Life in Russia

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉

A modern version of the iconic Katyusha has been released in anticipation of the May 9th Victory Day celebrations — a nostalgic and patriotic rendition for the 2026 season. The imperial West cancels its history. Russia reimagines it.

https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/2051398657610801228

Beautifully done. (Here’s the original below, REALLY beautifully performed)

Katyusha - Valeria Kurnushkina & Red Army Orchestra

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ancB0j3BD1o

Nearly 6 million views, and you can understand why. Must watch! (And also see the reactions in the audience )

[Ravenlocke]

Дepлorabлe Russian🔹

Epic. Mama Russia.
🇷🇺

https://x.com/TeaTramRussia/status/2052512784458391852

Советский, злой, твой

Translated from Russian
Hero City Leningrad is ready for the May 9th celebration!

https://x.com/ussrlife/status/2052696699622064639

[Ravenlocke]

🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 reposted

Hüseyin Dogru

Today’s Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, we remember one of the most famous moments from newly liberated Berlin.

The video shows Lydia Spivak, a young Red Army woman, dancing and directing traffic in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

https://x.com/hussedogru/status/2052694613480116347

[Ravenlocke]

Daniel Mayakovski

May 7
Translated from Spanish
This grandmother, named Nina Lobkovskaya, at just 20 years old was a lieutenant in the Red Army, commanded a regiment of Soviet snipers in Berlin, executing at least 89 Nazis.

"Nazi barbarism caused me so much pain that it suffocated me. In the Red Army I was able to fight it."


https://x.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2052338116342460689

[Ravenlocke]

🇷🇺 WARGONZO -ULYANA STRIZH 🇷🇺

May 5
✈️ Why everyone should definitely watch the new film "Litvyak"

There are films that you can just watch. And there are those that everyone must see. And "Litvyak" is one of the latter. I grew up on Soviet war films. My father Viktor Turov, who saw the war with his own eyes, also shot many of them. For me, as for many others, one of the best films about the Great Patriotic War will forever remain the picture "In the Fog".

This film by Leonid Bykov, who also lived through the terrible years of the war, is traditionally rewatched by my family on May 9th every year. And now, decades later, a film has come out that stands on a par with this classic. This film is now in Russian cinemas. It tells the story of Lydia Litvyak - a legendary female pilot, a Hero of the Soviet Union, whose name is inscribed in the history of the country.

Lieutenant Lydia Litvyak died at the age of just under 22. But in her short life, this fragile girl became the most successful female fighter of the Second World War. She became a true legend. "White Lily", as the Germans called her, and this flower adorned the fuselage of her Yak. She shot down Luftwaffe aces and was a true example of courage.

In the era of big premieres, we are used to high-budget quality cinema. But the creators of "Litvyak", led by director Andrey Shalopa, took a different path. You probably know his team from another well-known project about the Great Patriotic War that came out not so long ago - "28 Panfilovites". That's the name of their studio, which gave us a new masterpiece.

Both films were made through crowdfunding, in which I, like hundreds of people, took an active part. The total contribution of those who joined the project exceeded 60 million rubles. This is very different from the standard approach to film production. The film carefully recreates that era, including through a detailed study of everyday life and other features of the time.

As the participants of the filming process say, the authors practically abandoned standard computer graphics. They recreated full-size models of Yak-1 fighters and placed them on hydraulic platforms. When the actor is sitting in the cockpit and controlling it, he is really doing it, and his body is subjected to real loads, which can be seen in the frame.

This film should definitely be watched in a cinema. At home, it's hard to understand the scale that the authors have created. That "nerve" is revealed only on the big screen. It's in the cinema that you can truly appreciate the scale of the conceived, air battles, visual component, directorial and camerawork. Don't miss the main military film premiere!

Thank you for the film, emotions and memory!

https://litvyakfilm.ru

https://x.com/UlyanaStrizh/status/2051757435061146092

[Ravenlocke]

Aleksey The Great 🇷🇺🎖

Estonians lay flowers at the Bronze Soldier, a monument to Soviet soldiers.🚩🌹
Thank you, and be careful, people, don't forget you live in a Euro-dictatorship

https://x.com/aleksthgrt/status/2052772335912911204

[Ravenlocke]

Brian McDonald

Russian restoration specialists have used AI tools to repair footage of scenes filmed in Berlin immediately after Germany’s surrender at the end of WW2.

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...16298451222932

[Ravenlocke]

Дepлorabлe Russian🔹

The Monument to the Soviet Soldier-Liberator in Berlin🇩🇪 stands as a symbol of sacrifice and heroism of Soviet soldiers of WWII.
I am grateful to the German🇩🇪 people for preserving and respecting this monument, unlike what is happening in Ukraine and much of Europe🇪🇺.
https://x.com/TeaTramRussia/status/2052766580883202189

Игорь Лиепас

Translated from Russian
Germans bring flowers to the monuments of Soviet soldiers in Treptow Park in Berlin.
One of the locals told @ruptlyalert that the day of the end of World War II is the best and most important holiday of the year for her. She called the ban on everything Russian in Germany absurd.

https://x.com/igorkushnarev2/status/2052749092825252263

[Ravenlocke]

Tsar Ivan Returns

May 7

Commentary account
Translated from Bulgarian
The heroes of the Brest Fortress. Eternal memory and glory! 🫡

https://x.com/RusHonorBG/status/2052459955110695396

[Ravenlocke]

Lark 🇷🇺

Translated from Russian
Mamaev Kurgan

On our Mamaev Kurgan, the light installations "Light of the Great Victory," which have already become an annual tradition, have begun.
And it is incredibly powerful.

https://x.com/Oleg_Lark/status/2052721609656430831

[Ravenlocke]

Rina Lu🇷🇺

Western media spent 81 years convincing you the Red Army were savages in Berlin. Here's a Soviet soldier dancing in the rubble of Hitler's capital, May 1945. Just celebrating survival after losing 27 million of his people to stop fascism.

