Russia Condemns Italy, Germany, And Japan For Voting Against Anti-Nazi Resolution

In his speech at the UN General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned the decision by the “threesome” of countries comprising Italy, Germany, and Japan to vote last year against the UN resolution proposed by Russia, “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.”
According to the head of Russian diplomacy, this is “an unfortunate fact that calls into question the sincerity of the repentance of these countries for mass crimes against humanity during the Second World War, which completely contradicts the conditions under which these countries were admitted to full members of the UN.”
The West and Japan countered the Russian-proposed resolution, interpreting the document as a reference to the so-called “denazification process” adopted by the Kremlin before the outbreak of the armed conflict in Ukraine. Russia accuses Kiev of glorifying Stepan Bandera, the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement and a sworn enemy of Soviet power who defected to the German Nazis during World War II.
Russia claims that the West is constantly trying to “rewrite history in its favor.” On September 22, the Russian public was deeply shocked by the statements of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who tried to blame Russia for attacking the Japanese city of Hiroshima with a nuclear bomb. During the Atlantic Council Prize ceremony, von der Leyen made a controversial statement, in which she indirectly blamed Russia for the nuclear attack on Hiroshima in 1945. This statement blatantly ignored the historical facts according to which the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were two strikes carried out at the end of World War II by the United States of America against Japan, also with the aim of intimidating the Soviet Union, which at that time did not yet possess atomic weapons.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the General Assembly, Lavrov said that “the West is a real empire of lies,” which “seeks to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.” According to Lavrov, “today humanity is again, like many times in the past, at a crossroads.”