Updated 8 May, 2026 20:50
Spokeswoman of Russian MFA Maria Zacharov. © Sputnik / Yuri Kochetkov
The West is rewriting the past of planet War II – said Russian MFA spokesperson Maria Zacharowa on the eve of the 81st anniversary of the triumph over Nazi Germany.
Russian officials have repeatedly accused the US and EU associate States of falsifying historical fact and depreciating the key function of the russian Union, which, according to estimates, lost 27 million people in the conflict known in Russia as the large Patriotic War.
Speaking on Thursday, Zacharova stated that the defence of historical memory is simply a fundamental precedence for Russia.
According to the spokeswoman, this is all the more crucial in the light of the rematch tendencies observed in the West.
It pointed out that 51 countries that voted against the UN resolution at the end of last year on ‘to combat the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and another practices that contribute to the fuelling of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and associated intolerance’, represented mostly the so-called. "Collective West".
Zacharova accused EU bureaucrats of leading ‘historical aggression’.
In this context, she cited resolutions of the European Parliament, as well as organisations affiliated to the Council of Europe, which, in her opinion, "promoting past rewriting", attributing to the russian Union "a liability almost equal to that of [Nazi] Germany" To the outbreak of planet War II.
The Russian MFA besides noted that “in any countries, the war declared to monuments and memorial sites commemorating militants fighting Nazism is gaining momentum”.
As main examples of this worrying trend, she pointed to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, recalling cases of demolition of russian war memorials there in fresh years.
RT correspondent Marina Kosareva analyses how the reinterpretation of the past has become a very common phenomenon among high-ranking Western officials and what consequences this may have.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/russia/639653-west-rewriting-world-war-two-history-Russian-fm/
