Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the film, Nazism on Trial
(Moscow, November 26, 2022)
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Nothing would have happened without
external forces, neither glorification of the Nazis, or the transformation of Nazism into the current Ukrainian government’s theory and practice.
We wanted to see Ukraine
a good neighbour of ours and a reliable friend. The Americans sought to achieve the opposite outcome and to make Ukraine
“anti-Russia.”
Talk at the OSCE in the late 1990s about the need to build a security space, spanning the entire Eurasian continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, turned out to be just that, empty talk. Behind these beautiful words, what the West really means was
“either you’re with us or you’re with Russia.”
We are fighting neo-Nazis, rather than the people of Ukraine, and we have nothing against the latter. This nation is closely related to us, we are intertwined at the level of human destinies.
European leaders are emboldening the Ukrainian government and encouraging neo-Nazi acts. I operate on the premise that
Europe is part of the processes that seek to revive neo-Nazism.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made it clear that she is aware of German voters’ issues, but it is now “more important” to meet Ukraine's needs for military help.
With a philosophy like that, Europe… Well, I wish it good luck.
