West seeks Russia ‘Final Solution’: Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the United States has assembled a coalition of European countries to solve “the Russian question” in the same way that Adolf Hitler had sought a “final solution” to eradicate Europe’s Jews.
Russian President Vladimir Putin with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov being awarded the Order of Service to the Fatherland, 1st class, at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 21, 2015. Credit: Kremlin Presidential Press and Information Office via Wikimedia Commons
Lavrov, who caused an international furore last year with remarks about Hitler, said Washington was using the same tactic as Napoleon and the Nazis in trying to subjugate Europe in order to destroy Russia.
Using Ukraine as a proxy, he said, “they are waging war against our country with the same task: the ‘final solution’ of the Russian question”.
“Just as Hitler wanted a ‘final solution’ to the Jewish question, now, if you read Western politicians … they clearly say Russia must suffer a strategic defeat.”
The “Final Solution” was Hitler’s Holocaust blueprint, which led to the systematic murder of six million Jews, as well as members of other minorities.
Lavrov has caused outrage before with remarks about Hitler. Last May, he said the Nazi leader had had “Jewish blood”, drawing angry protests from Israel.
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