Zakharova called the expulsion of the Russian Federation from events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in Germany an insult.

The expulsion of Russia and Belarus from the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory in World War II in Germany is a blatant insult. This was announced on April 5 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

She commented on the publication of the Berliner Zeitung newspaper with reference to a document from the German Foreign Ministry, which states that inviting Russian and Belarusian representatives to celebrate events of federal, regional and local significance is not allowed. It was noted that institutions can also exercise "the right of expulsion at their discretion."

"The fact that the ideological heirs and direct descendants of Hitler's executioners will "expel" Russians from Victory celebrations already looks like a blatant insult," she wrote on the Telegram channel.

Zakharova clarified that German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock and her staff continue to "recreate the inhuman practices used by the Nazis." According to her, the expulsion of Russians, Belarusians and former Soviet citizens, including Jews, from the events can be called the revival of Nazism.

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On March 31, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called for a tough fight against the rewriting of history by the European Union (EU) countries. He stressed that in some EU states, the criminals convicted by the Nuremberg Tribunal are being equalized with those who liberated Europe from fascism.

Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, said on March 26 that EU countries were trying to rewrite the history of the twentieth century so that the younger generation would believe that Russia was not the victor of Nazism in World War II. According to him, the EU states have adopted the propaganda techniques of the Third Reich.