Putin has the Reichstag recovered for commemorative celebrations

For the 80th anniversary of the end of the war

Putin has the Reichstag recreated – and storms

There is a replica of the German Reichstag in Moscow. He is part of Putin’s propaganda show on the anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

Russia has already started celebrations on the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and has its propaganda machine run in full swing. State and government heads from all over the world are invited, the Chinese President Xi Jinping has already arrived. Putin wants to show strength, and that’s why the historical moment when the Soviet flag was first raised is celebrated in a monumental reconstruction.

For this, the Russian state -loyal filmmaker Igor Ugolnikov had the Reichstag in the Moscow Kinopark. There the historical events are then re -enacted as they fit into the Russian narrative. “Sieg! The flag above the Reichstag” is the name of the event, which can still be visited until May 11th, as the state Russian news agency TASS reports.

The semi -destroyed facade of the Reichstag has been recreated in its original size. “This will help create a realistic atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself in fully,” says the director. It is shown on screens what the Russian filmmaker sees as “historically correct”. Historical recordings and digital reenacts are projected onto the Reichstagskulises. A tank is shown to the audience as a digital projection that drove from Belarus to Berlin. Other military equipment such as MIG-3 fighting jets and a troop vehicle from the German manufacturer “Hanomag” can also be seen.

According to the Ukrainian news portal Euromaidan, it is not mentioned that it was a Ukrainian, the soldier Oleksiy Berest, who cited the conquest of the Reichstag. But the propaganda show is not just a historical review. It should show Russia’s strength in the past and today.

The fact that Putin agreed for the celebrations for a three -day break in the war against Ukraine is just as part of the Russian propaganda as the still claimed reason that the attack on Ukraine is part of a denazification campaign as against Germany after the Second World War.

While many of the former war participants take the anniversary to fight for peace in the world, Russia remains in war mode. The chairman of the Russian security council, Dmitri Medvedev, threatened that Ukraine “will not experience May 10” if there were attacks on Moscow.

It is not excluded from the Russian perspective that scenes can take place again as in May 1945. Medvedev even threatened to attack Berlin with rockets two years ago if Wladimir Putin was arrested in Germany. This was preceded by an international arrest warrant from the Criminal Court in the Hague against the Russian ruler.

In August last year, Medvedev threatened to bring Russian tanks back to the “Platz of the Republic” because German military equipment is said to have been used by Ukraine when attacking the Russian region of Kursk.

The Russian celebrations can therefore also be seen in the context of the war against Ukraine. Putin is obviously not about learning from the history of a war with millions of dead, but to demonstrate that she could repeat itself at any time. For example, the elderly Cultural State Secretary Claudia Roth had warned that “this year for the celebrations for 80 years of the war, which will be celebrated in Moscow on May 9, an unbearable propaganda fireworks of the Kremlin can be expected”. The Kremlin will try to “justify the criminal war of attack against Ukraine in a historical way”.