PACE urges Putin and Lukashenko not to manipulate with 'fight against nazism' narrative
Photo: Vladimir Putin, dictator of Russia, and Aleksandr Lukashenko (Getty Images)
Dictatorial regimes in Belarus and Russia must stop using anti-Nazi narratives to justify their geopolitical ambitions, RBC-Ukraine reports, citing the delegate from Lithuania, Emanuelis Zingeris, at the opening of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg.
In a speech dedicated to the anniversary of the Holocaust, Zingeris expressed indignation when dictatorial regimes use anti-Nazi narratives and actually compromise them. Speaking as a representative of a family that suffered in the Holocaust, he appealed to Putin and Lukashenko not to use fake anti-Nazi slogans. The families who suffered in the Holocaust, will not allow them to manipulate the fate of those who were in Auschwitz and Buchenwald for their political, imperialist goals, he added.
Russian propaganda
Russia systematically uses the rhetoric of fighting "Nazism" as a propaganda tool to justify its aggressive actions against other countries. In the case of Ukraine, the Russian authorities have actively spread the thesis of the supposedly "Nazi regime" in Kyiv since the beginning of 2014.
The tactic is aimed not only at Russia's domestic audience but also at the international community, attempting to discredit Ukraine in the eyes of other countries. In reality, such accusations are baseless and aim to distract from the imperialist ambitions of the terrorist state and violations of international law.
Earlier, the husband of one of the main Kremlin propagandists, Margarita Simonyan, Tigran, experienced a clinical death and fell into a coma.
