Russophobia and the West’s “Final Solution”
Was Putin’s Foreign Minister right to compare Russians today with the Jews of WWII?
When Sergei Lavrov gave his yearly press conference recently, he caused quite a ruckus when he said the following:
Like Napoleon, who mobilised nearly all of Europe against the Russian Empire, and Hitler, who occupied the majority of European countries and hurled them at the Soviet Union, the United States has created a coalition of nearly all European member states of NATO and the EU and is using Ukraine to wage a proxy war against Russia with the old aim of finally solving the “Russian question”, like Hitler, who sought a final solution to the “Jewish question.”
The reaction was swift and full of righteous indignation. How dare Lavrov compare today’s Russians with the Jewish victims of the Holocaust?
Israel condemned the remarks. “Any comparison or relating current events with Hitler’s final solution plan for the extermination of the Jewish People distorts the historical truth, desecrates the memory of those who perished and the survivors and should be strongly rejected,” said the Foreign Ministry. Germany and France also criticised Lavrov’s comments.
Still — this was not the first time Lavrov got into hot water talking about Jews, however. In May 2022, while explaining Russia’s goal…
