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The celebration of 24 August 1991 year was understood worldwide, including Ukraine, as almost a childish holiday. Naive and at the same time routine, another day off with flags-and-balloons, embroidered shirts, and round dances. But it turned out that 24 August 1991 year Russia perceived as the day it was declared war on it. And since then it has clearly treated it as the day of rebellion, as a treacherous strike in its heart by external enemies who exploited its temporary dizziness.
Every summer in August they felt hell. Not hot days — but these our childlike round dances, these our white embroidered shirts and balloons bore them pain. They perceived it all as humiliation, as aggression, as gunfire.
And remember the very name Independence — with what contempt they throughout the way pronounced it, as if they tried to twist it with their own pronunciation? And the perfectly opposite day of the year — 24 February — they chose as the day of our end, the antithesis day, when they would stop our, as they thought, very childish round dance. With this number they finally showed how much it hurt them. 24 February was to become Moscow's day of triumph, the revival of their strength, the rejuvenation of triumph.
And all this time — did we know about it? Did we truly believe, even after the first phase of the war 2014-15 years? Or were we a little in a childish, naive universe? Did we take seriously the thousands of worst threats that for decades poured from marginal publications and terrifying novels, and then — through social networks? Not from the highest offices, but from the mouths of a thousand-faced Russian people, so sincere and direct? Did we think that on this planet there remained not a single adult who would allow, who would forbid — for example, to one day encircle a large city, Mariupol, and almost destroy everything inside?
August will prevail over February, fire over ice. With the smoke of fires, the army of August has more chances for victory, and the country of February more disorientation. The stakes rise higher and higher. In this confrontation of these numbers, nothing mathematically average wins. Behind these numbers stand different formulas.
Through Independence Day you can see Victory Day over Russia.
Source: Ihor Lutsenko / Facebook
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