Why the Russians worship a pipe

In mid -March, Russian soldiers started a surprise attack through a gas pipeline in the Kursk region. The pipe through which they crawl is now about to be canony.

For months, the Ukrainian army occupied the Russian region of Kursk. After the Ukrainians had to withdraw from there, the Kremlin made a lot so that the Russians forgot the humiliation and shame of the many unsuccessful attempts to drive the enemy out of the small town of Sudscha.

The Russian propaganda spreads a heroic story about how Russian soldiers marched behind the enemy lines in March 2025 within a gas pipe. In mid -March, the surprise attack was discovered by the Ukrainians how successful he was ultimately, is unclear. However, the gas pipe is now almost canonized. His fragment is exhibited near temples, legends and poems are written about it.

In Jekaterinburg, for example, a 16 -meter -long copy of this pipe was installed near the main church. During the opening ceremony, the local bishop Jewgeni Kulberg compared the path of the Russian soldiers through this pipe with an « immersion in the underworld ». Hundreds of people with Russian flags and pictures of Jesus Christ gathered near this pipe. During the exhibition in Jekaterinburg, white pigeons were sent through the pipe.

With the pipe, Putin not only sold a propaganda history to its population, but also sent a signal to the West: Russian pipes can not only be sent gas but also soldiers.

Iwan Filippow, analyst in the field of Russian propaganda, states: « The gas tube is today for the Russian military propaganda what the wooden horse was for the Trojan War. » He suspects that this pipe could really be canonized or also participate in the victory parade on May 9th.

At the same time, Filippow points out that there is no real evidence of the strategic effectiveness of this pipe while withdrawing the Ukrainian army from the Kursk region. The attack by the pipeline was essentially a « meat attack », only underground. A “meat attack” is a Russian tactic in the Ukraine War, in which mass soldiers are sent to enemy positions in lost waves.