World War II was not over when someone first used the term denazification. The atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich were well known and led to controls and brainwashing of the populace and other social, economic or legal actors.
The Allies raised the need to denazify the country at the end of the conflict; and as a result, the purging of the institutions and bodies, from the media to the political classes, who were forced to see the aftermath of the concentration camps first hand or to participate in re-education programs.
Symbol of the special unit “Azov”, an ultra-nationalist military formation, which is also referred to as neo-fascist or with neo-Nazi ideology Photo: sputniknews
The expression has been heard again since February 24, 2022, the day of the military operation between Russia and Ukraine. Russian officials constantly claim that their military is denazifying the country, which in their own words means that Russia plans to rid Ukraine of neo-Nazis, their supporters and their ideology. but… why does Moscow want to denazify Ukraine?
In an interview with the British newspaper BBC on the situation in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov specified that the aim of the Moscow military operation is “to protect the Russians in Donbass, who were betrayed by both the French and the Germans.
“The British were also in the front row. All his Western colleagues said that they could not force Kyiv to comply with the Minsk agreements,” he continued, explaining that since 2014 Russia has been trying to get Donetsk and Lugansk to sign such agreements that “respect territorial integrity and sovereignty guarantee of Ukraine.”
According to RT, Lavrov assured that Moscow started its operation when “it had no other way to explain to the West that it is engaged in criminal activities, dragging Ukraine into NATO, spoiling, sponsoring and sponsoring the neo-Nazi regime by any means necessary.” feeds way. , whose President Vladimir Zelensky announced in September 2021 […] that if someone in Ukraine feels Russian, let him go to Russia». “He said it publicly,” he continued.
He also recalled a CNN correspondent’s interview with the President of Ukraine, in which the journalist told him that the Azov regiment was on the list of extremist terrorist organizations in some Western countries, such as the United States and Japan. In response, Zelensky shrugged and said that they had many battalions and regiments, “they are what they are,” he told the outlet.
On the other hand, Lavrov denounced the attacks of the Kiev regime with weapons provided by the West, “just like they did in 2014 when the putschists came to power, they bombed the center of Lugansk from planes and 50 people were burned in Odessa “, he said.
He stressed that the Ukrainian authorities are “bombing their own people” while the West is “selling them arms so that they continue to do so”.
“If you didn’t want to guarantee the rights of Russians in Donbass by fulfilling the UN Security Council resolution in Kyiv, we will guarantee the rights of Russians ourselves. We can do it,” he said.
He concluded with the firm conviction that “Russia is neither good nor lovable. She is who she is. We are not ashamed to show ourselves as we are.
Russian forces do not seek to occupy Ukraine; However, among its goals is the neutralization of its military potential; the demilitarization and denazification of the country.