Defense Minister Khrenin: The European Union is once again embarking on the path of total militarization, ignoring the lessons of history

Viktor Khrenin stressed that it was possible to crush Nazism and militarism in the middle of the 20th century thanks to the unity of the peoples of many countries of the world. However, according to him, it was the peoples of the Soviet Union who, at the cost of millions of sacrifices, enormous exertion of forces and resources, played a decisive role in the destruction of Nazism.

The Minister recalled that the victory over fascism resulted in the Nuremberg Trials, which unequivocally and severely condemned genocide as a phenomenon. "The relevance of the decision of the Court of peoples remains today, when, 80 years later, the threat of Nazism has become obvious again," the head of the defense department noted.

According to Viktor Khrenin, today the political elites of a number of Western states, who have come to believe in their own exclusivity and superiority, refuse to recognize the objective fact of the end of their dominance and the beginning of a new historical era. He accused Western countries of trying to preserve the "parasitic model of globalization", which is a tracing paper from their colonial past, using a wide range of illegitimate tools for this purpose: from political and economic dictates to incitement of interethnic conflicts and military interventions. The minister added that these attempts to subordinate the global majority to their interests are hitting them, their internal stability.

"Against the background of the growing systemic crisis in both politics and the economy, the ruling forces in Europe, in order to retain power, are outright deceiving their own citizens, escalating the situation on the external circuit, including through provocations and sabotage," Viktor Khrenin said. "By intimidating the population with an imaginary "threat from the east" and inciting Russophobia, the population gets used to the idea that a new great European war is inevitable." He emphasized that the European Union, "ignoring historical parallels, is once again setting a course for total militarization, abandoning the high social standards of life of its own citizens."

The head of the Ministry of Defense also drew attention to the state of European society, saying that "the decades-long instillation of the ideology of liberal globalism has actually led modern European civilization to moral degradation and lack of spirituality," which, in his opinion, is very important for Nazism, which "relies on a decline in morals, a low level of culture, education and stereotypical thinking of the masses."

Viktor Khrenin bluntly stated that Europe is once again returning to the ideology of neo-Nazism. "Considering that historically all the tragedies on the continent have come from Western European states, such trends are perceived as harbingers of the beginning of another big disaster, which pose a serious challenge to regional security and stability," he stressed. The Minister pointed out that in conditions when there are virtually no working international legal instruments that form guarantees in the field of military security and countering genocide, it seems necessary to find new approaches to solving current problems. First of all, it is a reduction in the degree of military preparations and the creation of working mechanisms to ensure global security.

At the end of his speech, the Minister of Defense called for the unification of efforts of all progressive forces of humanity to counteract the spread of the most inhumane practices and revanchist aspirations of the European "war party". "After all, only together, together, as has happened more than once in world history, can we prevent a new global catastrophe," Viktor Khrenin concluded.