“The West has declared a total war on us, on the Russian World. Nobody makes any secret of this,' Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.
— dragged Russia into a dispute with Israel over the Holocaust. Russia believes that Ukraine is rife with neo-Nazis, a claim that is not supported by evidence and is further weakened by the fact that its elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish. Lavrov bizarrely compared Zelensky to European Jews he claimed aided their own Nazi tormentors during the Holocaust.
, in what appeared to be an effort to appeal to Western conservatives who have made similar complaints in the United States, the United Kingdom and France, among other nations. Some pro-Putin figures, like the classical music conductor Valery Gergiev, have indeed lost commissions because of their political stances, but there has been no effort to expurgate classic works of literature and art,The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Valery Gergiev in Munich in 2021.
“We must realize that it has exposed the West’s real attitude to the beautiful slogans that were put forward 30 years ago after the end of the Cold War,” the foreign minister said, “the calls for universal humanitarian values, for building a common European home from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Now we can see the real worth of these fine words.". “It’s an interesting return to some pretty hyped up rhetoric,” Garner told Yahoo News in a text message.
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