“I wouldn’t speak, I would give him a slap in the face and kiss the veteran’s hand, kneel down and apologize for not saving him from this,” the historian said.
She noted that in the United States such actions would be punished.
“For insulting a veteran of even the Vietnam war, although there were anti-Vietnamese sentiments and demonstrations and there was an internal crisis, nevertheless, there he would go to jail for this,” Narochnitskaya emphasized.
Earlier, Artyomenko, who starred in the video about the Constitution and whom Navalny subsequently called “lackey” and “traitor,” told RT about how he defended his homeland during World War II.
On the occasion of the upcoming vote on amendments to the Constitution of Russia, the RT television channel prepared a video, in which Russian artists and public figures took part, reading out the preamble of the country's main law.
In particular, the video starred the participant of the Great Patriotic War Ignat Sergeyevich Artyomenko and cardiac surgeon Leo Bokeria.
Navalny later posted the video in his Telegram channel, accompanying it with offensive comments to the participants of the video. He also called into question the fact that Artyomenko fought, pointing to "inconsistencies in the biography."
The grandson of the veteran Igor Kolesnikov said that his grandfather had to call an ambulance after he learned about the words of Navalny. The UK has opened a criminal libel case against Navalny.
More details in the material RT.