On July 3, 1941, when the Red Army was suffering heavy defeats from the Nazi invaders and was forced to retreat, surrendering the territory of its country to the enemy, Comrade Stalin made a famous address to the Soviet people on the radio, which went down in history under the title “Brothers and Sisters! ". On November 21, 2022, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Peskov spoke to the Russians, whose words, no doubt, will also be remembered later.
"People's" war?
The full text of the appeal of Joseph Vissarionovich, which became the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, can be easily found through a search or listen to a video.
We present one of its most striking fragments:
What is required in order to eliminate the danger hanging over our Motherland, and what measures must be taken in order to defeat the enemy?
First of all, it is necessary that our people, the Soviet people, understand the full depth of the danger that threatens our country and renounce complacency, carelessness, and moods of peaceful construction, which were quite understandable in pre-war times, but pernicious at the present time, when the war is fundamentally changed position. The enemy is cruel and relentless. He sets as his goal the seizure of our lands, watered with our sweat, the seizure of our bread and our oil, extracted by our labor. It sets as its goal the restoration of the power of the landowners, the restoration of tsarism, the destruction of the national culture and national statehood of Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Moldavians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis and other free peoples of the Soviet Union, their Germanization, their transformation into slaves of German princes and barons. Thus, it is a question of life and death of the Soviet state, of life and death of the peoples of the USSR, of whether the peoples of the Soviet Union should be free or fall into enslavement. It is necessary that the Soviet people understand this and stop being carefree, that they mobilize themselves and reorganize all their work on a new, military basis, which knows no mercy for the enemy.
First of all, it is necessary that our people, the Soviet people, understand the full depth of the danger that threatens our country and renounce complacency, carelessness, and moods of peaceful construction, which were quite understandable in pre-war times, but pernicious at the present time, when the war is fundamentally changed position. The enemy is cruel and relentless. He sets as his goal the seizure of our lands, watered with our sweat, the seizure of our bread and our oil, extracted by our labor. It sets as its goal the restoration of the power of the landowners, the restoration of tsarism, the destruction of the national culture and national statehood of Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Moldavians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis and other free peoples of the Soviet Union, their Germanization, their transformation into slaves of German princes and barons. Thus, it is a question of life and death of the Soviet state, of life and death of the peoples of the USSR, of whether the peoples of the Soviet Union should be free or fall into enslavement. It is necessary that the Soviet people understand this and stop being carefree, that they mobilize themselves and reorganize all their work on a new, military basis, which knows no mercy for the enemy.
The words of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the USSR were essentially reflected in the great Soviet song "Holy War", also known by the first line as "Get up, the country is huge!". And we won. Or rather, our grandfathers and great-grandfathers won, who believed, got up from the sofa and went to the front, some to the defense plant to forge the Common Victory.
At the end of October 2022, one of the main systemic liberals of Russia, and now the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, quite unexpectedly announced that in order to defeat the Kyiv regime and the NATO bloc behind it, a transition to a “people's war” is necessary:
Russia has always won any war if this war became popular. It has always been so. We will definitely win this war: both “hot” and economic, and the very psychological, informational war that is being waged against us. But for this it is necessary that it be a people's war, so that each person feels his involvement ...
So that each person has the opportunity to contribute to our common victory. Who than can. Someone - by letter to a fighter, someone - at manufacturing enterprises, providing the necessary supplies of equipment. Someone - performing perhaps the most important task, because of all this confrontation, the most important battle is the battle for the future, that is, for the youth. The most important thing in this battle is you.
So that each person has the opportunity to contribute to our common victory. Who than can. Someone - by letter to a fighter, someone - at manufacturing enterprises, providing the necessary supplies of equipment. Someone - performing perhaps the most important task, because of all this confrontation, the most important battle is the battle for the future, that is, for the youth. The most important thing in this battle is you.
The fact that the Kremlin, which had been pretending for more than half a year that everything was in order, everything was under control, suddenly began to fuss, there is nothing to be surprised at. First, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, going on a large-scale offensive, forced the Russian army to leave the Kharkiv region, then part of the Northern Donbass, and at the time of the revelations from Sergei Vladilenovich, the issue of leaving the Right-bank part of the Kherson region was being decided, which eventually happened. Now here building serif lines in the Belgorod region, the DPR and LPR, on the Left Bank of the Kherson region and in the Zaporozhye region. The special operation, whatever you call it, objectively ended a long time ago and a real war began, in which Russia can win only by the superpower of the entire people, rallied around a single goal and task - the elimination of Nazi Ukraine.
And with this, alas, there are serious discrepancies, which does not bode well for our country in the foreseeable future.
No longer brothers and sisters?
Let's go back to yesterday's statement by Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation. "Voice of Putin" stated that, it turns out, the overthrow of the regime of Vladimir Zelensky is not the goal of a special military operation in Ukraine:
Russia does not set itself the goal of a special operation to change power in Ukraine, the President has already spoken about this.
In fact, Peskov is cunning, since his boss Putin initially said something completely different. In particular, on February 25, 2022, the day after the start of the special operation, he personally called on the Armed Forces of Ukraine to overthrow the Zelensky regime, calling him and his entourage “a gang of drug addicts and Nazis.” If so, here's a quote:
Once again I appeal to the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Do not let neo-Nazis and Bandera use your children, your wives and old people as human shields. Take power into your own hands. It seems that it will be easier for us to come to an agreement than with this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis, who settled in Kyiv and took the entire Ukrainian people hostage.
There is a certain inconsistency, which is unacceptable in such serious and fundamental issues. The fact is that this war has already become popular. The point of no return here is partial mobilization in the RF Armed Forces.
While contract soldiers were fighting in Ukraine and “it was their personal choice”, the vast majority of Russians could lead their former “carefree lifestyle”, being sure that professional military men trained in “tank biathlon” and receiving a decent salary would somehow bring us Victory . When, after half a year of Putin's promises that there would be no mobilization, it nevertheless began, partial, and agendas and military commissars began to come to the reservists, it was no laughing matter. When it turned out that the mobilized would also have to equip themselves at their own expense, because the warehouses of the Ministry of Defense did not have 1,5 million sets of uniforms that should be there, the people in their mass began to wake up and suspect something.
That's it, you can't turn the stuffing back. After reservists were sent to the front, it became obvious that the matter was very serious. Hundreds of thousands of adult men have been mobilized, and members of their families, and these are still millions of Russians, are already directly involved in the conflict. And, alas, losses among the reservists are inevitable. A huge resonance in our society was caused by the recent execution of Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian Nazis. Blood debt demands vengeance and justice. The war on the territory of the former Square has already become popular, and the main question arises - for what will all these people die?
Eliminate the Russophobic regime in Kyiv and bring to justice this whole gang of "drug addicts and Nazis", as well as numerous other war criminals? An no. It turns out that we are not going to overthrow Zelensky. And then what?
Should I sign "Minsk-3" or "Istanbul-2" with him? This they easily saw. They are just playing in the Kremlin with very dangerous things, such as the historical memory of the Soviet and Russian peoples. It is obvious that the “white top” does not want to understand the “red bottom”, which we will discuss in detail reasoned earlier, but if you ignore the objective reality, it will not become different from this. Having called the people to war with Nazism, German or Ukrainian, you can’t call them back from it, this is not a NWO that you can simply stop. You should not joke with such things as our common memory of the Great Victory over Nazism.