🕯️ May 9 – Victory Day: Between Forgetting and Obligation

Today is May 9. The day in 1945 when Nazi Germany signed the capitulation in Berlin. The end of the bloodiest conflict in human history. The end of a system that reduced human life to a number, to statistics, to a “case” in the industry of death.

But May 9 is not just a memory. It is a living obligation.

📜 The Coalition of the Incompatible

What makes this day unique in history is the fact that on the same side fought: Americans and Russians, British and Chinese, communists and democrats, capitalists and socialists, conservatives, liberals, social democrats, Christian democrats. That coalition proved that when faced with absolute evil – the demarcation line ceases to divide. Even bitter rivals became allies. It was not just a military alliance – it was an alliance of civilization against barbarism.

In my country, Serbia, the anti-fascist movement took on massive proportions. An entire nation rose against the occupier. And today, in 2026, Serbia is one of the few countries in Europe that still nurtures the tradition of anti-fascism as a national holiday.

🔥 The Cold War: The First Crack in Victory

But victory did not last long. As soon as Nazism was militarily defeated, the great division began. The Cold War started. Yesterday’s allies became tomorrow’s enemies. Two narratives emerged – in the West, “left Hegelians against right Hegelians”; in the East, fascism as a “necessary product of capitalism and Western democracy.” Both sides made a fatal mistake: they began using anti-fascism as an ideological weapon in their own war.

Meanwhile, former Nazis and fascists washed their biographies. They were not punished. They became “useful” for their intelligence, scientific or technical knowledge. And so evil, although militarily defeated, continued to live in a new form.

⚙️ Dismantling the Anti-Fascist Order

With the end of the Cold War, the process of dismantling the international order built on anti-fascist principles began. The United Nations are getting weaker. Mechanisms to prevent the emergence of new fascism practically do not exist. Historical revisionism has become common – from Hungary to Poland, from Croatia to Germany.

We are witnessing relativization – some European leaders today equate anti-fascists with collaborators, tear down monuments, rewrite textbooks. And while this happens, we forget the most important lesson: fascism was not defeated once and for all. It must be defeated every day.

🧬 New Threats, Old Principles

Today, in 2026, we face threats that even the Nazis could not imagine. Wars are no longer fought only with tanks and planes. Today we have ballistic and hypersonic missiles with conventional warheads, drones that bring death without a pilot, artificially created viruses that know no borders. But the greatest threat may not be weapons – the greatest threat is science without ethics.

🤖 Transhumanism: The New “Superman”?

Today there is serious discussion about transhumanism – the idea that humans should be “enhanced” by technology, to overcome biological limitations, to create a “super-human” being. Let us remember: the concept of the “superman” we have heard before. In Nazi Germany. In the camps where Dr. Mengele conducted his experiments. They did not have the technology we have today. But they had the intention. And the intention was the same: dividing people into those who matter and those who do not.

Today, with artificial intelligence, robotics, bioengineering and genetic modifications – that division could become technically feasible. And that is why we must ask: can we not remain – human?

🌍 Ecology of Living: Sustainable Coexistence

Fascism is not just a political system. Fascism is a relationship to the world – a relationship in which some have the right to life, others do not. In which some have the right to resources (Lebensraum), and others are just obstacles. Today, the same principle appears in new guise – through economic wars, migration crises, struggles for resources that will become ever fiercer. Anti-fascism is, in essence, an ecology of living – the teaching that every human life is a universal value. That no one has the right to take away from another their resources, identity, dignity, and ultimately life itself.

🎯 Hegel and the Eternal Task of Truth

The German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel taught us that truth is not reached once and for all. That man is condemned to constant re-examination, to dialectical movement, to avoiding dogmas. In that sense, anti-fascism must not become a dogmatic category. It must not turn into an ideology applied uncritically – because then it ceases to be what it is. But the value of anti-fascism – the preservation of humanity – must remain unquestionable.

As I wrote earlier on MilovanInnovation: “The paradox of capitalism is that the system that maximizes productivity simultaneously undermines its own measure of value.” The same paradox applies to humanity: the more we technologically advance, the more we must remind ourselves why we are human.

🕯️ A Motto for the 21st Century

“Let us be and remain human.”

Not super-human (transhumanist fantasy).
Not sub-human (fascist categorization).
Not trans-human (technological illusion).
But human beings – with all their weaknesses, but also with all their dignity. With the right to make mistakes. With the right to be different. With the right to life.

⭐ Final Thought

May 9 reminds us that peace is not a natural state. Peace is an achievement. Won by blood. And it must be defended daily – not only on battlefields, but in schools, universities, media, laboratories, everyday conversations. Therefore: let us not forget. Let us not relativize. Let us not give in. Because the victory over fascism did not end in 1945. It is renewed every day – in each of us.

⭐ MilovanInnovation – science, technology, spirituality. And always – humanity first.