Medinsky called Trump's position on the USSR's role in the victory over fascism sensible

US President Donald Trump's statement about the role of the USSR in the victory over fascism in World War II is a correct position. This was reported on January 24 by Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky within the framework of the forum "Knowledge. State".

"Here he (Trump. - Ed.) takes a sensible position," Medinsky believes. He explained that he took Trump's words in a positive way, because in the modern world the prevailing discourse is that "Russia prevented America from defeating Hitler," which is fundamentally wrong.

According to the presidential aide, pay attention to Trump's words about the losses of the USSR is not worth paying attention to, because the exact figures are unknown, complements "Gazeta.Ru".

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Earlier, on January 22, Trump said that Russia helped the United States to win World War II. Commenting on his words, on January 23, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Trump was wrong in his statements, as everyone knows that the hostilities at that time unfolded on a completely different continent.

He emphasized that the main burden in the fight against fascism and the biggest price for the victory in the fight against it "was paid by our country, the Soviet Union".

In 2025, May 9 marks 80 years since the victory in the Great Patriotic War. In January 1945, the USSR army launched an offensive on Berlin. As a result of the fighting at 0:43 Moscow time on May 9, the commanders-in-chief signed the act of unconditional surrender of Germany, which served as the end of the Great Patriotic War.