larry johnson says the russians remember the great patriotic war much better than the americans;

As I write this, it is 2215 hours Eastern in the United States. The war in Europe officially ended at 2301 hours Central European Time on May 8, 1945. In Moscow, the time was 0001 hours, May 9, 1945. That is why the Russians celebrate May 9, while the West commemorates the end of the war on May 8.

If you missed my article, published last week, Donald Trump’s Grotesque Lie About the US Role in the European Theater in World War II, I have linked the article for your convenience. In a few hours, more than 100 million Russians will assemble and march in memory of their ancestors who made unimaginable sacrifices to defeat Hitler’s Nazi regime. As I noted in my article (see above), the Nazis, along with their Romanian, Italian and Hungarian collaborators, murdered between 16 million and 19 million Russian civilians.

Only one other country experience comparable civilian casualties… China. According to scholarly sources, about 12 million Chinese civilians died as a result of Japanese military actions, occupation policies, massacres, and war-induced famine and disease between 1937 and 1945. Some sources suggest the total number of Chinese deaths (including both civilians and military) could be as high as 20 million, with the vast majority being civilians. The Nanjing Massacre alone resulted in the deaths of at least 100,000 to over 200,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers in just a few weeks in late 1937 and early 1938.

This is one reason why China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is in Moscow. Both Putin and Xi understand that foreign invaders left a permanent scar on the cultural psyche of the Russian and Chinese people… one that is not quickly erased by the passage of time........more.........