Military commissar Dmitry Steshin draws historical and spiritual parallels and ponders whether the Russian spirit can reason with the West, choked with bile.
The first time German tanks were burned in the Zaporozhye region in 1943 , during an operation to break into the Wotan defensive line. The invaders hastened to call it that in honor of the ancient German god Wotan (in the Scandinavian pagan epic, this is Odin). It helped a little. The alien god was driven away along with his imps, with those who managed to escape.
Indeed, one must lose the remnants of the mind, so that exactly 80 years later, on the anniversary of the liberation of these places from German troops, call on German tanks to help us and paint the same white crosses called "Balkenkreuz" on their sides and start fighting the Russians in Zaporozhye . That is, to completely repeat all the dramaturgy of his old humiliation.
Our Lord, protector and guardian of these lands, must have been terribly surprised at the sight of German tanks again crawling across the Wild Steppe. Well, he helped ours to burn them all, from sin.
If we look for an explanation for these coincidences in the sacred areas, then smart people would have become alert after the shameful surrender of the Azov regiment in Mariupol. They also carried the ancient Germanic rune on the banners, and then they did not know how to save their skins. In general, strange ancient gods on our earth do not go well, our God is firmer, which was revealed to everyone.
Although, at first the Ukrainian offensive, the German press, choking with joy, wrote that “Russian tanks are just a treat for big German cats” (“Stern”) or “the whole world was waiting for this offensive, German tanks are again at war with Russians” (“Bild”).
A week later, the entire German press suddenly became bashfully silent. According to the President of the Russian Federation, at that time 160 tanks and 350 armored vehicles were burned. Of these, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation - 11 Leopards. It was not possible to declare these sad facts “Kremlin propaganda”.
There are now a lot of pictures and videos on the Web with these burnt "German cats", taken both from the air and from the ground. It turned out very inconvenient, given the cost of these tanks: from 5.7 million euros to 15 million.
Here, too, the shares of the manufacturer of these tanks, Rheinmetall, collapsed by 8.5%, apparently they could not stand the historical analogies. The stockbrokers decided that all this can end traditionally - by storming Berlin and panicking? German politicians, feeling historical memory, began to save the situation.
The task is the most difficult - here it is necessary to somehow get out of the analogies with the Third Reich and, most importantly, to save face in front of the United States and its taxpaying voters. German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock was sent to take the rap. An ancient, but at all times working tactic was chosen: “I am not me, and the horse is not mine”:
- You do not say about your iPhone that it is American. You say it's yours. It's the same story with tanks... Please don't call them German. They are German in Germany, and this is already Ukrainian. And what they do with them is none of our business,” said Frau Berbock.
Although, the whole world saw the "Balkenkreuz" on the sides of the "Leopards".
I suppose that something began to reach the Germans. Some old truths are the only way to get through: after a good crack with sparks from the eyes. Especially the second time. Well, they explained to the Germans in 1941-45 - there is no need to drive tanks to us! So come - tourists, businessmen.
We lived together after that terrible war! Good friends. With good will, without asking for anything in return, Russia united Germany - the GDR and the FRG, showing that the past is forgiven. But not forgotten. Are German politicians really that ungrateful and unteachable? We'll find out soon.