WASHINGTON Sep 19 The White House called it «offensive» «ridiculous» and «absurd» are the statements of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who called the goal of Western policy «the final solution of the Russian question» and compared it with the attempts of Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler to destroy European Jewry.
«First reaction — how dare he compare anything to the Holocaust, anything, let alone the war (in Ukraine) they started,» National Security Council strategic communications coordinator said at a briefing USA John Kirby.
At a press conference in Moscow, Lavrov said that, just like Napoleon and Hitler, the United States has put together an anti-Russian coalition and «through Ukraine, by proxy, they are waging war against our country with the same task — the final solution of the «Russian question» — also how Hitler wanted to finally solve the «Jewish question».
«It's … so absurd. It doesn't deserve a response,» Kirby said. He said attempts to apply the comparison to the United States to «Hitler and the Holocaust» were done in a «really offensive way.» Russia into existence».