May 10, 2026 | The Telegraph
Putin’s latest Victory Day parade shows a desperate, hollow regime
For all the Russian president’s cultivated image as a geopolitical chess master, the board is starting to look empty
May 10, 2026 | The Telegraph
Putin’s latest Victory Day parade shows a desperate, hollow regime
For all the Russian president’s cultivated image as a geopolitical chess master, the board is starting to look empty
Excerpt
Every year on May 9, Russia turns Victory Day into its most important exercise in state propaganda.
The parade on Red Square is designed to project strength abroad and reinforce loyalty at home. It is an orchestrated display of military power, historical mythology, and political messaging wrapped around the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945.
Dr. Ivana Stradner serves as a research fellow with the Barish Center for Media Integrity at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).