She pointed out that the 51 nations that voted against the UN resolution on“Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”late last year were mostly representatives of the“collective West.”
Zakharova accused EU bureaucrats of waging“historical aggression.”She cited resolutions by the European Parliament, as well as organizations affiliated with the Council of Europe, which“promote the rewriting of history,”with the Soviet Union“being ascribed responsibility nearly equal to that of[Nazi]Germany”for the start of World War II.
The official also noted that“in some countries, the war on monuments and memorials in honor of fighters against Nazism is gaining momentum.”She singled out Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as prime examples of this unsettling trend, citing the demolitions of Soviet war memorials there in recent years.
RT correspondent Marina Kosareva delves into how the reframing of the past has become all too common among senior Western officials, and what ramifications this could have.
