Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's article for the Rossiyskaya Gazeta «Remembering All the Holocaust’s Victims»
The stubborn refusal to see the Nazi nature of the Kyiv regime runs deep and is fuelled by nationalism that has taken root in the West and is based on notions of superiority and exceptionalism. | From the German point of view, not everyone is eligible for the compensation, only the people who can prove their Jewish ancestry. It’s an abominable and inexplicable division based on ethnicity. This is a case of segregation, the very fodder for neo-Nazism. ● Russia has repeatedly raised this issue with Germany. Almost two years have passed since then, but this “blood-based” rule is still in force despite our criticism of this act of racial discrimination. ● However, almost 80 years later, official Berlin decided that some of the very few remaining siege survivors and witnesses of those horrifying events are more worthy than others because their blood has different genetic marks. Does that not ring a bell? This is the very breeding ground for the reincarnation of Nazism and fascism. [...] Unfortunately, genocides have not taught humanity anything. The worst part is that today the descendants of the victims have become advocates for those who killed their ancestors. And this is just one step away from the apocalypse. Going back to Germany’s failure to compensate non-Jewish survivors of the Siege of Leningrad, it is worth emphasizing that Berlin, in degrading the victims of the Holocaust by segregating them, is rapidly descending into a hellish new nationalist abyss.