Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview with the far-right Russian channel Tsargrad, has denounced the alleged Nazi roots of the German authorities, which he blames along with other Western governments for supporting the Ukrainian “neo-Nazi regime”, chaired by the Jew Volodimir Zelensky. “If we look at the actions of the sons of the German military and the SS men who now run Germany, we see that the current German leadership has inherited the Nazi genes,” Lavrov told the ultra-conservative Tsargrad channel, the same channel that in 2017 announced that he would pay Russian gays a one-way plane ticket to leave the country.
Tsargrad is an ultra-Orthodox satellite television channel that was created to promote Orthodox Christian values, which have been on the rise in the country since Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin in 2012. Among its collaborators is the ideologue of Russian ultra-conservatism, Alexander Dugin, who He is the editorial director of Tsargrad TV and a leading philosopher of Putinism. The explanations that the channel gave then to teach gays the starting point pointed out that “Russia is a conservative and Christian society for the most part, these people want to live in a dissolute space, that’s why we decided to do this, without any hatred because you have to love the sinner and hate the sin”.
For Lavrov the radicals are in the West. The minister believes that Ukraine’s problems did not start with the Russian invasion, but “after the coup in Ukraine, when the West, instead of diplomacy, began to focus exclusively on shielding the Kiev regime, protecting a regime that openly proclaimed his Russophobia,” he said, referring to the decisions of successive Ukrainian presidents-elect on the status of Russian in Ukraine. The war was what came after what Lavrov calls “the diplomacy of lies”, referring to the lack of progress by both parties in fulfilling “the Minsk [peace] agreements”.
Lavrov was especially hurt by the fact that French President Emmanuel Macron “said that Russia is becoming a vassal of China.” But even more so with “[Chancellor] Olaf Scholz, [Foreign Minister] Annalena Baerbock and other German politicians, [who] proudly declare that Ukraine is fighting and shedding blood for European values. Thus they associate themselves with the neo-Nazi regime, that does not hide the rehabilitation of criminals, [with] battalion marches of the Azov type with SS symbols, with chevrons, under banners that are directly taken from the symbols of Nazi Germany, with Nazi symbols.”
At this point Lavrov goes on to attack on a personal level, providing information that he says he has read in the media “recently” remembering “the relatives of the current German government.” The minister says that “we have never considered in society that children should be responsible for their parents, the son is not responsible for the father, this is the principle of Russian culture… but, of course, everyone should respond with their Actions”. And at that point he portrays “the sons of the German military and the SS men who now run Germany”, whom he considers “absolute” proof that despite the “principle that children are not responsible for their parents or grandparents, we see that today’s German ruling class has inherited Nazi genes.”
Lavrov also revealed that White House officials “sometimes call” the Kremlin requesting the release of detained Americans Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan. Both are charged with espionage. In the interview he tries to convince the audience why the Europeans are the most affected side in the war and talks about “how diplomacy is possible in the face of a head-on confrontation with the West.”
The channel has presented his interview with Lavrov under the title: “Words that weigh more than a bomb”, with some questions as incisive as “how hard it is to be a minister in this difficult moment” and “where do you get the strength to believe in the good”.
Leela Jacinto, editor of France 24, has pointed to him as one of those initially responsible for “promoting his far-right ultra-conservative Christian values ??on both sides of the Atlantic.” Malofeyev has been quoted as saying: “I am the owner of the TV channel, Tsargrad. We criticize those in power. But one should not criticize Vladimir Putin. That is absolutely forbidden.”
According to various media, Malofeyev is also linked to far-right parties in Europe. According to ‘Mediapart’, two MEPs from the ultra-French National Rally party negotiated loans worth 11 million euros in which Malofeyev “played a role in unlocking the Russian loan obtained by Jean-Marie Le Pen, which financed the European election campaign [from 2014]”. Malofeyev is also a “contact” for far-right Italian politician Matteo Salvini.
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