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09 May 2026, 01:17 GMT+10
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has denounced attempts to equate the roles of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
The West is busy rewriting the history of World War II, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated ahead of the 81st anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany.
Russian officials have repeatedly accused the US and EU member states of distorting historical truth and belittling the crucial role of the Soviet Union, which lost an estimated 27 million people in what is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War.
Speaking on Thursday, Zakharova said that defending historical memory is a fundamental priority for Russia. This is all the more important in light of revanchist tendencies in the West, according to the spokeswoman.
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She pointed out that the 51 nations that voted against the UN resolution on "Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance" late last year were mostly representatives of the "collective West."
Zakharova accused EU bureaucrats of waging "historical aggression." She cited resolutions by the European Parliament, as well as organizations affiliated with the Council of Europe, which "promote the rewriting of history," with the Soviet Union "being ascribed responsibility nearly equal to that of [Nazi] Germany" for the start of World War II.
The official also noted that "in some countries, the war on monuments and memorials in honor of fighters against Nazism is gaining momentum." She singled out Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as prime examples of this unsettling trend, citing the demolitions of Soviet war memorials there in recent years.
RT correspondent Marina Kosareva delves into how the reframing of the past has become all too common among senior Western officials, and what ramifications this could have.
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