Zakharova criticized the visit of the Canadian Ambassador to Piskarevskoye cemetery

The visit of the Canadian Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Sarah Taylor, to the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg is not an outburst of compassion, but a mocking performance. This was announced on March 22 by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova.

"Behind all this, not just ostentatious empathy, but mocking performance, there was a very specific goal — to post a comment on her social networks," she wrote on her Telegram channel.

Zakharova pointed to Taylor's publication, according to which the siege of Leningrad is allegedly connected with the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Yalta Conference. Commenting on the words of the Canadian ambassador, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry accused Taylor of blasphemy and urged her to learn history.

"She will have to be reminded that the starting point of the events that eventually led to the outbreak of World War II was the Munich agreement, in which Britain, which heads the Commonwealth of Nations, which includes Canada, participated," Zakharova concluded.

In January, Zakharova called the closure of the Russian part of the exhibition at the museum of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (Auschwitz) following the general course of Western countries to rewrite history. According to her, the rewriting of history is now taking place in a more technological way, which makes it possible not to burn books and close museums.