Last Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrovaffirmed that the European Union plans to resume “the ideology of Nazism.” For the Institute for the Study of War (Isw) It is one of the Kremlin forms of militarizing Russian society in the long term for a possible conflict with NATO.
According to the Polish Media the accusations of Nazism with which Russian officials and propagandists have linked the invasion of Ukraine, not only point to kyiv, but to all of Europe. “We will not tolerate it, we will do our best to make sure that this ideology does not lift our heads, that is destroyed once and for all, and that Europe returns to its values“Russian minister reiterated in an interview with the television channel Russia-1.
“These statements are part of the Kremlin strategy to use the image of the USSR victory over Nazi Germany,” they remember from the US Institute. “Kremlin has repeatedly drawn historical parallels to convince the public that social and economic sacrifices for Ukraine are justified. “
In fact, they reveal that both Putin and their cabinet “regularly use the term denazification to suggest a change of power in Ukraine and the creation of a loyal regime to Moscow.” Kremlin is spreading similar plans in other countries, such as in Finland or in the former Soviet republics.
In this sense, according to the disseminated information, in January 2024, Putin said that Russia was in a state of existential geopolitical conflict with moderate Nazism that went beyond the Ukrainian crisis.
According to the international organism, this narrative could be used in the future to “justify a possible invasion of Baltic or Finland states, under the pretext of protecting the Russian -speaking population.” In this way, the head of the EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallasciting European intelligence, warned that Russia could try to attack one of the countries of the European Union in 2028.
