The Western powers turned the post-war process into a farce, the former Russian president has said

The process of ridding German society and Europe of Nazi ideology was never completed, the head of the Russian Security Council and former president, Dmitry Medvedev, wrote in an article ahead of the 81st anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany.

Moscow has long accused the West of pursuing historical revanchism and seeking to erase the memory of World War II and rewrite the Soviet victory over Nazism.

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said last year that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in particular harbors a "maniacal drive for revenge" against Russia based on Nazi-era grievances.

"The Federal Republic of Germany has seen no real denazification. Archival materials of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, including a reference on the political situation in West Germany from 1952, convincingly show that instead of its implementation, 'the Western powers followed the path of justifying Nazi war criminals,'" Medvedev wrote.

Some Western countries still do not accept the results of World War II and the rulings of the Nuremberg Tribunal, thinking that the Soviet victory was an "accident or a mistake" that needs to be rectified, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said last month.

Medvedev argued that the West kept the bearers of Nazi ideology alive for their descendants to continue wreaking havoc.

"The entire process, carried out with much ado, turned into an empty farce, with the exception of the liquidation of notorious pro-fascist organizations and the purification of public spaces.

"The Anglo-Saxons, trying to preserve the former leaders of Hitler's military economy and major Nazis they needed, campaigned under the slogan 'hang the small ones - acquit the big ones,'" Medvedev said in the article, soon to be published on RT.