Some countries have embraced the historical revival by seeking to return to the Soviet victory over Nazism, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
The West is swept by a “the scourge of historical revanchism” when it wants to erase the memory of the Second World War and rewrite the victory of the Soviet Union against the Nazi ideology, the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova has warned.
Zakharova said this in an interview with TASS on Sunday in commemoration of the Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Soviet Genocide in Russia, which is being celebrated for the first time this year.
The spokesman said that for a while Russia was absolutely sure that WWII was over “sacred theme for the whole world,” many Western countries adopted a different approach. “They think … the Soviet victory in WWII was accidental and unacceptable. They think that now is the time to correct this accident, or mistake, as they see it,” Zakharova said.
He noted that Moscow was treating revanchism as “some kind of little germ that can sit in a corner and not go anywhere.” Zakharova, however, said that even “from a small germ may grow a great, terrible catastrophe of historical revival,” adding that a similar warning can be found in the 1965 Soviet historical film ‘Ordinary Fascism’ by Mikhail Romm, which became a cautionary tale about the rise and fall of the Nazi ideology and its many crimes.
Some Western countries, Zakharova said, do not accept the results of WWII and the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal. “No, they don’t want to abandon the idea of taking the black land of Ukraine, Russian oil and gas,” He said, adding that the ambitions of the West extend to grabbing the resources of Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
He also gave an example of the increase in the war against the graves of those who fought Nazism, but said the most dangerous sign of the revival is that. “they want revenge that would allow them to win in reforming the world order and grabbing resources around the world.”
Moscow has for years sounded the alarm about the new Nazi ideology in Europe, citing in particular the demonstrations in the Baltic states honoring Waffen SS veterans. It has also marked a march to celebrate the birthday of Ukrainian patriot Stepan Bandera, whose Ukrainian Insurgent Army collaborated with Nazi Germany and killed tens of thousands of Jews and Poles during WWII.
Moscow has said that Ukraine’s secession is one of the main goals of its military operation against the neighboring country.
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