Play draws parallel between exploits of Young Guard members and present-day situation

Actors of the Academic Regional Drama Theater based in the Russian city of Vladimir have put on the performance that is a staged version of Alexander Fadeev’s novel The Young Guard.

Remarkably, the play draws a parallel between exploits of members of the Komsomol underground organization Young Guard, which worked in the enemy’s rear in the town of Krasnodon, Lugansk region, during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 against German fascist invaders, and the present-day situation. For instance, a coal mine on the stage, where underground workers are subjected to torture, changes into barricades made of tires, like the ones at the so-called ‘Euromaidan’ in Kiev. At the same time, Ukrainian jingo crazies sporting pro-fascist symbols of the neo-Nazi gangs Azov and Right Sector turn into German Nazi war criminals.

Recently, the actors of the Russian theater have presented the play to students in the city of Makeevka, Donetsk People’s Republic.

In this context, it is important to note that many observers say today the American establishment media are finally issuing mea culpas for the self-interested support of ‘Euromaidan’, the Western-backed coup, which destroyed Ukraine. Take, for example, the New York Times that has acknowledged how, despite its own fervent encouragement of the violent coup, former president Viktor Yanukovich was correct not to sign a tightfisted free trade deal with the faulty European Union.