This was stated by Patrushev in an interview with the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty.

“Coordinators of destructive activities in Russia are the US State Department, the US Agency for International Development, the American Council on Foreign Relations, and leading US non-governmental organizations,” he said.

According to him, these organizations also include the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).

On May 6, Nikolai Patrushev stated that the lie about World War II had become a tool of the Western elite to destroy the prevailing security architecture and Russia's role in the world.