Vladimir Putin compared the war to victory against Nazism in 1945: “Victory will be ours”

Vladimir Putin said Sunday, “as in 1945, victory will be ours“, drew many comparisons between World War II and the conflict in Ukraine. The strong message of the president of Russia in a letter to the leaders of former Soviet republics came on the eve of the 77th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

A commemoration of Russia will take place this Monday with a military parade on the streets of Moscow.

“Now our soldiers, like their ancestors, are fighting shoulder to shoulder the liberation of their homeland from Nazi pollutionconfident that, as in 1945, victory will be ours, ”Putin said.

“Now, the standard duty is prevent the resurgence of Nazismwhich has caused so much suffering to people of different countries, “Putin added, wishing” that new generations should be worthy of the memory of their parents and grandparents. “

The president of Russia also made numerous references not only to the soldiers but also to the civilians of “front of the house“which” crushed Nazism at the cost of countless sacrifices “.

“Unfortunately, now Nazism raised its head againPutin said, in a direct message to Ukrainians, that he wanted a “peaceful and just future.”

“Our sacred duty is to prevent ideological successors of the losers “in World War II, which Moscow called” the great patriotic war, “Putin said in the letter.

The text of the Russian president was addressed to politicians from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgia, the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Lugansk People’s Republic”, in Ukraine, “as well as the citizens of Georgia and Ukraine”.

In a strong message by its leader made this Sunday, Russia confirmed that the operation launched in Ukraine on February 24 was aimed at “demilitarizing” and “denazify“Ukraine.

Germany replied

Following Putin’s comparisons between Ukraine and Nazism, Frank Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany, accused the Russian president of being corrupt “the dream of a European era of peace“to plant the” nightmare “of a” brutal and illegitimate war “, from its position of” atomic power “.

The war of aggression unleashed by Putin “destroys the peaceful European order that has been achieved and maintained since the end of World War II,” Steinmeier added.

Using the marked counterpoint to Putin, Steinmeier opened the works on the anniversary of Nazism’s defeat by the allies marked by the war in Ukraine.

In addition to the events taking place in Germany, there will be a visit to kyiv by the President of Parliament, Bärbel Bas, who will travel to Ukraine as the country’s second highest representative, after Steinmeier. The parliamentarian’s trip was the first of a leading position in German politics in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion..

On the occasion of this anniversary of the Nazi surrender, German authorities have stepped up security measures inside the country as there will be – between this Sunday and Monday – about 50 calls, and some will be organized by pro -Russian and far right group.

Berlin police banned the display of Russian and Ukrainian flags at fifteen points of the capital to avoid confrontations.

With information from the AFP and EFE