Putin Vows Modern Apologists for Nazism Shall Not Prevail

Dec. 25, 2019 (EIRNS)—Russian President Vladimir Putin presided over a meeting of the Defense Ministry Board at the National Defense Control Center in Moscow yesterday, and used the occasion to make a presentation of strategic importance. In his extensive remarks, Putin warned of the strategic dangers facing Russia and admonished that, unlike in chess, in these matters Russia cannot “accept a tie.” Throughout its history, he said, the Soviet Union and then the Russian Federation had been trying to “catch up” with the U.S. and other countries in these matters. But now, he said, Russia’s recent advances in weapons technologies have created “a unique situation in our new and recent history. They try to catch up with us. Not a single country possesses hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range hypersonic weapons.”

Referring to the upcoming 75th anniversary of “the Great Victory in the Great Patriotic War,” Putin again referred to his own, personal historical research: “We do not forget the lessons of history; we are proud of our heroes and remember our fallen fighters.... We have enough materials to prevent anyone from corrupting the memory of our fathers, our grandfathers, and all those who gave their lives for the victory over Nazism.”

Putin then dropped a bombshell, reporting that Poland’s ambassador to Hitler’s Germany had written to the Polish Foreign Minister in 1938, praising Hitler’s plan to expel the Jews to Africa. “That bastard! That anti-Semitic pig,” Putin exclaimed. “I have no other words. He was in complete solidarity with Hitler in his anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic sentiment.”

Putin then sharply drew out the implications for today: “They now deface monuments to the liberator soldiers, Red Army soldiers who liberated the countries of Europe and the European peoples from Nazism. These are their followers (of Nazism). In this sense, unfortunately, little has changed.”

The complete transcript of President Putin’s remarks is posted to the Kremlin’s website.