"Concourses of unbeaten punishers": Putin at the Victory Parade said about evidence of attempts to rewrite history

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the world continues to try to justify the crimes of the Nazis.

He spoke about this while speaking at the Victory Parade in Moscow. 

The Russian leader recalled that almost a century has passed since the moment when in Europe "the monstrous Nazi beast became impudent and gained predatory power."

“The slogans of racial and national superiority, anti-Semitism and Russophobia sounded more and more cynical.

Agreements designed to stop the slide towards world war were easily crossed out, ”the President noted.

Vladimir Putin stressed that history requires drawing conclusions and drawing lessons.

“But, unfortunately, many of the ideology of the Nazis, those who were obsessed with the delusional theory of their exclusivity, are again trying to put into service,” he said.

The President explained that this is not only about radicals and international terrorists.

“Today we see gatherings of unbeaten punishers and their followers, attempts to rewrite history, to justify traitors and criminals, on whose hands the blood of hundreds of thousands of civilians,” Putin said.

The head of state recalled that it was the Soviet people who won an unconditional victory over Nazism, defended the Motherland and liberated the countries of Europe from the "brown plague".

He also stressed that Russia consistently defends international law, but will firmly defend its national interests and ensure the security of its people. 

“Reliable guarantees of this are the valiant armed forces of Russia, the heirs of the soldiers of Victory.

And of course, our joint work for the development of the country, for the welfare of Russian families, ”Putin added.

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In turn, the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov, explaining the words of the president about the "unfinished punishers" in a conversation with the radio station "Moscow speaking", drew attention to the fact that in some countries manifestations of neo-Nazism are quite obvious. 

“It's not a secret for anyone that neo-Nazis are raising their heads more and more in European countries, and Europeans are fighting them.

Of course, this is unacceptable for our country.

In Ukraine, in some Baltic countries, indeed, we also see the same neo-Nazis.

"Galicia", which marched in Kiev quite recently, "- said Peskov.

At the end of April, the so-called "March of embroidered shirts" took place in Kiev, in which supporters of the SS "Galicia" division took part.

The division was created in 1943 and included Ukrainian nationalists.

Victory Day in World War II is celebrated all over the world.

At the same time, Moscow has repeatedly drawn attention to the attempts of a number of foreign countries to rewrite history.

In particular, in 2020, the White House in its official Instagram account stated that the United States and Great Britain won the victory over Nazism, but did not mention the contribution of the Soviet Union to the Victory.

The Federation Council then noted that such a position can also be an instrument of US foreign policy.

"Such an interpretation, where the Soviet Union does not exist, is a kind of element of the internal struggle between supporters and opponents of the US rapprochement with modern Russia," explained Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Federation Council's foreign affairs committee. 

And on the eve, on May 8, the President of Latvia Egils Levits, after the ceremony of laying flowers and wreaths at the Bratsk cemetery in Riga, said that the Second World War was "alien" for his country.

In addition, the Latvian police on Sunday blocked direct access to the monument to Soviet soldiers - the liberators of Riga from the Nazi invaders.

Residents of the republic, who came to the monument in the morning to lay flowers and wreaths, had to leave them on specially set tables so that volunteers could take them to the monument, the TASS correspondent reported.

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated about the inadmissibility of distorting the historical memory of the course and results of the Great Patriotic War and the role of the USSR.

So, in December 2019, the president sharply criticized the European Parliament's resolution "On the importance of preserving historical memory for the future of Europe", in which the Soviet-German non-aggression pact of 1939 declared the cause of World War II.

Putin noted that the resolution actually "put the Nazi aggressors and the Soviet Union on a par."  

“The USSR, along with Nazi Germany, is almost accused of unleashing the Second World War.

As if they forgot who attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, ”the president recalled.

Later, during an informal meeting of the heads of the CIS states, Vladimir Putin noted that Western countries deliberately keep silent about the Second World War in an attempt to shift the blame for its beginning from the Nazis to the Communists, thus trying to hide the inconvenient moments of their own history.

In June 2020, Putin wrote an article on World War II that was published in The National Interest. The Russian leader emphasized the decisive role of the USSR in the defeat of Nazism and again drew attention to the dangerous attempts of the West to revise the results of the Second World War.