Today is May 9. My friend had a walk around Moscow and noticed an interesting pattern. Shop, restaurant, pub owners in Moscow all cover their property with posters and St George ribbons demonstrating their adherence to the state cult of the Great Victory
You know who doesn't?
Halal restaurants. Here you see three Chayhanas run be Central Asian immigrants and predominantly for other Gastarbeiters. They have no May 9 symbolics at all. The fourth is the restaurant of Vaynakh (=Chechen & Ingush) cuisine. It doesn't have any Victory symbolics either
That was all taken by a single person during his walk over Moscow. And it's very telling. It suggests that the Great Victory cult and Russian imperial ideology in general didn't put their roots down the minority populations that seriously
Heavy participation of minorities in Z-war is well-known. And yet, in Ukraine they're fighting for the alien ideology which they don't share. They're following the orders of Moscow. Therefore, stripping Moscow of any ability to give them orders is vital for the future peace
This photo shows a degree of military hysteria imposed by the Russian gov. They literally put a military field kitchen under the USSR flag and feeding passerbys with "soldier rations". Government enforces such exaltation and businesses comply. Except for the ethnic businesses
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