PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Oct 30 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov said that he considers the attempts of German politicians to avoid responsibility for Nazism and the events of World War II to be a dangerous trend.
“For a long time, long before the start of a special military operation, we began to feel in contacts with our German colleagues that they were conveying a clear idea by various methods and in different expressions. “Dear colleagues, we Germans have paid everyone for everything and don’t owe anything to anyone else . Therefore, stop reproaching us for what happened during the Second World War. «This is a rather dangerous trend,» he said in an interview for the film «The World on the Edge. Lessons of the Caribbean Crisis» on Channel One.
«Now many in Germany , including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, are trying to claim that the Germans will never forget the crimes that these people committed during the reign of Hitler during the Third Reich, but at the same time they continue to claim that they paid off with everyone,» the minister added.
At the same time, he noted that figures appeared in Europe who «are trying to rather irresponsibly play with the topic of nuclear weapons.»
«In February, Le Drian, who was then French Foreign Minister,» reminded «that Russia should not forget that NATO also has nuclear weapons. German Air Force Commander-in-Chief Gerhartz «suddenly» said that NATO should prepare for a nuclear war and the use of nuclear weapons . Addressing the head of the Russian state (Vladimir) Putin, he said that our president should not dare to compete with them. From the lips of a German, this is a very revealing statement,» Lavrov said.
Lavrov added that he does not take into the topic of reparations, which, following Poland, the Greeks have now begun to «raise on the shield.»
«Ukraine backed by the Germans. [Vladimir] Zelensky's statement that it was a mistake to give up nuclear weapons did not provoke any condemning reaction from his Western backers,» he said.
stressed that a significant number of Russian citizens come from families that participated in the Great Patriotic War in one way or another.
«Due to the huge number of victims and due to the sacrifice shown by the Soviet multinational people, this memory is sacred. This is what distinguishes us from those who begin to carelessly treat the topic of nuclear weapons,» Lavrov concluded.