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Russia doesn't particularly care. They're not some bastion of progressivism. Realpolitik dictates it's useful to bang the drums of "Russia saved the Jews in world war two and Ukraine and the EU are run by Nazis".

I commented on this before: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7152559/6032209

Ya'll please calm the heck down. There are long-running reasons for this invitation. One instance of realpolitik does not suddenly mean 'Russia bad', that is liberal thinking.

Before the collapse of the USSR, it had a sizable Jewish minority. The USSR saved many Jews from the Nazis, and most ended up living in the USSR.

After the collapse, that minority immigrated to Israel and make up about 15% of the Israeli population. Many have dual Russian-Israeli passports. 1 in 4 staff members in Israeli universities are native Russian speakers.^[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Israel]

These Russian Jews act both as a potent fifth column promoting Zionism in Russia, and facilitate useful political connections between Israel and Russia. For example, Israel has been rather quiet about Russia's operations in Ukraine. In return, Russia doesn't say much about Israel's genocide in Palestine.

Because of these circumstances, Russia doesn't readily oppose Israel. When Russia works with Iran, Russia explicitly says that they cannot involve themselves in an Israel-Iran conflict. The most Russia can do without pissing off their Jewish fifth column is to weaken American influence and hope that makes Israel less insane.

In 2024, Israel officially recognized Victory Day as a holiday, and is one of the only non post-Soviet countries to do so. It makes sense that Russia would return the gesture by inviting them to the Victory Day Parade in 2025. ^[https://www.jns.org/russia-invites-israel-to-may-9-event-us-eu-unwelcome/] Israel previously attended the 2018 parade at Russia's invitation.

Russia has also invited China, India, Brazil, Slovakia, Serbia, and Mahmoud Abbas from the Palestinian Authority.

I don't like this Russian invitation either, but it makes sense from Russia's history with Jews. It certainly has better reasons than how much America buddies up with Israel. Russia actually protected Jews in WWII, while America just lies about their pro-Jewish history.

TLDR: Zionists fuck up the relations with Israel of any country they worm their way inside, and Russia is no exception.

Russia is also using Victory Day as a pre-summit before BRICS in July 2025. Russia has invited the BRIC members of BRICS alongside Eastern Europe and Israel. It would make sense for them to use the opportunity to talk.

Plus they invited fucking Mohammad Abbas.

Because the Russian government of today doesn't remember and doesn't care about what this day represents. I wish BadComedian's videos on YouTube were translated into English so that English speaking comrades could see for themselves the nightmarish level of farce Russian state-sponsored media turned this memory into: evil NKVD drunkards forcing genetically pure Russian soldiers to die while they survive with the help of God™️ and make friends with SS soldiers because "the Russian soul is so kind", etc. Inviting Israel to the parade is really not the worst of it.

I don't like this, but I've also read that Russia invites countries to it's Victory Day Parades as a pseudo-summit for political purposes.