The news coming from Germany, with the question arising: Is the war with Nazi Germany definitely over?
Decree of the Berlin government.
Restriction of general use of public squares and freedom of assembly from May 8, 2025, 06:00, to May 9, 2025, 22:00.
The following is prohibited:
a) wearing a military uniform or its elements;
b) wearing military insignia;
c) a separate or highlighted display of the letters “V” or “Z”;
d) demonstration of St. George’s ribbons;
e) demonstration of flags and banners with Russian symbols, coats of arms of the USSR, Belarus, the Chechen Republic, as well as images of the heads of the respective states;
f) demonstration of symbols and signs capable of glorifying the Russian-Ukrainian war, including:
– flag of the USSR;
– Russian and Soviet military flags;
– images of the Ukrainian territory without Donbass (Lugansk and Donetsk regions, Kherson, Zaporizhie and Crimea);
– flags of the separatist regions of Luдansk and Donetsk, as well as territories under Russian control (Kherson, Zaporizhie, Crimea);
g) reproduction and performance of Russian marching or military songs, in particular all versions of the song “Holy War”.
Source: the channel of the political analyst Razvozzhaev, translated by us at “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”
In fact, by imposing these restrictions, Germany unequivocally confirms two things: that Russia is fighting with fascism in Ukraine; and that Germany is abhorred by the Victory over fascism 80 years ago, thus seeing the need to erase all the symbols of that Victory from public view!
‼️ This is continuation of the fascist practice, with further tightening of the screws. Last year we described it in the post German “humanistic” intermezzo over – Berlin back to its good old fascist inclinations. However, last year, in a display of public disobedience, not dissimilar to that displayed by the good people of the occupied Europe, someone projected the Victory banner on the Brandeburg gate.
👉 First time this was introduced in May 2022, it was the St.George ribbon that became forbidden. We wrote about it in the Beehive article The “Immortal Regiment” broke through the prohibitions in Germany – a reportage from Frankfurt. People came with white ribbons with the words “I am the St. George Ribbon, forbidden in Germany” written on them. We shall see if there will be more creative approaches to the civil disobedience against Fascism this year. Maybe red garments with a yellow flower arrangement on the chest could become fashionable! Or striped shoelaces in black and orange!
“We freed them, and they will never forgive us for this.”
— Georgy Zhukov
Photo: Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Rokossovsky in Berlin, July 12, 1945
Next up, are two excellent commentary posts by “The Islander”:
Germany’s Nazi Amnesia: When Baerbock Bans the Liberators
In an act soaked in historical irony and Russophobic revisionism, German FM Annalena Baerbock, a descendant of a Wehrmacht officer (highly decorated and a true believer Nazi) now seeks to ban Russian and Belarusian officials from attending commemorations of Nazi Germany’s defeat. The very nation whose grandparents ignited the deadliest war in human history is now arrogating moral authority to deny those who paid the heaviest price for Europe’s liberation from fascism.
Let’s state the obvious: 27 million Soviet lives were sacrificed to crush Hitler’s Reich. Without the Red Army storming Berlin, there would be no Germany to moralize today, let alone one lecturing Russia about war and peace. This grotesque act of historical vandalism is not just an insult to memory, but an open embrace of the same ideological virus that once consumed Europe: Nazism reborn under NATO camouflage.
Baerbock’s personal lineage only adds salt to the wound. Her grandfather fought for Hitler. That’s not a footnote, it’s context. And while Russians remember their dead with solemn reverence, Germany’s elite appears hellbent on airbrushing their crimes while vilifying the very nations who brought Nazism to its knees.
This is no coincidence. It’s strategy. NATO and the EU are in the business of memory manipulation. By severing the Soviet Union, and now Russia, from the legacy of victory over fascism, they can recast today’s geopolitical chessboard as a struggle of “democracy” versus “authoritarianism.” But remove the propaganda gloss, and it’s clear: Baerbock’s Germany is using Nazi-era tactics: censorship, historical erasure, demonization of the Slavic Other, against Russia.
What’s next? Will the German government ban Victory Day parades entirely? The sheer audacity of this revisionist theater would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. This isn’t just about who shows up to a wreath-laying ceremony, it’s about who gets to write the story of history.
And yet, Russia remembers. Belarus remembers. China remembers. The Global South, once colonized and bombed by the very Western empires now posing as “guardians of freedom,” remembers. In this emerging multipolar world, memory is resistance, and truth is the first act of sovereignty.
Baerbock and her ilk might wish to bury Soviet valor beneath a NATO flag, but they’ll find themselves digging their own political grave. The more they weaponize the past, the more they awaken the multipolar present, where Russia doesn’t need a seat at their ceremony. It already holds the moral high ground.
Because without Russia, there’d be no Berlin to host these commemorations in the first place. And no Germany left to forget.
Germany to Russia: “You Can Die for Us, But Don’t Dare Remember It.”
80 years after the Red Army liberated Berlin from the Nazi plague, the grandchildren of fascism now dare to lecture Russia on how, where, and when it can honor its fallen.
The German authorities, bloated on NATO subsidies and historical amnesia, just threatened to forcibly remove Russian Ambassador Sergey Nechayev from WWII memorial events unless he requests permission to mourn Soviet soldiers on public soil soaked with their blood.
Professor Axel Drecoll, whose title should include “Dean of Nazis Revival” — spat out a statement that would make Goebbels blush:
“If the ambassador comes anyway, we will enforce our house rules, in close coordination with security forces.”
Let that sink in.
Germany is now threatening to arrest a Russian for laying flowers at the grave of a Red Army soldier who died liberating Germans from Nazis.
What should have been a moment of humility and reverence has been transformed into a grotesque political theatre of Russophobia, with Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Brandenburg officials cheerleading the purge of memory like it’s 1939 again.
Moscow responded with scathing clarity. Maria Zakharova, never one to mince words:
“The German Foreign Ministry has unmasked itself to reveal the ugliness of Russophobia and the hallmarks of Nazism.”
She’s right. This isn’t just historical revisionism, this is Nazism 2.0, this time dressed in rainbow flags and neoliberal doublespeak.
But Nechayev didn’t blink. He showed up. He laid his wreath. And he said what needed to be said:
“We do not need a special invitation to honor the memory of Soviet liberators and victims of Nazism.”
And he wasn’t alone. Ordinary German citizens, those with memory and spine, joined him, grateful for the Red Army’s sacrifice, ashamed of their government’s desecration of history.
Let’s be blunt: Germany has no moral authority to ban anything related to WWII. Not after Barbarossa. Not after 27 million Soviet lives extinguished.
If anything, Berlin should be hosting annual parades of repentance, not issuing bureaucratic threats to those who remember the blood price Russia paid to free Europe from its monstrous past.
Europe is being dragged by the collar back into fascist alignment, only this time, it marches under the NATO flag.
We will not forget.
Never again doesn’t mean silence.
Never again doesn’t mean compliance. Never again means standing where truth demands, even if it’s alone, with wreath in hand.