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Eighty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, this week the world witnessed a spectacular, solemn and joyous event to commemorate that historic achievement. The victory parade in Moscow’s Red Square was a glorious pageant incomparable to anywhere else.

Rightly so, because the defeat of Nazi Germany on May 9, 1945, was largely the result of heroic sacrifices of the Soviet and Russian people.

The annual commemoration remains as poignant and proud to Russians as ever.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was accompanied by many international dignitaries this year to observe the parade. Significantly, with honorable exceptions, Western leaders were absent, prohibited by their toxic Russophobic propaganda and historical contradictions.

China’s President, Xi Jinping, was prominent in the Red Square tribune. Again, rightly so.

The Russian and Chinese nations suffered the most in the Second World War. The worst military conflagration in human history is estimated at a death toll of around 80 million. More than half of all those victims were among the Soviet and Chinese people.

Victory Day on May 9 is usually commemorated as signifying the end of World War II. But Nazi Germany’s Axis partner Imperial Japan was not defeated until August 1945. Imperial Japan’s war in China was conducted with the same genocidal barbarity as Nazi Germany’s in the Soviet Union.

It is profoundly revealing that the end of World War II is largely now a muted event in the Western nations of the United States, Britain, and the rest of Europe. It is eerie that such a world-shattering episode has become an increasingly non-descriptive date in the official Western calendar. By contrast, in Russia, the anniversary of the Great Patriotic War’s victory is more relevant and revered than ever.

The difference is explicable. The so-called “Allied victory” over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan was always something of a charade. Eighty years on, the charade is exposed more than ever to the point where it has become untenable and embarrassing for the Western states.

The Soviet Red Army and the Russian people won the war against the Nazi Third Reich with great human sacrifice. The defeat of Japan was brought about by the United States in a cowardly and despicable act of genocide when it dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The United States and Britain, the Soviet Union’s nominal allies during World War II, made a marginal contribution to defeating Nazi Germany. The indisputable facts that the Nazi Wehrmacht lost 80 per cent of its total casualties fighting against the Soviet Union, and the raising of the Hammer and Sickle over Hitler’s Berlin bunker are testaments to who were the pivotal victors.

No sooner had the Nazi regime been vanquished than the Western powers began their acts of treachery against the Soviet Union. World War II immediately transitioned into the Cold War with the United States and Britain rehabilitating remnants of the Nazi regime. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan was not so much about crushing the Japanese enemy as committing a calculated act of terror to intimidate the Soviet Union.

As author Ron Ridenour recounts in his book, The Russian Peace Threat, the Americans and British had covert, diabolical plans to attack the Soviet Union with atomic weapons in the aftermath of World War II. However, the subsequent development of the bomb in 1949 by the Soviets prevented the Western powers from carrying out their annihilation of Russia.

The treachery of the West was in parallel with the foundation of the United Nations following WWII. There was, of course, lip service to the respect for international law and the sovereignty of nations. But it was all deception.

Lamentably, the war to end all wars and the creation of international peace were an illusion.

To understand the deception and contradiction, one has to understand that the rise of fascism during the 1930s, leading up to WWII, was a product of capitalist imperialism. Hitler’s Germany and Imperialist Japan were certainly distinctive in their barbarity and genocidal propensity. But they were qualitatively no different from Western imperialist states like Britain and the U.S. Both of these regimes routinely conducted genocidal wars in their colonialist domains during the 19th century and the early 20th century.

The Nazi Reich was a bastard child of Western imperialism. American and British capitalist rulers sponsored the German regime and other European fascists for the primary purpose of inflicting a strategic defeat on the Soviet Union, seen as a bastion against Western domination.

Today, Russia may not be the Soviet Union, but it still constitutes an obstacle to Western imperialist designs for global domination, as does the People’s Republic of China.

In the eight decades since the end of World War Two, the world has witnessed scores of wars and conflicts on every continent, most of which have been instigated by the United States and its Western “allies” under various guises and false pretexts, including most laughably the “defense of the free world against Soviet invasion” or “protection of human rights and democracy.” How wickedly absurd. But afforded cover by the Western media propaganda lie machine that hides the crimes by regurgitating and giving credence to the false pretexts. The combined death toll and destruction from those neocolonial or neoimperialist wars over the past eight decades are on a scale comparable to WWII.

We often hear American people and some politicians complaining about the phenomenon of “endless wars”. Rarely do we hear the simple question of why the U.S. is such a relentless warmongering state.

The victory against Nazi Germany in 1945 by the courageous Soviet Red Army was a hugely momentous one. It liberated Europe from a heinous regime. But the more profound fact is that the war did not destroy fascism. Fascism was deftly redeployed by its root sponsors in the Western capitalist system and manifested in the Cold War and countless neoimperialist wars across the planet.

The war system continues unabated and, indeed, with even more vigor and grotesque incarnation. The so-called Jewish State of Israel that supposedly was created in reparation for the Nazi Holocaust is today waging a genocidal extermination of Palestinians, whose land the Western-backed Zionist colonial project stole in 1948. The deliberate starving and bombing of Palestinian babies is carried out with American and European weapons and political support, as the Western propaganda machine known as the news media, damningly, turns a blind eye to the horror. Distorting, minimizing, obscuring, and whitewashing as usual.

This week, at its pale imitation of a “victory parade” in London, the British royals, politicians and military were joined by Ukrainian NeoNazi forces waving their odious Wolf Hook flags. In essence, the four-year proxy war in Ukraine against Russia, fully instigated and weaponized by the Western powers, is but a continuation of World War Two. This time, however, there is no pretense about whose side the Western powers are on.

In the West, history is dead because it is used to bury crimes past and present.

For Russia and other people who seek the truth and genuine international peace, history is very much alive and worth fighting for.