Russia: Instrumentalizing Soviets' victory over Nazi Germany

The Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic has objected to the comparison of Russia with Nazi Germany. The embassy says that the statements made by President Petr Pavel on Thursday in this regard sound cynical at a time when the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II is being celebrated.

Russia: Instrumentalizing Soviets' victory over Nazi Germany

More than 25 million Soviets died during World War II. Many Russian families still commemorate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. But today's state also uses the anniversary to consolidate its ideology.

Russia must crush resurgent Nazism in West - security chief

The EU and NATO are promoting Russophobia in the style of Goebbels' propaganda, Sergey Shoigu has said. Moscow must crush Nazism, which has resurfaced in the West in recent years, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu has said. On Tuesday, ahead of the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War - Russia's term for the 1941-1945 Soviet war against Nazi Germany - Shoigu emphasized the "enormous price" paid by the USSR in def…

The Russian Federation and several former Soviet republics celebrate May 9 as Victory Day over Nazi Germany; on May 9, many other countries commemorate it on the 8th. That difference “symbolizes conflicting narratives about who defeated Nazism and ‘saved’ Europe,” says the author. Read more

He told about it in Ether Espresso.” Undoubtedly, it is important for Russia to monopolize the victory over Nazism, because it plays a colossal role domestically in mobilizing the Russians. After all, the victory in the Second World War is the only victory that Russia won in the 20th century, because it lost all other wars. Equally important is the foreign policy role — the export of this monopoly to the outside, because the thesis of those who …

The Russian Embassy responds to President Petr Pavel's statement and categorically rejects any comparison of Russia with Nazi Germany.