democratica con una sequenza di riforme storiche concentrate nel breve corso di un biennio davvero straordinario, fra il 1945 e il 1947: diritto di voto alle donne, passaggio dalla monarchia alla repubblica, stesura di una carta costituzionale. Un’accelerazione resa possibile dall’esperienza partigiana che riunì le diverse culture antifasciste. Non fu un regalo degli Alleati.”

https://ilmanifesto.it/nuovo-fascismo-antidoti-attivi

#25aprile #liberazione #italia

Alx 🐈 @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 19:09 UTC

“ Eravamo un paese in macerie che avviò la sua ricostruzione democratica con una sequenza di riforme storiche concentrate nel breve corso di un biennio davvero straordinario, fra il 1945 e il 1947: diritto di voto alle donne, passaggio dalla monarchia alla repubblica, stesura di una carta costituzionale. Un’accelerazione resa possibile dall’esperienza partigiana che riunì le diverse culture antifasciste. Non fu un regalo degli Alleati.”

https://ilmanifesto.it/nuovo-fascismo-antidoti-attivi

#25aprile #liberazione #italia

Alx 🐈 @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 19:09 UTC

“ Eravamo un paese in macerie che avviò la sua ricostruzione democratica con una sequenza di riforme storiche concentrate nel breve corso di un biennio davvero straordinario, fra il 1945 e il 1947: diritto di voto alle donne, passaggio dalla monarchia alla repubblica, stesura di una carta costituzionale. Un’accelerazione resa possibile dall’esperienza partigiana che riunì le diverse culture antifasciste. Non fu un regalo degli Alleati.”

https://ilmanifesto.it/nuovo-fascismo-antidoti-attivi

#25aprile #liberazione #italia

Alx 🐈 @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 19:09 UTC

“ Eravamo un paese in macerie che avviò la sua ricostruzione democratica con una sequenza di riforme storiche concentrate nel breve corso di un biennio davvero straordinario, fra il 1945 e il 1947: diritto di voto alle donne, passaggio dalla monarchia alla repubblica, stesura di una carta costituzionale. Un’accelerazione resa possibile dall’esperienza partigiana che riunì le diverse culture antifasciste. Non fu un regalo degli Alleati.”

https://ilmanifesto.it/nuovo-fascismo-antidoti-attivi

#italia #liberazione #25aprile

Alx 🐈 @[email protected] · 2026-04-25 · 19:09 UTC

“ Eravamo un paese in macerie che avviò la sua ricostruzione democratica con una sequenza di riforme storiche concentrate nel breve corso di un biennio davvero straordinario, fra il 1945 e il 1947: diritto di voto alle donne, passaggio dalla monarchia alla repubblica, stesura di una carta costituzionale. Un’accelerazione resa possibile dall’esperienza partigiana che riunì le diverse culture antifasciste. Non fu un regalo degli Alleati.”