Foreign Ministry warns of consequences for comparing Russia with Nazi Germany

Italian President Sergio Mattarella's comparison of Russia with the Third Reich will have consequences. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said this on February 16 on air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel .

"He has stated that he believes, and he is the one who stated as president, that Russia can be equated with the Third Reich. This cannot and will never be left without consequences," she said.

Zakharova noted that it was in Italy where fascism originated and suggested that Mattarella could not know how many of his country's soldiers committed murders under Nazi slogans during World War II.

"We gave a response, it generated not only a wave of Russophobia and alleged pseudo-defense of the Italian president. People created a special petition in which ordinary Italian citizens, journalists, public figures began to write that they apologize to the Russians for these unworthy words," - summed up the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, on January 30, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council (SB) Alexandra Venediktova said that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz desecrated the memory of Soviet people and grossly distorted the truth about the course of World War II by saying that the United States liberated Germany from fascism and helped it become a democracy. In her words, he "deliberately silenced the price paid by the Soviet Union for liberating the world from Hitler's collaborators."