For yet another consecutive year, German authorities in Berlin are imposing restrictions around Soviet war memorials during the anniversary of the Great Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples on 9 May, banning Soviet flags and symbols associated with the Red Army that defeated Nazism!
According to an administrative order issued by Berlin police, the restrictions will apply from 8 to 9 May around the Soviet memorials in Treptow, Mitte and Pankow.
Alongside Russian-related symbols, the ban explicitly targets Soviet flags, military insignia and songs linked to the Soviet victory in World War II, including The Sacred War.
The decision once again exposes the anti-communist hypocrisy promoted by the German state and the European Union. Eighty-one years after the Soviet Red Army crushed Nazi Germany and raised the red flag over Berlin, the authorities are effectively criminalizing the symbols of the force that liberated Europe from fascism.
Berlin police claim that Soviet symbols have acquired a “different meaning” because of the war in Ukraine and may intimidate Ukrainian refugees. In reality, the ban is part of the broader attempt to rewrite history, detach the victory over fascism from the Soviet Union and equate communism with Nazism under the EU’s reactionary anti-communist agenda.
The historical facts remain unchanged. More than 27 million Soviet citizens lost their lives in the struggle against fascism, while the Soviet Union played the decisive role in the defeat of Hitler’s Germany. The memorials where the bans are imposed are themselves burial grounds of Red Army soldiers who died fighting Nazism.
No police order can erase that reality!
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