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Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov stands by ‘denazification’ claims, dismissing Zelenskyy’s Judaism
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Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov stood by his nation’s declare that it invaded Ukraine partly to root out Nazism, dismissing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Judaism as irrelevant and suggesting that Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood.”
The Italian information channel Zona Bianca pressed Lavrov on the difficulty throughout an interview Sunday, asking him how Russian President Vladimir Putin can declare he’s attempting to “denazify” Ukraine when Zelenskyy is Jewish.
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“So what if Zelensky is Jewish,” Lavrov mentioned, The Occasions of Israel reported. “The actual fact doesn’t negate the Nazi components in Ukraine. I imagine that Hitler additionally had Jewish blood.”
On this photograph launched by the Russian International Ministry Press Service, Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov pauses throughout his and Brazilian International Minister Carlos Franca’s joint information convention following their talks in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021.
(Russian International Ministry Press Service by way of AP)
Lavrov went on to say that “a few of the worst antisemites are Jews.”
The declare about Hitler’s Jewish blood traces again to Hans Frank, who served as governor-general of Poland throughout the Holocaust, whose memoirs counsel that Hitler’s paternal grandmother had been impregnated by a Jewish man. Historians have lengthy countered this assertion as flimsy and primarily based on an unreliable supply.
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Lavrov’s remarks got here in the identical week that Israel commemorates the Holocaust. Talking to The Occasions of Israel, the pinnacle of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, Dani Dayan, condemned Lavrov’s remarks as “false, delusional and harmful, and worthy of all condemnation.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine on Thursday.
(Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace by way of AP)
Putin’s try and justify his invasion as a “denazification” effort performs on the Russian public’s longstanding hatred for the Nazi regime, however Zelenskyy is Jewish and had relations perish within the Holocaust. Russian officers have in contrast him to Jews who had been compelled to collaborate with Nazis.
On Friday, Zelenskyy condemned Russian troopers as “much more cynical” than Hitler’s troops.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a gathering of the Supreme Eurasian Financial Council in Yerevan, Armenia.
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“Russian troops handle to be much more cynical than the Nazis 80 years in the past,” he mentioned. “At the moment, the invaders didn’t say that it was the Mariupol residents and the defenders of the town who shelled and killed themselves.”
The Ukrainian president predicted that U.S. support within the type of the Lend-Lease program “will assist Ukraine and the entire free world beat the ideological successors of the Nazis, who began a battle in opposition to us on our land.”
Fox Information’ Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.