(Newswire.net — May 8, 2015) — The unwillingness of the Obama administration to take part in the 70th anniversary Victory Day celebrations in Moscow has not surprised nor offended the Kremlin. However, pressure on western European countries to maintain its stance on it being “inappropriate” to send delegations to a military parade in Moscow has even been taken by some as an insult to the nation, Russia Today reported.
Someone with great editing skills took this insult very seriously and lunched a video clip on YouTube showing a Russian military parade projection on the White House. The white walls and columns from the base to the roof of the US President’s residence, hosted a yellowish projection of Soviet tanks and troops on a military parade.
At the beginning of the video, there is a note of creators, allegedly students from the Russian Ethnic Movie Project “Set”, which of course does not exist, saying among others that “If Barack won’t to go to Moscow Victory Day Parade, the Parade will go to Barack!“
Before it was tagged as a hoax, the video went viral reaching half a million views in just over one day, with thousands of likes and comments praising the creators.”
The video, however, grew to be more than just a prank, as it starts with a message addressing US President Barack Obama.
Calling May 9, 1945, the “day when the new world was born,” the group of authors that signed the video stressed the importance of celebrating their victory over Nazism internationally and together with Russia.
“Barack Obama has forbidden many world leaders to visit the Moscow Victory Day Parade and refused to come himself,” the statement read.
This is not the first time the student group has made their statement via cinematic work, RT reported. In March, they uploaded a clip showing a projection of wall-sized lyrics of a politically-charged song on the US embassy building in Moscow.
Recently, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced she would not attend the Moscow parade, a Russian doctor from Novokuznetsk proposed to launch a ‘polite’ flashmob by sending Victory Day greeting cards to Merkel’s administration address.
After the Facebook post went viral, Merkel said she would be going to Moscow to honor WWII veterans and victims, only the day after the parade, on May 10, RT reported.