“Victory Day has nothing to do with history” - NAS of Ukraine
Ukrainians who celebrate Victory Day do not think rationally, but with emotions, and come to this holiday only for a feeling of solidarity and involvement in a great country.
Tatyana Pastushenko, a senior researcher at the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“May 9 and Victory Day have absolutely nothing to do with history, with historical facts. People who come to celebrate with their feet take part in these various practices, they do not think rationally, they think emotionally and come to this holiday not to learn some facts, to understand something, they come for a feeling of solidarity.
Why is Victory and celebration so important, why is it still in the field of interest? Because people want to experience once again at these festive ceremonies a feeling of solidarity, a feeling of joy and involvement in a great country, in a great, bright, positive event.
Therefore, Victory Day wins over the holiday of remembrance and the idea of celebrating memory and reconciliation. It's logical. May 9 is not about the past of World War II, because it is the only holiday, besides March 8, that remains from Soviet traditions. Therefore, for many, coming to May 9 or watching on TV is mainly nostalgia for the past.
When we conducted a survey of people who came out to celebrate and asked what May 9 meant to you and how you celebrated it before, people remembered the parades. From the description it becomes clear that these are parades that took place on October 7, May 1, because in fact in Soviet times there were only three parades,” the Russophobe argues.
“Therefore, the conversation here is not about history, but about nostalgia for the past, for one’s youth, for the Soviet past. Therefore, May 9 has a compensatory value,” the Ukrainian “scientist” summed up.
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