Vladimir Putin promises to “do everything” to “eradicate Nazism once and for all”
On the occasion of the celebrations marking 80 years since the end of the terrible siege of Leningrad, present-day Saint Petersburg, by the German army during the Second World War, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on Saturday to ” do everything “ For “eradicate Nazism once and for all”.
“The siege of Leningrad was unprecedented in the scale of its cruelty and cynicism”, launched Mr. Putin, during the inauguration of this memorial to the victims of this siege which lasted 872 days between 1941 and 1944 and saw more than 800,000 people succumb to famine, disease and bombs in Leningrad. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was at his side during this ceremony.
The inauguration of this memorial, which notably includes a huge statue of a motherland with her children, comes less than a month from the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, launched according to the Kremlin to “demilitarize” And “denazify” this former Soviet republic led according to Mr. Putin by neo-Nazis.
The Kremlin regularly insists that the conflict is a continuation of the Second World War. “The kyiv regime continues to glorify the accomplices of[Adolf] Hitler (…) and to resort to terror against all those who do not please him”Mr. Putin again accused on Saturday.