Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev commemorated his country’s Victory Day on Tuesday — which marked the defeat of Nazis in Germany — by defending Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
In a lengthy tweet Monday, Medvedev, also the deputy chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said Russia would defeat the “hideous Bandera neo-nazism” in Ukraine as Russia once helped defeat Nazism in Germany.
“Unfortunately, today’s Europe and its squalid leaders have a very short memory. But we will always remember the heroes of the Second World War. Our country eradicated fascism in 1945,” Medvedev wrote. “Have no doubt: in present-day Europe, we will crush the hideous Bandera neo-nazism, cherished so dearly by the heirs of the Third Reich in the EU.”
Victory Day is Russia’s largest secular holiday. It regularly features a parade in Moscow’s Red Square to celebrate the victory in WWII.
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Military cadets demonstrate their skills during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 78 years after the victory in World War II in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, May 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Despite a threat of a Ukrainian drone attack on the parade, Russian officials have said it will continue as scheduled.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made similar comparisons between Ukraine’s administration and Nazi rule in Germany in the 1940s. He is expected to repeat this assertion that Russia is fighting an alleged Nazi regime in Ukraine, a country with a Jewish president.
Medvedev also noted that the Soviet Union lost at least 20 million people fighting in Europe during World War II. Russia has lost about 200,000 since it first invaded Ukraine last year, according to a tally calculated by the Ukrainian government.
Russian RS-24 Yars ballistic missiles roll toward Red Square to attend a dress rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow Sunday, May 7, 2023. (AP Photo)
“I’m reminding the citizens of the countries which are now fighting against Russia: over a million Soviet soldiers sacrificed their lives for peace and freedom from fascism in Europe,” he wrote in the tweet, adding: “600 thousand citizens of the USSR died, liberating Poland from fascism; 380 thousand gave their lives liberating Czechia and Hungary, over a 100 thousand – Germany.”
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