"He is probably going to declare on this May Day that 'we are now at war with the world's Nazis and we need to mass mobilize the Russian people,'" Wallace added. Indeed, Putin has tried to stir patriotism by presenting the Ukraine war as necessary and anti-Nazi in an effort to evoke the existential conflict that Russians call the Great Patriotic War. the people and the state) under Putin," Simon Miles, a Russia expert and professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University, told Insider," adding, "WWII is tantamount to a state religion there." "That muscular, martial image of Russia is one Putin loves but it's also a unifying myth for Russia and Russians (i.e.
Russia marks the occasion with a military parade in Moscow, and Putin - who has a penchant for symbolic, Soviet-style events - delivers a speech. May 9 is traditionally when Russia celebrates "Victory Day," commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, having repelled them from Russian lands at a cost measured in tens of millions of lives. Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to use May 9 to spread propaganda to Russians about the Ukraine war, and could use it as a means of formally ramping up the conflict, experts and officials say.
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