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Английский не для язычников. Fun edition #24. Victory Day



Английский не для язычников. Fun edition!
Выпуск №24 - May 9

Здравствуйте! На подходе великий день для России (Russia) и всех бывших союзных республик именовавших себя СССР (USSR). Да, 9 мая. По-настоящему всенародный и важный праздник. Очень хорошо, что сегодня в преддверии этого дня у многих людей в нашей стране есть время помочь ветеранам войны и тыла. Можно уделить им свое внимание, исполнить песню, стихи, помочь с уборкой дома или элементарно купить молока и хлеб. Не я это придумал, но идея требует воплощения в жизнь. Сделайте добро один раз и это станет хорошей привычкой!

Про то, что такое фашизм рассказывают в школе на уроках истории. Про неофашистов и националистов то и дело рассказывают новости. А вот ужасы, которые творили люди в фашистской униформе в годы Великой Отечественной (Второй мировой) войны под знаменами этой идеологии почему-то забываются в памяти людей. Холокост - вот антиреклама ада, устроенного фашистами, убивших миллионы мирных жителей. Об этом никогда нельзя забывать!

Day: May 9, Victory Day
Event: Celebration
Text difficulty: easy
It's fun for: from teens to adults

Victory Day (Russian: День Победы) marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the Second World War commonly referred to in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. This capitulation was signed late in the evening on May 8, 1945 (May 9 in the Moscow time zone), following the original capitulation Germany signed earlier to the joint Allied forces. The Soviet government announced the victory early on May 9 after the signing ceremony in Berlin. The May 9 Victory Day is celebrated in most of the successor states to the Soviet Union, especially in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. (However, the Baltic states, which claim that Soviet Union has used its defeat over Nazi Germany as an opportunity to occupy them for next 40 years, celebrate the victory day on May 8th.) The day is traditionally marked by ceremonial military parades with the most prominent one being traditionally held in Moscow Red Square.

More info on http://en.wikipedia.org

Militant anti-fascism

Militant anti-fascism is a form of anti-fascism that advocates the use of violence against fascism. Within the anti-fascist movement, the term militant anti-fascism is often used in contrast to liberal anti-fascism. Neo-Nazis and neo-Fascists often use violence and depend on a physical presence in the streets, and militant anti-fascists believe that an equal counterweight is essential to stop fascism. While European liberal anti-fascists either call on the state to outlaw hate speech or prosecute fascists under existing laws, militant anti-fascists either oppose such calls or put no energy into heeding them, on the grounds that they are insufficient. Militant anti-fascists are usually supporters of class struggle, and view fascism as an anti-working class political system. Militant anti-fascists tend to promote radical anti-capitalist transformation of society, rather than defending the status quo of liberal democracy. This usually translates into support for some form of socialism or anarchism.

The Holocaust

The Holocaust (from the Greek holókauston from olon "completely" and kauston "burnt"), also known as Ha-Shoah, Khurbn or Halokaust, is the term generally used to describe the killing of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the National Socialist regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler. 

Other groups were persecuted and killed by the regime, including 220,000–500,000 Sinti and Roma, the disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet POWs (prisoners of war), Polish citizens, and political prisoners. Many scholars do not include these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, defining it as the genocide of the Jews, or what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" ("Die Endlösung der Judenfrage"). Taking into account all the victims of Nazi persecution, the death toll rises considerably: estimates generally place the total number of victims at nine to 11 million.

The following estimates provide a range of the number of non-Jewish victims:

3.5–6 million other Slavic civilians
2.5–4 million Soviet POWs
1.8–1.9 million Christian Poles and other non-Jewish Poles (estimate includes civilians killed as a result of Nazi aggression and occupation but does not include the military casualties of Nazi aggression or the victims of the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland and of deportations to Central Asia and Siberia)
1–1.5 million political dissidents
220,000–500,000 Roma & Sinti (Gypsies)
100,000 communists
80,000–200,000 European Freemasons
75,000–250,000 people with disabilities
5,000–15,000 gay men
2,500–5,000 Jehovah's Witnesses 

More info on http://en.wikipedia.org

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