Moscow, Russia, June 10
By Orkhan Yolchuyev - Trend:
Everyone knows about Russia's negative attitude towards manifestations of neo-Nazism and glorification of criminals, and this attitude is unchangeable, said Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson, Trend correspondent reported June 10.
Zakharova made the remarks with regard to Armenia's installing a monument to honor the fascist Garegin Nzhdeh, who is considered by Yerevan as the Armenian "hero" of the national liberation movement of the early 20th century.
During the World War II, Nzhdeh assisted the Armenian Legion of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of the Nazi Germany. The Armenian Legion fought against the Soviet army and Soviet partisans (i.e. with Russia, which is the current an "ally" of Armenia and fully protects it and supplies it with everything).
The Armenian Legion was also acting as the Nazis' punitive force and participated in all the criminal acts of the Nazis, including the Holocaust of the Jews.
"It is not clear to us why that monument was erected," Zakharova said commenting on the issue.
She added that Russia will continue assessing the things that are not compatible with the memory of the Great Patriotic War heroes, regardless of the political situation.
The term Great Patriotic War is used in Russia and other former Soviet republics to describe the conflict fought from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945 along the many fronts of the Eastern Front of World War II between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and its allies.