Europe and the Kiev regime set to sour the celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Victory over Nazi Germany

Despite the problems this might create for its reputation, Europe continues to pursue a revanchist agenda regarding the 80th anniversary of Victory over Nazi Germany and to uphold the reckless plans of neo-Nazi Kiev regime. That is how we interpret the German authorities’ decision to prevent the Russian and Belarusian ambassadors from attending victory celebrations in that country.

Europe’s cynicism has been complemented with some EU leaders’ intention to accept Zelensky’s invitation to the celebrations in Kiev staged as an “alternative” to the May 9 events in Moscow. Moreover, head of European diplomacy Kaja Kallas has warned EU member states and candidate countries against going to Moscow for celebrations, which the leaders of Slovakia and Serbia have announced they would do.

The prestige of the EU countries, which claim to be upholding “European values,” can be further damaged by the leading role of Zelensky’s regime in the planned get-together. Kiev, which claims to be carrying the “torch of freedom,” openly venerates the Ukrainian members of the Nazi Nachtigal punitive battalion and the SS Galicia Division, which were involved in criminal activities in the territory of Slovakia, Serbia and Poland. The group of European countries whose leaders have been invited to Kiev is almost identical to Hitler’s coalition of countries that fought against the Soviet Union in the German Wehrmacht and SS units. It is not surprising that commentators have described the planned get-together in Kiev as “a PR action of the Brussels scums,” “losers’ day” and “Nazi descendants’ day.”

A stark example of the crimes committed by the “Euro-Nazi machine” during the Great Patriotic War is the siege of Leningrad (St Petersburg), which lasted from 1941 to 1944 and claimed the lives of between 600,000 and 1.5 million civilians who starved to death. That crime has been declared in Russian courts as the genocide of Soviet people. In addition to regular German and Finnish units, the besieging forces included the Blue Division of Spanish volunteers, the Norwegian Waffen-SS Legion, the Dutch Volunteer Legion Netherlands and the Latvian Legion of Waffen SS. The latter acted especially ruthlessly, committing atrocities in the Pskov Region, Belarus and Poland, where they did what the Ukrainian Nazis did in Khatyn in Byelorussia. In February 1945, the Latvian legionnaires and German troops burned alive the captured Polish soldiers of the 1st Tadeusz Kosciuszko Infantry Division of the Polish army in the village of Podgaje, Poland. 

In November 1941, the Flemish Legion of Waffen SS was deployed near Leningrad. Another Belgian unit, the 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Wallonia fought near Dnepropetrovsk. The Free Corps Denmark, whose criminal history began near Velikiye Luki, was later incorporated into the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf (Death’s Head Division). The Estonian Legion, which was established in October 1942 and later reformed as the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division (1st Estonian), committed atrocities in the area of Polotsk, Nevel, Idritsa and Sebezh. Overall, about 60,000 compatriots of Kaja Kallas served in the German Army and SS units. Croatian volunteer units fought on Hitler’s side on the Dnieper and near Mariupol. The 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) mercilessly executed Serbs, Jews and partisans in the Balkans. The 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) is remembered for similar atrocities. 

Romania was one of the main allies of Nazi Germany. By August 1942, there were nearly 700,000 Romanian troops on the Eastern Front. Over 200,000 of them perished in the battles of Stalingrad, Odessa, Sevastopol and Donbass. Over 94,000 soldiers of another German ally, Italy, met their end near Nikolayev, Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, on the Don, and in Stalingrad.

The Legion of French Volunteers (LVF or the 638th Infantry Regiment), which was established by an agreement between Hitler and the collaborationist government of Philippe Petain, lost 75 percent of its combat personnel in the battle of Moscow in the winter of 1941. During the war, 23,136 French legionnaires were  taken prisoner by the Soviet army. 

Emmanuel Macron’s calls for a new “crusade” against Russia sound especially hypocritically against that historical background. The prestige of the French president, who accused Moscow of annexing Ukrainian territories, has been further marred by a recent scandal involving the French ambassador to the Netherlands and the speaker of the Dutch Parliament, who discussed diving Belgium into Flanders, which Amsterdam would take over, and Wallonia, which would go to France.

These shameful facts constitute a striking backdrop for the lies and hysterics of liberal European politicians, who describe the Ukrainian conflict as an “existential battle between good and evil,” and Russia’s measures to ensure its security as preparations for attacking NATO countries.