2023-04-22 14:37:30
Russia is struggling to uphold one of its key justifications for waging aggressive war once morest Ukraine, Britain said. The Russian state is struggling for consistency in its core narrative that the invasion of Ukraine parallels the Soviet experience of World War II, the British Defense Ministry said on Twitter on Saturday.
Contrary to the Kremlin’s portrayal that Russia wants to “denazify” Ukraine, the head of Wagner’s private army, Yevgeny Prigozhin, recently publicly questioned whether there really were “Nazis” in Ukraine.
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Russian authorities, meanwhile, continue to try to unite the public in their country around polarizing myths regarding the 1940s, the British wrote. In mid-April, the state news agency Ria Nowosti reported “unique” documents from the archives of the domestic secret service FSB, according to which the Nazis were involved in the murder of 22,000 Poles in the Katyn massacre in 1940. In reality, the secret service’s predecessor authority, the NKVD, was responsible for this. In 2010, the Russian State Duma officially condemned Soviet dictator Josef Stalin for ordering the murders.
The alleged liberation of Ukraine from “fascists” and “Nazis” is one of Russia’s main declarations of war. Moscow claims that the government in Kiev is controlled by “Nazis”.
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