Putins mass rally for his one man war, where truth becomes a lie and lies become truth. How ironic that he claims to be anti nationalist and fascist when his actions show his true self. Truth in Russia is no longer a form of communication sanctioned by the state. Putin at first enslaves the truth and information in his occupation and invasion of Ukraine.
As the war in Ukraine continues, Putin addressed tens of thousand of Russians filling Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, to celebrate eight years since the annexation of Crimea, oh boy what a party.
Putin has regularly used the anniversary to highlight love of the motherland.
Officials said more than 200,000 people had gathered at the stadium, although the numbers could not be verified. The stadium’s official capacity is 81,000, but there were also large crowds outside.
Many people at the rally told the BBC they worked in the public sector and had been pressured into attending by their employers.
One man who works in the Moscow metro said he and other employees had been forced to attend the rally.
“We know what we have to do next,” the Russian president told the crowd. “We’ll definitely carry out all the plans we have made.”
But his address on state TV suddenly cut to singer Oleg Gazmanov belting out the words “Forward, Russia”, in what the Kremlin later called a technical glitch.
In Ukraine itself, the plight of the besieged southern port city of Mariupol was the focus of renewed concern.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said 130 survivors had so far been recovered from the basement of a theatre in the city, but hundreds more remained trapped,
Civilians were sheltering underground when the theatre was bombed by Russia on Wednesday.
The city council said that so far, rescue workers had found one severely injured person, but there were no reports of deaths.
Mr Zelensky said Russian shelling prevented the city authorities from establishing effective humanitarian corridors to the besieged city.
Mariupol’s mayor, Vadym Boichenko, confirmed Russian reports that fighting had reached the centre of the city.
“There’s no city centre left. There isn’t a small piece of land in the city that doesn’t have signs of war,” he told the BBC.
Overall, however, military analysts say the Russian invaders have made little progress in the past week.
What happened at the Nuremberg rally?
The Nazi Party Rallies, held annually from 1933 to 1938 at a specially designed site in Nuremberg, were carefully planned propaganda events. Marching contingents, parades, memorial events for the dead, and displays by the armed forces were intended to demonstrate strength and communal spirit.
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