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In Moscow, police and the FSB raided an “alternative” exhibition dedicated to Victory Day

'09.05.2015' Author: Andrey Kuzakov Subscribe to ForumDaily on Google News

In Moscow, police and representatives of Center “E” of the Russian FSB conducted a raid at the art gallery “S-Art” in Moscow, where an “alternative” exhibition “We won” was held, dedicated to Victory Day.

From the exhibition, which opened the day before, the works of artists, participants of the action, as well as computers belonging to the gallery, were displayed. The exhibitors presented their view on the Victory in the Second World War and the St. George ribbon, which became the official attribute of the celebration.

The curator and owner of the S-Art gallery, Peter Voys, said in an interview with Radio Liberty that the exhibition opened yesterday, but was closed to the public. On Friday, according to Voyce, law enforcement officers burst into a closed room without a warrant and may have detained the artist Oleg Basov, who was impossible to contact immediately after the report of the raid. Voyce regarded the event as a “pogrom of the gallery.”

According to the organizers of the exhibition, information about the exhibition caused a flurry of comments and reposts on Facebook, including an appeal to shoot the authors.

The text on the Facebook page reads:

“The country is celebrating the day of the great victory...
Today, the St. George ribbon, the portrait of Stalin, the red banner and the word "fascist" are again being actively replicated and are entering everyday reality.

But it is worth clarifying the situation. St. George's ribbon has a yellow-black color, was awarded for military exploits, and directly during the Second World War was the award ribbon in the Vlasov army, who fought on the side of the Wehrmacht.

As a symbol of victory in the Patriotic War, it was proposed by the RIA-Novosti agency in 2006, and the initiative was supported from above. Now the ribbon is tied to backpacks, dogs, Mercedes, and it has become commonplace - but it’s like handing out general’s shoulder straps or hero’s stars.

When the feat becomes a cult, and replicates, its meaning is emasculated. St. George Ribbon today - marking pro-power-minded fans of the First Channel.

We won! Let's look back.

The statistical error in the calculations of the dead is millions.

The army beheaded on the eve of the war, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on the division of Poland, the shameful one that undermined the authority of the army, the Winter War is only a prelude. The illusion of the limitless human resources of the Union led to horrifying statistics of losses: for every 1 German there were 7 Soviet soldiers.

In the postwar years, 2 / 3. The Soviet Union's GDP was the military-industrial complex. Total poverty and devastation, deformed social sphere, fatherlessness, hiding disabled people, mass repressions against veterans who visited Europe and the post-war apogee of Stalinism ... The list goes on.

The victory was an excuse for the Stalinist terror. Affirmation of a winner blocks the chances for humanization of society and development today.

Cultural trauma and post-traumatic amnesia disfigures identity - and this is expressed in the “brain drain”, mass alcoholism and drug addiction, homelessness, the monstrous life of the elderly and disabled.
We won, and today the result of this discourse is the restoration of totalitarianism with an admixture of Orthodox fundamentalism. Our exhibition does not question the feat of the people, that is, the people who kneaded the mud in the trenches and brought Victory to the limit of their capabilities.

But we question the chimera of the great imperial past, which is being created today as the only indisputable bond of Russian identity.

The Second World War was a monstrous bloodletting of the peoples of Europe. They don’t congratulate you on the day of sorrow.” Today, festive events are taking place all over the world. Vladimir Putin took part in one of them. He with a portrait of his father took part in the action "Immortal Regiment"

Victory Day FSB Exhibition At home

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