Russia slammed for Holocaust comparison
Jewish groups across the globe have slammed Russia today after a top Kremlin official compared the deaths of Russian soldiers to the Holocaust.
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign secretary, said: “they [the west] are waging war against our country with the same task: the ‘final solution’ of the Russian question.
Just as Hitler wanted a ‘final solution’ to the Jewish question, now, if you read Western politicians … they clearly say Russia must suffer a strategic defeat.”
Officials have condemned these comments.
Dame Melinda Simmons, Britain’s ambassador to Ukraine, said: “I don’t think it’s just Jewish organisations that should be calling out this insufferable Russian state-sponsored antisemitism.
“It’s been going on for ages, repeatedly articulated, and it has repercussions for everyone when states reduce Holocaust history in this cynical way.”
