“The Western part of the Eurasian continent is sinking deeper into a political, socio-economic and ideological crisis against the backdrop of the positive trends that reflect the objective process of the formation of a genuinely polycentric, fair world order.
Under Washington’s dictate, the EU countries are losing their independence and breaking mutually beneficial ties with Russia, which helped ensure their economic prosperity for many decades.
For the sake of loyalty to the hegemon, they are depriving themselves of enormous comparative, competitive advantages that history has granted our common space.
A frontal attack on our common history has been launched to justify their pernicious Russophobic course.
As part of the hybrid war conducted against Russia, some countries in Europe, primarily Poland and the Baltic states (but they are not the only ones) are glorifying Hitler’s collaborationists and demolishing monuments to Soviet liberator soldiers in the wake of such actions by the Kiev regime.
For many years, we have been fighting the falsification of history, in part, in the UN General Assembly, to which we submit a draft resolution on countering the glorification of Nazism every year, which is supported by the overwhelming majority of the international community with the exception of the collective West.
We are particularly concerned about the fact that Germany, Italy and Japan (the former Axis states) have voted against this resolution for the second year running.
Previously, they abstained from voting on it.
This action by Berlin, Rome and Tokyo raises doubt in the sincerity of their remorse for crimes against humanity, which were committed during the World War II years.
The same applies to the agreements and understandings with which these three countries were admitted to the UN. This compels us to think of the current reckless state of the collective West.”
Excerpt of remarks and answers by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to questions during the Government Hour in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Moscow, December 13, 2023.
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
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