Dear citizens of the Russian Federation,
Distinguished guests,
Comrade soldiers and sailors, sergeants, sergeant-majors and warrant officers,
Comrade officers, generals and admirals,
I congratulate you on this, the sixtieth anniversary of our great victory! I congratulate you on this celebration of peace and triumph of justice, this day that marks the victory of good over evil and of freedom over tyranny.
Sixty years have now passed. But every year on May 9 the memory of the war appeals to our reason, committing us to great responsibility and making us realise with more acuteness just how close the world came at that time to plunging into an irreversible abyss. On this day we see more clearly just what monstrous consequences violence, racial intolerance, genocide and outrage committed against people could have had.
We will never forget that these enormities bring people nothing but fear, humiliation and death.
We will always honour all those who fought on the frontlines and those who selflessly toiled in the rear.
We will mourn the dead and pay them the debt of gratitude of those who they saved.
The Second World War caught up 61 countries and almost 80 percent of the Earth’s population in its inferno. This hurricane of fire blazed a trail of destruction not only across Europe but also across Asia and Africa. It reached all the way to Novaya Zemlya and Alaska, to the frontiers of Egypt and Australia.
But the most ruthless and decisive events -- the events that determined the drama and the outcome of this inhuman war -- unfolded on the territory of the Soviet Union. The Nazis counted on rapid enslavement of our people. Their intention was to destroy our country.
Their plans failed. First, the Soviet army halted the Nazi advance outside Moscow. Then, over the next three years, not only did they hold the enemy in check but were able to drive it back, back into its own lair.
The battles of Moscow and Stalingrad, the courage of besieged Leningrad and the successes at Kursk and on the Dnieper decided the outcome of World War II. Through the liberation of Europe and the battle for Berlin the Red Army brought the war to its victorious conclusion.
Dear friends,
Today also marks a new day for Russia and the whole world.
After the events of 1991, we slowly rose to reclaim our status as a Great Power once more. We began solidifying our economic might across the world, and saw the begining of a new superpower in the eyes of many. And we saw territories once belonging to the czars and the Soviet Union return to the Motherland once more.
A few months ago, we had annexed the Republic of the Ukraine.
In March of this year, our great troops declared the annexation of Kazakhstan.
And in last month, President Lukashenko declared the Belarussian Republic annexed into the Federation.
We have therefore expanded our nation to become a giant in the eyes of the world. The facts of the past few months speak for themselves.
The era of the Russian Federation ends. The era of the Russian Empire begins.
We must therefore call the peoples of the nations that once were part of the old Empire to join the Motherland, and to fly our banner in the face of tyranny and oppresion, just as we had over 60 years ago.
Dear citizens of the Empire,
Distinguished guests,
May 9 was and always will be a sacred day for our country, a celebration that not only inspires and elevates us but also fills our hearts with a most complex mix of feelings – joy and sorrow, sympathy and nobility.
It is a celebration that inspires us to the most lofty moral acts and gives us the opportunity once again to bow down before those who gave us freedom, the freedom to live, work, feel joy, create, and understand each other.
Victory Day is our closest, sincerest and most truly national holiday.
For the peoples of the former Soviet Union it will always be the day celebrating the great feats they achieved together.
And for the countries of Europe and the entire planet it marks the day when the world was saved.
And now, it is a day that would be marked forever in the history of civilized nations. Men will forever say "This is the day the Russian Empire rose again."
Our fathers and grandfathers were willing to lay down their lives for the honour and freedom of their country. They were united and they defended their Motherland.
Now, their sons and daugthers shall be united in their stuggle to fight for their Empire.
I bow low today before all veterans of the Great Patriotic War and I wish them a long and happy life.
Glory to the victorious soldiers of the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War!
To the Victory Day!
Glory to the New Russian Empire!
To our Motherland!
Hurrah!
