Nobody cares about your soviet nationalism.
Claiming that the Soviets were the main contributors to the defeat of Germany is not Soviet nationalism, it is the simple historical truth. Neither is honoring the country that suffered 27 million casualties nationalism.
Nor should we forget the 45 years of Soviet occupation of much of Europe that followed. The true liberation came only in 1990-91.
And, before you start, I still have WWII veterans who were in the Soviet Army that I can visit and talk to (my grandfather is gone, but some of his cousins and friends are still alive - though, obviously, not many). I recently took my daughter with me on a visit to one of them - a dear old family friend, who was a sniper in the war. But what she wanted to talk about where the years of humiliation with which the Soviets repaid her generation. It was a good history lesson, trust me.
Let us not start the победобесие here. The victory was stolen from those who sacrificed for it back in 1945 - and it is being stolen by the new marauders today. And THAT is something we should never forget.
No one is forgetting the 45 years of Soviet domination, but in the Western countries they have certainly forgotten the Soviet contribution in WWII. And I understand your sentiment, but a more realistic reading of the history of the war doesn't need to include the demonization of one side up to making an equivalence between them and their enemies. Which frankly is is more of a problem outside Russia (and would be likely so inside Russia as well, if your preferred politicians were to rule the country.
победобесие ? Google does not translate.
that is a recent neologism Used to describe what the Russian government has done to the victory celebration. Victordevilry could be a rough (though very imperfect) translation. A southern Slav should get it from general linguistic considerations.
My first idea was actually victory madness. But the meaning is pretty similar and it has just as little relevance to the real world as Victordevilrty has.
By the way, as we are remembering history, let us remember that there were two periods of WWII when the Soviet Union and Bulgaria were on the same side. One was, of course, starting September 1944 (though, that hardly can be called voluntary). The other period was between March and June 1941, when both were on the opposite side of the conflict.
It would take some very severe distortions of the word "sides" to claim that Bulgaria and the USSR were on the same side between March and June 1941. Bulgaria at this point was a satellite to Germany (clearly against Soviet wishes), which was already deep in preparation for the attack of what had been at best a co-belligerent two years earlier. You could at best speak about cold peace. As for the second period, it certainly wasn't voluntary, but then it's questionable how voluntary the alliance with Germany was, considering that it was signed more or less under the pressure of a threatened invasion.
If you had limited yourself to this, I would completely agree with you. But you completely undid you own point by including the next song...
And now, let us all sing along as Comrade Jurva delights everyone with his performance of his other delightful song Uraliin. Just to remind us all that when Finland stood up to the Soviets not one country did anything but express support
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKKu1UaoTro
Yes, we certainly need to be reminded of the Greater Finnish nationalism that led to the Finnish troops go beyond recovering the territories lost in the Winter War and into occupying territories that had never belonged to Finland, committing significant war crimes against their inhabitants and helping the Germans (if half-heartedly) in the destruction of Leningrad. The video which presents the same slogan as the one utilized by the Nazis (Chase the Russians beyound the Urals!) was certainly helpful, so thanks for submitting it!