https://www.rt.com/news/616842-nazism-eu-nato-shoigu/Russia must crush resurgent Nazism in West – security chief

Moscow must crush Nazism, which has resurfaced in the West in current years, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu has mentioned.

On Tuesday, forward of the eightieth anniversary of victory in the Nice Patriotic Struggle – Russia’s time period for the 1941-1945 Soviet warfare towards Nazi Germany – Shoigu emphasised the “monumental value” paid by the USSR in defeating Nazi Germany.

“The multinational folks of Russia have discovered effectively the teachings of the Nice Patriotic Struggle towards fascism,” Shoigu wrote in Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The secretary served as protection minister from 2012 to 2024. He talked about practically 27 million fight deaths and 6.5 million further deaths from hunger and illness in the course of the warfare towards the Nazis.

“Right now we’re obliged to do every part to defeat the resurrected Nazism,” Shoigu burdened. This crucial has “decided one of many fundamental targets” of Moscow’s Ukraine marketing campaign.

“The European elites, who’re being incited and patronized by London and Paris, proceed to make loud statements about inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia… NATO and the EU have launched applications aimed toward getting ready the collective West for a direct navy battle with Russia,” he mentioned.

These “aggressive steps” by the West “are being justified by Russophobic fabrications – in the very best traditions of Goebbels’ propaganda,” the security chief burdened, referring to Joseph Goebbels, who was Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister from 1933 to 1945.

“As a way to keep away from a repetition of the horrors of the warfare years, there may be an pressing necessity to guard the nation from a wide range of exterior and inside threats” by additional boosting the navy, growing the financial system and investing in science and training, he mentioned.

In late April, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of the Security Council, additionally insisted that “an actual de-Nazification is required. Nazism must be rooted out not solely in Ukraine, however in all of Europe.”