In a video speech from Borodyanka, a Kiev suburb heavily damaged by Russian bombing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky drew parallels between the German invasion in World War II and the current Russian invasion. “A bloody reconstruction of Nazism was organized in Ukraine“, Zelensky said in the black and white video made in the rubble of a building on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation.” A fanatical repetition of this regime: of its ideas, actions, words and symbols. A detailed, maniacal reproduction of his atrocities and an ‘alibi’ that allegedly gives an evil sacred purpose, “says the Ukrainian president.
Zelensky accused the Russian leadership of cutting “never again” from the antiwar slogan by launching its attack on February 24 and replacing it with the slogan “We can repeat”. “Since the invasion began, the Russians have repeated many Nazi atrocities, albeit with different slogans,” he said.
However, Zelensky recalled the contribution of the Ukrainian people to the victory of the anti-Hitler coalition. “The country suffered from bombings, mass shootings and occupation, lost people in concentration camps and gas chambers, as prisoners of war and in forced labor, but in the end it still won.”
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