The Russian president addressed relations with Western countries, which he says are trying everything to harm his country
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, commented on the tribute paid to a Nazi in the Canadian Parliament. “Isn’t this a manifestation of Nazism?
I’m not even talking about what happens in real life there, when people are caught dead on the streets. This was shown to the whole world.
They are not only idiots, but they are also neo-Nazis”, said Putin in statements, on Friday (8), published this Sunday (10). “This is simply an inverted consciousness.
They are ready for anything, ready to cooperate with anyone convenient, just to harm Russia. For everything”, he added, when speaking to guests and citizens distinguished with the Hero of Russia medal.
During the visit of the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, to Canada, on September 22, the Ukrainian Nazi Yaroslav Hunka received a standing ovation in the country’s parliament, including by the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
The episode, which raised criticism around the world, led to the resignation of the leader of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota.
The West is trying to crush Russia, but it will never succeed, Putin said. “At first, we didn’t interfere. We thought the situation would calm down somehow, but it didn’t. So we had to start helping people […] We concluded the Minsk Agreements.
We also said, ‘We are ready to fulfill them.’ We were striving for that. No way.” “We said it in public again.
But both the former Chancellor of Germany [Angela Merkel] as the former president of France [François Hollande] they said: ‘We didn’t think about complying with them, we signed them just to prepare Ukraine for military action’.
It was an attempt to make Russia back down, to weaken it, and ultimately to crush it. They will never succeed. Never,” she pointed out.