Terry
The celebrations of May 6, in London, and the commemoration of May 9, in Moscow, reflect the differences between two worlds with totally opposite values.
The monarchy show
in the United Kingdom
On May 6th they showed us from England the coronation of the greatest of all kings. The British press first guaranteed us that this monarch has absolutely no political rights, that he only has a function of representation.
Really? By what right, then, while still Prince of Wales, during the reign of his mother, did he alter the agenda of the House of Commons a hundred times, and, moreover, have excluded from that legislative body those subjects who did not did you like them? Experts assure us that his interventions were limited to minor bills. But by what right could the prince decide, instead of the deputies, that they were of no greater importance?
As Prince of Wales, the now King Charles III became the protector of the Muslim Brotherhood, a secret political organization created by MI6 during the colonization of Egypt and today banned in many Muslim countries due to its notoriously pro-British terrorist activity.
In 1993, the then-Prince of Wales became a patron of the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies, from where the Muslim Brotherhood and MI6 operated across the Middle East, in the tradition of Lawrence of Arabia. Prince Charles put so much effort into it that connoisseurs began calling the British capital “in Londonistan», due to the large number of leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood who resided there –among them was a Saudi named Osama bin Laden. Prince Charles even traveled 120 times to the Gulf region to meet there with monarchs who supported the Muslim Brotherhood.
A world coming to an end
Under the name of Charles III, the Prince of Wales has just become monarch of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the United Kingdom, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as well as the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. Military detachments from those kingdoms escorted him during the celebration.
A hundred heads of state and government traveled to London to participate in the coronation or sent representatives to the ceremony. But the official images of the BBC did not show these personalities, considered simple guests.
Of course, North Koreans, Syrians, and Russians were not welcome. The Chinese were invited… and they caused a stir by sending Vice President Han Zheng, presented in the United Kingdom as the person responsible for the repression against the pro-British protesters in Hong Kong.
Otherwise, the coronation ceremony has not changed since the decolonization of the British Empire. Apparently only some precious stones stolen from India have been removed from the royal jewels.
Of course, it would be stupid to evaluate a traditional ceremony by the criteria of our time. But it is interesting to see that the British continue to see certain symbols of ancient times as if they were still relevant… in the 21st century. For example, a sumptuous embroidered paravan was unfurled around the king at the time of his anointing with the consecrated oil brought from Jerusalem, to prevent the divine glare from blinding those present. Was someone really afraid of losing their sight? At the end of the coronation, King Carlos III was proclaimed «God’s Lieutenant on Earth». How could the ministers of the numerous religions represented at the ceremony lend themselves to such a masquerade?
More than celebrations for the enthronement of a new king, what happened in London seems above all a funeral tribute to a world, the burial of the domination that the West came to exercise over a part of Humanity.
the homeland party
On May 9, Russia celebrates the victory of the peoples of the USSR over Nazism. The Soviet population suffered as much as Poland’s during World War II. In that conflict, 27 million Soviets died – more than half were members of the Red Army. One of every 7 Soviets died in that war. This proportion is very different in other latitudes (one German out of 10, one Frenchman out of 83… one American out of 655).
The USSR united in front of the enemy. The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin, freed the prisoners of the civil war – the gulags were full of dissident communists -, ended religious persecution and established an alliance with the Orthodox Church. That tragic period, which the Soviet peoples called «the great homeland war» It was also a sacred time of reconciliation and national unity.
The commemorations of May 9 are, therefore, the occasion to recall the horrors of war and above all the ability of peoples to fight and save themselves together, helping each other. At the current juncture, the Russians are aware that the fundamentalist nationalists they are fighting against in the Ukraine are the heirs of those who joined the Nazis to exterminate the Jews, the Gypsies and the Slavs (the ideology in force in Kiev states that the Ukrainians are not Slavs but descendants of a Viking tribe – the Varangians – who mixed with the Slavs).
The Immortal Regiment
Traditionally, since 1965, Russians have paraded on May 9, Victory Day, in homage to their grandparents and great-grandparents who fell in the fight against Nazism. Since 2012, such a parade has become widespread in the Russian Federation. The Russians call itthe Immortal Regiment». Today, in addition to paying homage to the heroes of the Homeland, the participants parade as successors of the fallen and followers of their example in the defense of the Nation. They are not chauvinists imbued with an exacerbated nationalism but patriots willing to sacrifice themselves for their country.
Due to the latest attacks on Russian soil, many of those parades were suspended this year. President Vladimir Putin will be present at the traditional military parade on Red Square. In the West, President Putin is described as a dictator who lives surrounded by luxury, far from the people. But his fellow citizens know that this is false. Vladimir Putin is of Russian culture and, like the vast majority of his compatriots, he knows that luxury should not make him forget his human condition.
from different worlds
The subjects of Carlos III are fascinated by the magnificence of the Crown. President Putin’s fellow citizens believe that wearing stolen jewels and precious stones is not exactly a show of nobility. For them, only what is earned with their own effort has value.
