In his speech at the Victory Day reception of the Russian diplomatic mission in Washington, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said that attempts to distort the history of the Great Patriotic War in the former Soviet Union to divide people have become more daring. years, reports TASS.
Antonov emphasized that the more the events of the war are pushed back into the past, the more arrogant attempts to rewrite history become. The importance of victory is underestimated and they try to hold the USSR responsible for starting a world war. Antonov believes that the purpose pursued by these actions is the destruction of “the basis of the unity of people of different generations and nationalities in the expanse of the former Soviet Union.”
The ambassador noted that the Russian army in Ukraine is now again fighting the “fascist infection”. He stressed that in Ukraine, a sister country, “many people … have upended their self-consciousness and programmed it for war with Russia”.
Earlier, it was reported that on the eve of the 78th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, on May 8, 2023, on the territory of the Russian Embassy in the United States. took place The march of the Immortal Regiment.