Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. Although the official inauguration occurred in 1945, the holiday became a non-labor day only in 1965, and only in certain Soviet republics.
The German Instrument of Surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by Alfred Jodl (chief of staff of the German OKW) for Germany, Walter Bedell Smith, on behalf of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, and Ivan Susloparov, on behalf of the Soviet High Command, in the presence of French Major-General François Sevez as the official witness.
Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, and because Susloparov, a relatively low-ranking officer, was not authorized to sign this document, the Soviet Union requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin.
A second surrender ceremony was organized in a surviving manor in the outskirts of Berlin late on 8 May, when it was already 9 May in Moscow due to the difference in time zones.
During the Soviet Union’s existence, 9 May was celebrated throughout it and in the Eastern Bloc. Though the holiday was introduced in many Soviet republics between 1946 and 1950, it became a non-working day only in the Ukrainian SSR in 1963 and the Russian SFSR in 1965
The celebration of Victory Day continued during subsequent years. The war became a topic of great importance in cinema, literature, history lessons at school, the mass media, and the arts. The ritual of the celebration gradually obtained a distinctive character with a number of similar elements: ceremonial meetings, speeches, lectures, receptions and fireworks.
Victory Day in modern Russia has become a celebration in which popular culture plays a central role. The 60th and 70th anniversaries of Victory Day in Russia (2005 and 2015) became the largest popular holidays since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Yes we really do believe this shit lmao. But, like Frank said, theres no orthodoxy to enforce specific beliefs among the branches of Neo-Paganism, so can you have wildly different sets of individual beliefs among people who are nominally of the same faith. You’ll have a guy who literally believes Oðinn is an old one-eyed man living in the sky dictating who wins and loses battles, along with a guy who thinks Oðinn is a representation/personification of human consciousness, and both are equally Heathen.
People believe weird shit, Paganism is not really that odd compared to everything else.
Yeah, people think of Christianity as unified faiths with clear orthodoxy, but go actually sit down with Catholic lay people and ask them about various points of faith and you will hear absolutely wild stuff. While there is an official orthodoxy and dogma that governs the actions of priests and more educated lay members there’s an enormous about of variation in the beliefs and knowledge of individual catholids. I recently met a guy who did the whole catholic 60s thing - church every sunday, abusive sunday school nuns, and somehow never in hius long life had he heard “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to go to heaven”
It is a major point of official Catholic doctrine that the sacrament is literally actually cannibalism.
And i love them for that.
Just a cute little cannibal death cult