The blocs leaders pretend to be against fascism while actually following Nazi traditions, Slovak lawmaker Lubos Blaha has claimed

EU leaders such as foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas are a "tragedy" for the bloc, Slovak MEP Lubos Blaha has told RT, accusing the leadership in Brussels of supporting fascism.

Blaha's remarks come after Brussels criticized Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's attendance at Russia's May 9 Victory Day celebrations in Moscow last week.

Kallas warned EU officials and candidate countries against taking part in the event, urging them to travel to Kiev instead. Other EU officials warned that candidate states such as Serbia could even be barred from joining the bloc if their leaders attended the celebrations in Russia.

According to Blaha, the criticism directed at Fico and other leaders, such as Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic, wasn't genuinely about the conflict in Ukraine. "The real truth is different. The real truth is that their anti-fascism is pretended," he said.

Blaha used the example of this year's ceremony in the European Parliament commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, describing it as somber.

"It was like a funeral. Everyone was so sad, and in the end, Beethoven was playing," Blaha said, noting that the same music was used by Germany broadcasts after the Battle of Stalingrad. "This is the same tradition."

"If the European Union is governed by people like Kaja Kallas, then it's a tragedy," he added.

Kallas, who previously served as the prime minister of Estonia, has repeatedly spoken out harshly against Russia and has labeled Moscow as the EU's primary adversary, while advocating for increased militarization of the European bloc.

Her warnings to EU member states and candidate countries about attending the Moscow Victory Day celebrations were met with condemnation from Russian officials, who labeled her threats as "blackmail."

"Euro-Nazism is being reborn before our eyes," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in response to Kallas' threats. "This is how the fascists 80 years ago forced those they considered 'second-class people' to renounce their homeland, ethnicity, and faith," she wrote on Telegram.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has also criticized Kallas as a "rabid Russophobe," and recently claimed that "manifestations of neo-Nazism in Europe" are "significant," and called for extensive efforts to combat the trend.

Echoing these sentiments, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recently claimed that neo-Nazism is on the rise in Europe. He called for a comprehensive "de-Nazification" effort not just in Ukraine, but across the entire continent.

(RT.com)