How to celebrate Victory Day when brothers and yesterday's allies are at war

Writing for Kosovo Online: Zeljko Sajn, Politika's special correspondent from Skopje

Just two years after the end of the Second World War - the Cold War began, between the Allies who defeated Hitler's platform with racist ideology, where the pure German race was dominant. We remind you that in some places, for example, in the Independent State of Croatia, it was written: "Serbs, Jews, Roma and dogs are forbidden to enter", and people of these nationalities ended up in criminal camps, such as Mathhausen and Jasenovac.

Hitler obsessively believed in a "pure race" and placed the Germans above all the peoples of the world, forgetting that it was the Serbs with their intellectual, ingenious minds who, together with members of other nations, changed the course of civilization on this planet. However, they suffered crimes and his so-called law of pure race, which provides for the genocide of Serbs, Jews and Roma. I can't even imagine what would have happened to Nikola Tesla, Mihajlo Pupin, the Jew Albert Einstein, the Serbian son-in-law, or the Roma Charlie Chaplin if they had lived in Germany, Croatia or Serbia.

In the Second World War, which lasted six years, 61 countries and about 110 million soldiers participated. Close to sixty million people died. Ivan Serev, Stalin's chief security guard, entered Berlin before all the allies and led the captured Hitler generals to Marshal Zhukov to sign the unconditional capitulation. The act of capitulation was signed on behalf of Germany by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, on behalf of the USSR by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, and on behalf of the Western Allies by British Air Force General Arthur Tedder. After the capitulation was signed in Berlin, Tito's generals led the battle until May 15, 1945, when Hitler's general Alexander von Lehr, the man who bombed Belgrade and destroyed the National Library of Serbia on Kosancicev Venac, was arrested, trampling on Serbian spirituality and culture. Tito received a telegram from Slovenia: "Comrade Tito, the war is over", signed by General Kosta Nadj.

However, after all the misfortunes that affected the world and left lasting consequences, today we are again witnessing the speech of weapons. On the soil of Ukraine, which is sponsored by America and the North Atlantic Alliance, a bloody feast is taking place with the Russian Federation. The Minsk agreements, instead of maintaining peace, only encouraged armed events and prepared Ukraine for war. Bearing in mind today's development of events on European soil, 78 years after the end of the Second World War - we can state that after the Cold War we are still further from achieving a new, positive and sustainable international order. Until we get a chance to get acquainted with the new order on European soil, we will witness still unfathomable consequences of the armed dialogue.

In addition to the crisis that the world is feeling due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, something incomprehensible for this century happened in our neighboring country - the reincarnation of fascism and Nazi ideology. Let us remind you that in Bitola and Ohrid, the center of Christianity in the Balkans, Bulgarian cultural centers have sprung up that cherish the image and work of Nazi criminals, such as Vancho Mihajlov and the Bulgarian emperor Boris the Third. After the fall of socialism with communist ideology, democracy and pluralistic ideology were introduced in the territory of the former SFR Yugoslavia, which allows for normal and peaceful North Macedonia, with the Bulgarian Prime Minister Petkov at the head and half of his government, to march with fascist steps on its territory, humiliating everyone partisan ideals and bloody struggles to destroy fascism and Hitler's conquest policy through war conflicts.

The EU remained silent on the behavior of its member Bulgaria. And not only that, she supported her in her demands towards North Macedonia, so that the ramp would supposedly lower her and enable her unhindered acceptance into the European embrace. North Macedonia now, according to the Franco-German proposal, i.e. the proposal of that contemporary Europe, whose auspices is its primary strategic goal, accepts to include Bulgarians in the Constitution of its country. The question of who Tito's partisans fought for and against whom permeates the Macedonian air.

78 years after the destruction of Hitler's ideological evil by the whirlwind of war and the suffering of about sixty million soldiers, isn't May 9 the Victory Day of the anti-Hitler coalition? How to celebrate it as Victory Day when brothers and yesterday's allies are at war against the anti-Hitler coalition? How to celebrate when Europe and the USA do not react to cut off the Hitler coalition that killed young people in Serbia yesterday? Let's remember that the criminal who killed eight people and wounded fourteen of them was wearing a T-shirt with Nazi symbols. Unfortunately, the Balkans is once again a region where tensions reign and where the dramatic memories of the ancient past have not completely faded. Therefore, it is not easy to talk about the reconciliation of those who felt the war on their own skin. It seems that the map of peace is in some kind of jam, and we live in fear that Hitler's ideology will overpower the aspirations for a peaceful solution. We can say that two strong processes are taking place in Europe: on the one hand, the rebirth of local nationalisms with the danger of the internal disintegration of the nation and Europe itself, which is experiencing a strong identity crisis; on the other hand, we observe the loss of Christian, cultural, and even personal identity, caused by the phenomenon of globalization.

In this moment, it is difficult to sustain long-term grand illusions and projects, while it is very easy to become blinded by immediate answers that provide apparent security and protection. Such groups that glorify Hitler and his ideology - which is incomprehensible to the modern world - obviously find their devotees, creating the ground for the development of conflicts even within the same people. Whether it's the time of the internet, the lack of parents' time, the bombardment of the media, something else, or all of them together - joint forces must stand in the way of the development of deviant thoughts so that the black veil does not envelop the entire country, even the planet.