But they'll never show you this footage.

https://x.com/rinalu_/status/2052694080925397146

[Ravenlocke]

Ангулемский

May 6
Translated from Russian
Despite attempts to rewrite history, there is still a place for the feat of the Soviet soldier in Europe.

In the Hungarian village of Cece, on May 6, 2026, a monument was unveiled to 569 Soviet warriors who fell in battles against the fascists.

https://x.com/PLuWex/status/2052219516331962647

[Ravenlocke]

Marina
@MMerangul
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4h
Translated from Russian
📣 "Attention! This is Moscow speaking! All radio stations of the Soviet Union are broadcasting!
The Great Patriotic War, which the Soviet people waged against the German fascist invaders, has been victoriously concluded.
Germany has been completely defeated!"

Every time... it gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes.

https://x.com/MMerangul/status/2052758865972732379

[Ravenlocke]

i.aiestaran

Translated from Spanish
This is how the Katiushas sounded, launched by the Red Army to liberate Europe from Berlin, and which so terrified the Nazis. Glory and honor to all the Soviet Russians of that war of liberation.


https://x.com/MMerangul/status/2052800221969567827

[Ravenlocke]

Marina

Translated from Russian
Rzhev

"Cranes"

It seems to me sometimes that the soldiers,
Who did not return from the bloody fields,
Did not once fall into our earth,
But turned into white cranes.

Even to this day, from those distant times,
They fly and send us their voices,
Is it not for this reason that so often and sadly
We fall silent, gazing into the skies...
🙏


https://x.com/MMerangul/status/2052721481411428777

[Ravenlocke]

aapayés
@aapayes
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20h
Translated from Spanish
☭ USSR Victory Day ☭
☭ 🌎🇷🇺 ☭
Parade of Captured Nazi Germans through the Streets of Moscow

☭ May 9 ☭

Victory Day of the Great Patriotic War - USSR over Nazi Germany in Berlin


https://x.com/aapayes/status/2052536054297575713

[Ravenlocke]

Алиса.Азъ есмь.

Translated from Russian
I brought home from the fronts of Russia
A cheerful contempt for all things shabby—
Like a mink coat, I wore
My own charred little overcoat.

Let patches bristle at the elbows,
Let the boots wear through—no matter!
Never afterward was I so fine
Or so wealthy...

Yuliya Drunina.


https://x.com/Alisa66716831/status/2052662264977563720

[Ravenlocke]

Kristian_B 🇷🇺 ❤️ 🇩🇪
Translated from German
🇷🇺 🕯️ For Victory Day, something a bit personal: Not far from the village where my dacha stands, in the Tver Region, Belsky District, near the village of Ploskoye (Плосское), there is a memorial site for 12,500 ‼️ Red Army soldiers, Siberian troops, men and women from Kuzbass and Krasnoyarsk, Altai people and those from Omsk, who fell there in November 1942 in the fight against Nazi Germany and rest in a mass grave.
🕯️ Once again: Twelve thousand five hundred people ‼️
And yet I, as a German, was warmly welcomed here back then - over 20 years ago now ‼️ No resentment, no rejection ...
🔳 The memorial consists of 125 black polished stones. Each stone stands for 100 Red Army soldiers. In addition, there is a 12-meter-high obelisk chapel made of red brick. The memorial landscape includes a grove of coniferous and deciduous trees as well as a green lawn that stretches from the mass grave to the chapel.
🔳 The place where the monument was erected has been called "Valley of Death" («Долина смерти») ever since, right up to today.
🔳 The Tver land was once the epicenter of fierce battles, each piece of which was literally soaked with the blood of Soviet soldiers who gave their lives in the fights for the Motherland. The idea to erect the monument came from veterans who had once fought here themselves.
🔳 Occasionally, locals come here, sit by the stones, and share a glass of vodka with the soldiers.
And no one touches that glass or takes it away ...
🇷🇺 #Russland #Россия #Russia #помним #9Mai #9мая #ДеньПобеды #СоветскийСоюз #WW2
#Russophobie #Kriegstreiber #Staatsräson #Bundesregierung

https://x.com/Dr_C_Becker/status/2052834203138765171

[Ravenlocke]

☭ Саша➳☭

Translated from Russian
Last Radio Broadcast of the German Armed Forces (May 9, 1945)

The High Command of the Armed Forces highly commended the units that fought with discipline and self-sacrifice to the end, and announced the capitulation of Germany.

https://x.com/AliFawz66838289/status...32261943251050

[Ravenlocke]

Mila_BatSheva

Translated from Russian
1942. A letter from my grandmother from the front to her relatives who are in evacuation in Bashkortostan. She writes that she caught malaria and is lying in the hospital. Alyosha (the husband of her own sister, a pilot) visits her "on the fly." She doesn't understand why her cousin Vita isn't writing anything. And Vita is in captivity...



https://x.com/Mila_BatSheva/status/2052762168374829522