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From last night to today, the following picture, which looks like a promotional poster of a travel agency, has been circulated on social platforms such as Weibo and several WeChat groups of Lao Ding. Under a picture that looks like a military parade on Red Square in Russia, the bold words "Vladivostok Military Parade" on the poster are eye-catching, and they are embellished with a hot gold ribbon background. For the so-called "high-quality small package group" four-day tour that starts and ends in Hunchun (located in Jilin Province), there are some slogans marked in gold or red fonts on the poster, such as "Russian Victory Day on May 9" and "Russia's 79th Anniversary Victory Parade, Come and Experience the Fighting National Military Ceremony" and so on.
As one of the hardly favorite military parade peoples, according to previous media reports, Russia's military parade on Red Square to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War will be held in the capital Moscow on May 9 this year. According to the practice of previous years, in addition to Moscow's Red Square, military parades of different scales will also be held in some major Russian cities such as St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, and Vladivostok (known as Vladivostok in Russian). For example, on May 9 last year, a military parade was held in Vladivostok to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.
It is said that travel agencies organize domestic tour groups to travel to Vladivostok around May 9, which is not much of a concern. However, the so-called "Vladivostok Military Parade" is so prominently displayed in the poster, accompanied by the words "victory" and "fighting national military ceremony", which shows that there is a kind of revelation of the historical scars of the Chinese people and the meaning of adding blockage to people, especially a sense of "the merchant girl does not know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the flower in the backyard across the river".
Lao Ding also noticed that in the relevant copywriting recently released by some tourism official accounts, there are still some paragraphs that make people read very mixed, such as the paragraph in the picture below: "People on the street spontaneously hold photos of their ancestors to commemorate the deceased veterans." Everyone slowly walked down the parade streets, following behind the orderly army. The sound of wave after wave of 'Ula' is inspiring, and you have to stop and feel the atmosphere with your heart. ”
People with a little historical knowledge may know that Vladivostok, as the largest port city on the Pacific coast of Russia and the base of the Russian Pacific Fleet, was originally Chinese territory. In November 1860, Tsarist Russia forced the impoverished and weak late Qing government to sign the Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing, an unequal treaty that ceded the territory east of the Ussuri River, including Vladivostok, to Tsarist Russia, and renamed it Vladivostok, which means "to rule the East" in Russian. Throughout the second half of the 19th century, Tsarist Russia swallowed more than 1.5 million square kilometers of territory from China through a series of unequal treaties.
Nowadays, when looking at Vladivostok, the former homeland of China, the feelings of ordinary Chinese people are more complicated. The loss of Vladivostok means that Northeast China has lost this excellent outlet to the sea and ice-free port, and behind it is a history of humiliation that has lasted for a century. According to Article 14 of the "Specification for the Representation of Public Map Contents" issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources in February 2023, eight place names related to Russia should be indicated in parentheses on the map, the first being "Vladivostok" and "Vladivostok".
Although history should not be allowed to tie the hands and feet of the present like a rope, some of the practices of the Russian side in recent years have quite a feeling that they took advantage of your danger to snatch food from your bowl at the beginning, and now they have to go to your bowl to smack their lips when they get cheap. On July 2, 2020, the Russian Embassy in China posted a message on Weibo to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the founding of Vladivostok. The blog post is more unintentional and more intentional in saying that the history of Vladivostok began in 1860, when Russia established a military port here called "Vladivostok", which means "to rule the East".
This provocative Weibo sparked a backlash from the public at the time. Even Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, who had not yet retired at the time, said that he was opposed to the Russian embassy posting this Weibo, which was a basic attitude. In his view, the Russian embassy's posting on Chinese social media is not a sign of respect for the Chinese public, and it is inconsistent with one of the embassy's missions to promote people-to-people friendship between China and Russia. It's just that in May last year, there was such a news that was widely circulated on the Internet - Russia commemorated the 165th anniversary of the signing of the "Aihui Treaty" in a high-profile manner.
What's even more incredible is the reaction of some people in China to this, which has a kind of "abuse you thousands of times, treat him like his first love". For example, Sima Nan, a "leftist" big V, once said murderously in front of the screen that those who talk about the history of China and Russia and affect the strategic partnership between China and Russia today should be "killed." And last month, a man with some status in China, with the help of simultaneous interpretation software on his mobile phone, said to a group of young Russian students on Moscow's Red Square, "I hope that the Chinese army will send troops as soon as possible to defeat Western countries." China and Russia together, defeat NATO, defeat France".
Back to that travel poster. Looking back on all kinds of unbearable things in history, the photo of the military parade above the big characters of "Vladivostok Military Parade" may even give people a great sense of humiliation that was conquered by iron hooves. Whose "victory" is this? What do you want the domestic travelers to "feel"? Could it be that when our neighbors occupy our house, we have to run over and praise their house for getting bigger? And feel their arrogance and contempt for "the winner is king"?
Rong Lao Ding said something ugly, good neighbors should be friendly, but don't be cheap. What do you say?