{"id":22386,"date":"2022-05-11T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=22386"},"modified":"2022-05-11T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:04:01","slug":"zelenskyy-to-putin-dont-you-dare-use-wwii-to-justify-the-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/05\/11\/zelenskyy-to-putin-dont-you-dare-use-wwii-to-justify-the-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy To Putin: Don&#8217;t You Dare Use WWII to Justify the War In Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In remarks commemorating the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, the Ukraine president promised victory over \u201cmad man\u201d Putin, who is \u201crepeating the horrific crimes of Hitler&#8217;s regime today.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/contributor\/eric-lutz\">ERIC LUTZ<\/a> MAY 9, 2022 (vanityfair.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/62793ca301d1c9f54dd5eae6\/master\/w_2560%2Cc_limit\/1240188286\" alt=\"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives for a press conference in April. nbsp\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong>, Ukraine\u2019s Jewish president once again undercut&nbsp;<strong>Vladimir Putin&#8217;s<\/strong>&nbsp;attempt to rewrite history and justify his war as an effort to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/02\/putin-stands-alone-as-world-moves-to-isolate-him-ukraine\">\u201cdeNazify\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;Ukraine. Speaking in a video address Monday, delivered while walking the fortified streets of Kyiv, Zelenskyy described the Russian president a \u201cmad man\u201d who was \u201crepeating the horrific crimes of Hitler\u2019s regime today,\u201d in a video address Monday, delivered while walking the fortified streets of Kyiv. \u201cOn the Day of Victory over Nazism, we are fighting for a new victory,\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cThe road to it is difficult, but we have no doubt that we will win.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=VanityFair&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1523551026317570048&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanityfair.com%2Fnews%2F2022%2F05%2Fzelenskyy-putin-victory-day-ukraine&amp;sessionId=90b408eda6f3a8cb29a6a3056f35f3fb0eee6e8b&amp;siteScreenName=VanityFair&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=c8fe9736dd6fb%3A1649830956492&amp;width=550px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MFA_Ukraine\/status\/1523551026317570048\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MFA_Ukraine\/status\/1523551026317570048<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe is doomed,\u201d Zelenskyy continued, referring to Putin, \u201cbecause he was cursed by millions of ancestors when he began to imitate their killer. And therefore, he will lose everything. And very soon, there will be two Victory Days in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarks came shortly before Putin\u2019s own speech, and undermined the propaganda the Russian dictator has used as the pretext for the onslaught, which observers worry he could soon intensify. \u201cThis has not gone well,\u201d as&nbsp;<strong>Kurt Volker<\/strong>, former United States ambassador representative for Ukraine negotiations and a fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/putin-planned-russias-victory-day-rcna27462\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a>&nbsp;NBC News ahead of the holiday commemorating the defeat of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. \u201cSo he\u2019s looking to try to put some kind of gloss on it and say, you know, this is justified and it\u2019s working.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putin didn\u2019t announce an escalation of the war on Monday, but he did once again attempt to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/05\/09\/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rationalize it<\/a>&nbsp;as \u201cnecessary, timely, and the only right solution.\u201d \u201cDanger was increasing every day,\u201d Putin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/09\/europe\/russia-victory-day-ukraine-snap-analysis-intl\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claimed<\/a>&nbsp;in his speech. \u201cRussia repelled this aggression in a preventative way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Victory Day has proved a big stage for smaller scale rebellions against disinformation and the war more broadly: In Russia, there were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/05\/09\/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates\/#link-B7UY7OTZ25GPDGU2GQSO35N3HM\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">antiwar protests<\/a>&nbsp;that resulted in at least three arrests, as well as the apparent hack of Russian television platforms to broadcast antiwar messages. \u201cThe blood of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of murdered children is on your hands,\u201d a message&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/05\/09\/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a>&nbsp;read. \u201cTV and the authorities are lying. No to war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, at a Victory in Europe Day gathering in Poland, which has taken in large numbers of Ukrainian refugees, protesters showered Russian ambassador&nbsp;<strong>Sergey Andreev<\/strong>&nbsp;in red paint as they blocked him from laying down flowers at a Soviet cemetery in Warsaw. Polish Foreign Minister&nbsp;<strong>Zbigniew Rau<\/strong>&nbsp;called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/09\/russian-ambassador-to-poland-sergey-andreev-pelted-with-red-paint-at-ve-day-gathering\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the incident<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cregrettable,\u201d but the country\u2019s interior minister,&nbsp;<strong>Mariusz Kaminski<\/strong>, wrote that the protest against \u201cgenocide\u201d was \u201clegal\u201d and \u201cunderstandable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As officials in the U.S. and the West braced for a further escalation from Putin, First Lady&nbsp;<strong>Jill Biden<\/strong>&nbsp;made an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/08\/1097460153\/ukraine-jill-biden-visit-mothers-day\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unannounced visit<\/a>&nbsp;to the southwest of Ukraine, to meet with her Ukrainian counterpart,&nbsp;<strong>Olena Zelenska<\/strong>, who has been in hiding and has not been seen in public since the invasion began in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe thought it was important to show the Ukrainian people that this war has to stop, and this war has been brutal,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd the people of the U.S. stand with the people of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe feel it,\u201d Zelenska said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In remarks commemorating the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, the Ukraine president promised victory over \u201cmad man\u201d Putin, who is \u201crepeating the horrific crimes of Hitler&#8217;s regime today.\u201d BY\u00a0ERIC LUTZ MAY 9, 2022 (vanityfair.com) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine\u2019s Jewish president once again undercut&nbsp;Vladimir Putin&#8217;s&nbsp;attempt to rewrite history and&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/05\/11\/zelenskyy-to-putin-dont-you-dare-use-wwii-to-justify-the-war-in-ukraine\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22387,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22386\/revisions\/22387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}