By Dmitry Tymchuk, Coordinator, Information Resistance
05.09.2014
Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine
My grandfather, also Dmitry Tymchuk, fought as an artilleryman [a gunner]. In 1942 he was captured. He was able to escape only on his third attempt in 1944–already from the “death camp” near Dresden, where he was sent after his second escape attempt failed. My grandfather was sneaking his way through to the east, through Hungary, when he reunited with the advancing troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front. Then he reached Elbe in 1945 among troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front. “With arms in hand, I returned back to the spot from which I escaped” –joked my grandfather.
The fact is that my grandfather saw a very different Red Army in Hungary. Not an army running from the enemy in panic, but an army that knew how to fight. Not paralyzed with terror, but an army that meted out menacing blows. An Army of Victory.
Unlike the Soviet Union in 1941, Ukraine at the beginning of 2014 did not have a powerful army, many thousands of tanks and planes, sizeable numbers of trained reservists, and inexhaustible resources.
We have entered into an undeclared war with Russia with a parody of an army and police that can be easily bought, the generals are corrupt to the bone, and the commanders are not willing to acknowledge responsibility.
But today, the new Ukrainian army is born in the trenches along our eastern borders. Our soldiers are beginning to have faith in their weapons and already know how to use them. They are ready to meet the aggressor.
In the battle for a new Donbas, new riot police and National Guards are born.
At headquarters and command posts parasitic generals are gradually being replaced by people who can make decisions and take responsibility. People who have a strong will and love for Ukraine.
We, unfortunately, are still far away from 1944. But we’re not in 1941 anymore. In two months we have gone from June 22 of 1941 all the way to the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1943, when the Army of Victory was born.
Inevitably we will have our 1945, and our May 9.
Our forefathers believed in fighting for the freedom of their people and their country, and they won. We know that we are fighting for our freedom. Therefore, we will also win. There is no other option.
Happy holiday to you my brothers and sisters!
Happy Victory Day!
“Never Again”
Source: Dmitry Tymchuk FB
Voices of Ukraine 
Reblogged this on Euromaidan PR and commented:
DMITRY TYMCHUK: A few words for Victory Day
Dimitry Tymchuk writes: “Our forefathers believed in fighting for the freedom of their people and their country, and they won. We know that we are fighting for our freedom.” Maybe the soldiers in the Red army believed that they fight for freedom, but Stalin was more realistic and when he drank a toast to them at the end of the war he called them “cogs of a great socialist machine.” Cogs are instruments, and so were the soldiers of the Red Army. They expelled the Nazi tyrant Hitler, but on their shoulders they carried into Ukraine and a good part of Europe another tyrant, Communist Stalin and his genocidal regime. To commemorate the valor and sacrifice of Soviet soldiers in RECONQUERING in driving out the Nazi regime from Ukraine, it is not necessary to continue celebrating the horrendous lies of Soviet propaganda about the victory of the Soviet people. The victory was his who reaped the fruits of that victory: Stalin and his bloody Communist party.
We don’t think so. It was our common victory. Without us Stalin and his party couldn’t do something. And Hitler was our common enemy, even UPA fighted against Hitler as well, not against the Stalin only. It’s more complicated then seems.
Greetings from Dresden and thanks for freeing us from Hitler. Unfortunately we also suffered from another dictatorship right after the Nazi dictatorship ended. At least in East Germany. So I can relate to your struggle for freedom and democracy. Good luck!