Ganwear St. George 9 May WW2 Russian Victory Day - Simple Ribbon with pin

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For The Second class one should win a Campaign. The first recipient was Lieutenant-General Plemyannikov for the Battle of Kagul, the last of 124 or 125, depending on sources, was either Nikolai Yudenich or Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch. The St. George ribbon has become a symbol of resistance, a uniting symbol of people who are fighting for their rights against neofascist and Russophobic regimes. The hate demonstrated against the St. George ribbon in Kyiv and Riga is really a demonstration of the ribbon’s power” declares the Argumenty and Fakty newspaper.

Rewriting history”, “substitution of values”, “worship of Nazi ideology” – these are the epithets that pro-Kremlin media already use to describe any event that does not fit into the ideology of the “Russian world”. In principle, The Kremlin propaganda machine considers any Ukrainian or resident of another country who speaks the state language and believes that “the reunification of Crimea with Russia” and “the civil war in Donbass” are in fact the Russian occupation of Ukrainian territories and Russian aggression, a “Nazi”. In fact, it is the Kremlin that exploits history to advance the Russian political narrative for the sole purpose of its own military expansion. Novaya Gazeta columnist Yulia Latynina and other journalists have speculated the Russian government introduced the ribbon as a public-relations response to the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine in which demonstrators had adopted orange ribbons as their symbol. [12] [14] Local residents in Russian-occupied Donetsk carry portraits of their ancestors and participants in World War II alongside a ribbon of St George, 9 May 2015 Frants Klintsevich, a senior lawmaker and prominent foreign-policy voice in Russia's upper chamber of parliament, accused Ukraine of declaring "all the veterans of the Great Patriotic War its enemies." At the same time, the ribbon’s inventor says that the “project is apolitical and is directed towards historical memory. ...If a local action has become a popular tradition it would be desirable that its initial purposeis not lost - experiencing personal family history in the context of WWII” (in Russian). In the end, even the Pope put the ribbon on himself once, although as the Vatican later explained, Francis did not know what it was (in Russian). The move comes as the Kremlin looks to quell dissent and control the narrative during its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.Since 2014, the ribbon has been a symbol of Russian aggressive imperialism and the "Russian World". That is why Russian propagandists try to promote this symbol under plausible reasons in a number of countries, including Belarus and other post-Soviet countries. By the way, the Belarusian authorities understand this: they refused to use the ribbon and instead "in response" created a boutonniere with an apple blossom. Today St. George's Ribbon is, among other things, a symbol of supporters of the Russian war in Ukraine. Yaffa, Joshua (2014-05-08). "Vladimir Putin's Victory Day in Crimea". The New Yorker . Retrieved 2014-05-09. What exactly are the objectionable values that this symbol represents? Courage? The fight against Nazism? Love for your fellow man? I consider it a betrayal of memory and a distortion of history to appease political goals” writes Lenta.ru. Hate has its own laws. The St. George ribbon has joined the detailed list of Soviet and Nazi symbols banned at public rallies. The saddest thing is that this ribbon does not belong to these symbols” writes Russky Mir.

Two dead women and two wounded men were recovered from the rubble. A man and his 7-year-old stepdaughter were also injured in their car. The girl later died in the hospital," the Prosecutor-General's Office said on social media.

We will not give up defending and protecting the truth about the war, about the thousands of Soviet soldiers who saved Latvia and the whole world,” Baltnews quotes says Olga Amelchenkova, deputy of the Russian State Duma. In December 2022, president Vladimir Putin signed a law making desecration of the ribbon a criminal offense, with the law designating the ribbon as an official symbol of military glory that can only be used in events "dedicated to notable dates in Russia" or "aimed at patriotic and morally-spiritual education of Russian citizens". [21] Ukraine [ edit ] Official state PR campaigns contribute to the heightened awareness of the importance of the event in history. Still, it would be misleading to attribute that purely to the hegemonic influence of the state. As argued by historian Olga Kucherenko, some fundamental components "such as enormous sacrifices, unparalleled violence directed against civilians, the magnitude of the task faced by the defending nation and its tenacity in the face of great hardship remain undeniable."