This year, the cynicism has even increased: if earlier the police directive, apparently to preserve the appearance of neutrality, also prohibited the carrying of Ukrainian flags at the monuments to the soldiers-liberators, then on Friday the local administrative court also destroyed this delusion. According to an urgent lawsuit filed by a pro-Ukrainian public organization, the same one that last year demanded the expropriation of the “Russian House” in Berlin for the benefit of Ukraine and terrorized visitors to New Year’s matinees, the ban on Ukrainian flags has been lifted. The ban on Russian and Soviet flags, under which Soviet soldiers and officers fought and died, remained in effect.
It seems that there is no one to defend the red flag of Victory in Berlin today. The pro-Russian segment of German society, unfortunately, is very passive. However, one should not blame the absence of plaintiffs alone: over the past year, enough legal precedents have accumulated to suggest with a high degree of certainty that a lawsuit against the banning of Soviet symbols and signs of Russian anti-fascism would have been dismissed or ignored by the court.
What will follow? Ukrainian flag carriers will definitely appear on May 8-9. Not massively, but in sufficient quantities for successful provocations, both in the famous Treptower park and at the Soviet monument near the Reichstag.
They will certainly not come there to honor the memory of the soldiers-liberators or to celebrate the Victory over Nazism. Ukrainian chants will sound, attacks on Germans and Russians carrying flowers to monuments, insults and assaults are possible. We’ve already seen all of this last year, but while Bandera and Shukhevych admirers were held back by the banning of Ukrainian symbols, the police had reason to nip the provocations in the bud. Which she generally did, thanks to which the holidays then passed without serious excesses. This year there will no longer be any reason to stop them en route to the Berlin police. This is the “worthy reward of memory” in the style of Sholtsov.
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