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Europe's neo-Nazi revival worries Russia - Lavrov
Published: 26 January, 2012, 18:10
Francis Levy, head of the North Alsacian Jewish community, inspects desecrated tombstone in the Jewish Cemetary of Cronenbourg near Strasbourg. (REUTERS/Vincent Kessler)
TAGS: Military, Russia, Protest, Politics, Europe, History, Robert Bridge, Lavrov, WWII
With economic turmoil and extreme-right political parties on the rise, Moscow has expressed its concern that factions inside of some European countries are attempting to revive and glorify the Nazi ideology.
Russia, which experienced tremendous pain and devastation during World War II, says it will not tolerate the “erosion of moral standards” when reflecting on the grim history of those six long years that shook the planet.
"Russia attaches great importance to preserving the memory of millions of victims of WWII, including the Holocaust,” said Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, addressing an international conference in Moscow on Thursday entitled “Never again: the memory of the Holocaust and prevention of crimes against humanity.” “The erosion of moral standards cannot be tolerated when it comes to assessing the outcomes of that war.”
Attempts to rewrite the history of World War II in a way that acknowledges the rights of the hangmen alongside those of the victims, placing the occupiers alongside the liberators, are deeply immoral, he added.
Lavrov then mentioned the rise of “right-wing extremism” in some European states, where efforts are being made to transform “war criminals into heroes.” This disturbing trend naturally causes “deep concerns” in Russia.
The Foreign Minister also mentioned the curriculum in some European schools, where the history textbooks “allot more space to the deeds of the Nazis…than to the Nuremberg Trials.”
At the same time, “monuments to the victors over Nazism are being desecrated, while the invaders are being commemorated,” he said.
In April 2007, Estonian authorities made the decision to remove a World War II monument from the center of Tallinn. The statue, known as the Bronze Soldier, was also the grave site of Soviet soldiers who had sacrificed their lives in the fight against fascism. The decision sparked massive protests in the Estonian capital that killed one and wounded dozens.
Meanwhile, neo-Nazis in Latvia, another Baltic State that shares a border with Russia, make annual efforts to hold parades on July 1, 1941 – the day when Hitler's German forces launched an invasion on Latvian territory.
Speaking out against these alarming incidences in Europe remains one of Russia’s foreign policy priorities, Lavrov stressed.
"We are calling for the resolute condemnation and prevention of any attempts to revive Nazism, as well as other extremist ideologies,” Russia’s Foreign Minister said. “The imperative of the present day should not be an appeal to phantoms of the past but, on the contrary, inspiring a…common response to the challenges of a rapidly changing world.”
Russia lost an estimated 27 million people in World War II.
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BitterTruth wrote in #6 Russia lost an estimated 27 million people in World War II.Sergey Lavrov also said "Russia attaches great importance to preserving the memory of millions of victims of WWII, including the Holocaust,”But how about attaching even greater importance to 66 millions white christian Russians who were slaughtered by the Jewish lead Bolsheviks.You said again that “The erosion of moral standards cannot be tolerated when it comes to assessing the outcomes of that war.”But you fail to realize that this erosion of moral standards was the cause of Nazism and not the result of it, history often has a knack for repeating itselfbecause people never seem to learn the lessons of the past, it's True Europe isripe for the rise of another far-right ideology because the conditions that fostered the rise of Nazism is not so disimilar from those of Today but unfortunately as often happens people are looking to address the Symtoms but never the causes.You said too "We are calling for the resolute condemnation and prevention of any attempts to revive Nazism, as well as other extremist ideologies,”Well that's funny because Russia happens to be one of those Hotbeds of so-called extremist ideologies in fact many of these Groups look to Russia for support and inspiration, you know a Role Model somewhat, I don't know what is your classification of extreme but will that include Marie le pen what about Vladimir Zhirinovsky an Honourable member of the Duma.Times have changed since the Second world war, those whom you think're your enemy could very well end up being your best friends, the Real Mortal enemy of Russia hasn't changed at all, they're still the same, they once commited the greatest Genocide in History on the Great Russian people and you better believe that're not Nazis but the Marxists, the Liberals, the Godless Anti-Christ atheists in short the whole gamut of what is known as the Zionist JEW/NWO. Zhirinovski a honorobale man ? He is a Jew by his father side and is a puppet on the Judeo-Masonic regime in Russia.
Russia is a country that completely failed to investigate their Nazi criminals. Russians have been murdering their minority nations for centuries.