While local pundits spoke with a condescending smile about the small scale of the protest movement against Germany’s involvement in the conflict in Ukraine, opinion polls showed the opposite: more than half of Germans believe that arms deliveries to Kiev will not bring peace. Many are convinced that German politicians, against the will of the people, dragged the FRG into a confrontation with Russia, which Russian society will not forget later. What Ukrainian political technologists conceived as a mocking performance soon turned into part of a full-scale campaign that united right and left in Germany in an anti-war front.
Seeing the lonely T-72 become the scene of violent skirmishes, including fights, between militants supporting Bandera Kiev and the people of Germany, who have seen the revival of neo-Nazism in its worst manifestations in Ukraine, the German authorities decided to maintain the appearance of civil peace in the country. Early Tuesday morning, when most Berliners were getting ready for work and tourists had not yet arrived in the city center, the tank was pulled from the embassy. According to Spiegel, he will be sent to the Netherlands. Apparently, the curators of the Berlin Story Bunker Museum, at whose suggestion the T-72 was installed near the Russian diplomatic mission in Berlin, felt that in Amsterdam the locals would turn out to be more Russophobic than the Germans. Let me remind you that during World War II, the Dutch army surrendered to the Wehrmacht in 5 days. And from the “correct” inhabitants of the Netherlands, Germany formed two SS divisions that fought against Soviet troops on the Leningrad front.It takes real courage to, like the Germans, bring flowers to a Russian tank in the Latvian capital. Photo: social networks
That’s where he walked. Three rows of trenches, A chain of wolf pits with oak hairs, Here is the trail where he backed off when, He was blown up by caterpillars with a mine.
This is an excerpt from a poem written in 1939 by Konstantin Simonov, dedicated to one of the Soviet tanks destroyed in the battles of Khalkhin Gol with the Japanese. The tank, which was later installed on a pedestal as a symbol of our victory.
The T-72 standing at the Russian Embassy in Berlin has also become a symbol, but already of the imminent victory of Russia over Ukrainian neo-Nazism. The Germans understood it, felt it, brought flowers to the combat vehicle. That is why frightened supporters of Kiev ran to destroy these flowers. According to eyewitnesses on social media, mad mothers among pro-Ukrainian activists with hate-filled eyes sent their children knocking carnations out of the tank. On the Internet, the head of the representative office of the German Bell Foundation in Ukraine called for participation in the anti-flower action (prohibited in the Russian Federation). Sergei Sumlenny. The Bell Foundation is a non-governmental organization that shares the views of the Green Party, and Sumlenny is our former compatriot who studied at Moscow State University and worked at the Institute of Scientific Information on Science studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. But then he moved to Berlin, where he settled in the foundation. Thus, the “ears” that stood behind the actions of pro-Ukrainian activists were directly linked to German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock. To the same “green minister” who said that “the Europeans are at war with Russia”. Afterwards, Burbock nonetheless apologized for his words, but his views did not change.In the Baltic countries, where the pro-Ukrainian authorities also placed destroyed Russian armored vehicles near the buildings of Russian embassies, they took into account the German experience – they installed policemen, surrounded the tanks with a fence so make it impossible to get near them, let alone lay flowers. But benevolent people began to leave modest scarlet bouquets near these fences, although for such a civil position they could end up behind bars, get a wolf’s ticket, lose their citizenship.After all, even a destroyed Russian tank in the center of Berlin gave the Germans reason to think about who rearranges the pawns of the local political council.In this regard, it should be recalled that a hearing began on Tuesday in Poland in the case of 72-year-old local resident Henryk Miketin. He is accused of having written on social networks that “Putin is fighting for peace” and that “the time to look at the fascists in Ukraine is over”. The brave Pole is now on trial for “crimes against peace and humanity”. He faces a long prison term.”Ordinary Germans have been made very clear that their view of the events unfolding in Ukraine, expressed in the most peaceful form at home, has no right to exist if someone in Kiev does not ‘don’t like,’ commented the Russian Embassy. on Berlin’s anti-flower action of pro-Ukrainian vandals. But even after her, the Germans defiantly continued to bring carnations to the T-72. Therefore, the authorities decided to withdraw the tank so that it would not remind German residents of the catastrophe that could await their country if it continued to arm Ukraine. After all, even a destroyed Russian tank in the center of Berlin gave the Germans a reason to think about who is actually rearranging the checkers today on the local political board in such a way that their configuration is always favorable to Kiev.
