The Russian foreign Ministry condemned the view of the Nazis in the Baltic States as "fighters for justice". The office finds shame and cynical similar behavior.
It noted that countries that promote such behavior, it is necessary to consider that similar actions can have sad consequences.
In his own speech at the regional conference of Russian compatriots in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which took place in Riga on 13 September, the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry on issues of civil rights, democracy and rule of law Konstantin Dolgov said on urgent dilemmas: xenophobia, the neglect of the human rights situation, the dilemma of statelessness. Speaking about your current situation, among other things, he announced the opinion of the office, which considers unacceptable propaganda of Nazism in the Baltic States.
"It is unacceptable to justify marches former SS legionaries in Riga, gatherings of veterans of the 20th division of the Waffen-SS in Estonia or demonstration, with the municipal honors, disposal of foreign participants in Nazi crimes during world war II. Consider it a disgrace for Europe and insult the memory of those who died protecting the world from the "brown plague", - is told in the news published on the MFA website.
Additionally, it is noted that the present of the Nazis and their followers, who are responsible for the death of millions of civilians of the planet, "almost as "freedom fighters" - the height of cynicism". Debt stressed that similar acts produced due to the political paradigm, can have far-reaching dire consequences".
The Russian foreign Ministry is not the first time criticizes gatherings of veterans of the SS layer in Estonia. He was often called by their continued attempts glorification of the Nazis and their accomplices, even masquerading as the realization of the right to freedom of opinion and expressed remorse about the fact that such events are held in the member state of the EU.
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