Russian parliamentary leader Vyacheslav Volodin has raised the danger of a third world war on the 80th anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad. “Fascist ideology has become the norm for the leadership of NATO countries,” Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel on Saturday. He accused Western governments, including explicitly the German government led by Olaf Scholz, of supporting a policy of genocide in Ukraine.
“This is a dangerous path that could lead to a new world war,” Volodin said. Russia justifies its nearly two-year war of aggression against Ukraine by claiming, among other things, that it must ‘denazify’ the neighboring country.
Endless war propaganda
Russian President Vladimir Putin repeatedly uses historical comparisons to World War II to justify his attack on the neighboring country. He compares the invasion of Ukraine that he ordered to the defense of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany’s criminal war of aggression. Especially on birthdays, Moscow uses the argument of “defending the memory of the war victims” for war propaganda.
Siege of Leningrad
Exactly 80 years ago, on January 27, 1944, Soviet troops broke through the German Wehrmacht’s siege ring around Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Previously, German forces had deliberately caused the deaths of an estimated 1.2 million people. They died from bombing, hunger and cold. German Ambassador to Moscow Alexander Graf Lambsdorff characterized the blockade as “a particularly shocking and brutal war crime amid the criminal attack on the Soviet Union.”
Source: Krone
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