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'Terry Russophobia': how one phrase Zelensky angered Russia

One sentence by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Poland about the reasons for the outbreak of World War II greatly angered Russian politicians. Writes about this with the BBC.

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Prior to this, they tried not to criticize the rigidly new president of Ukraine, and some of them even congratulated Zelensky on his birthday.

And already on January 28, sharp criticism in his direction was heard in Russia all day long - from Russian officials, Kremlin representatives and politicians of lesser caliber.

And the reason for this was the only statement of the President of Ukraine at a meeting with a Polish colleague.

Zelensky accused the USSR of contributing to the start of World War II, and this topic is now extremely painful for Russia before celebrating the 75th anniversary of the victory in Moscow.

In addition, Zelensky openly sided with Poland in a historical dispute between Warsaw and Moscow, which broke out in the past few months.

"Instigators of War"

On January 27, Vladimir Zelensky visited Poland, where Holocaust victims were honored on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Speaking with Polish President Andrzej Duda, Zelensky delivered a speech that was enthusiastically received in Ukraine.

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Even frank criticisms of the president from the camp of ex-president Petro Poroshenko, such as the former director of the Institute of National Memory Vladimir Vyatrovich.

Zelensky remembered the role of the Ukrainian Red Army in the liberation of the concentration camp and the Ukrainians who saved the Jews during the Holocaust.

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“Poland and the Polish people were the first to feel the consequences of the conspiracy of totalitarian regimes. This led to the outbreak of World War II and allowed the Nazis to launch the deadly flywheel of the Holocaust,” Zelensky said.

He did not mention the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, but everyone understood what exactly he had in mind.

And this pact and the secret protocol on the division of Poland and spheres of influence in Eastern Europe, concluded in August 1939 between the USSR and Germany, as recognized in Europe, became the trigger for the outbreak of World War II.

In September 2019, on the anniversary of Germany’s attack on Poland and the advance of Soviet troops into Eastern Poland, the European Parliament adopted a special resolution in which it held both totalitarian regimes—Germany and the USSR—responsible for the outbreak of the war.

And the resolution provoked a harsh reaction from the Russian Foreign Ministry, and already in December, during a press conference, Vladimir Putin condemned the resolution of the European Parliament and attempts to equate the crimes of Germany and the USSR.

Putin emphasized that Stalin did not stain himself with meetings with Hitler, but he laid the blame for the start of the war on Western countries and Poland, which divided Czechoslovakia in 1938 during the Munich Agreement.

Putin even promised to write his own scientific article on the origins of World War II and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

Against this background, tough historical disputes erupted between Poland and Russia, which in the end resulted in the fact that the Polish president refused to go to Israel to celebrate the anniversary of the Holocaust, where Putin was traveling.

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Vladimir Zelensky went there, but during the speech of Vladimir Putin he was not in the hall.

And at a meeting with the President of Poland, Zelensky actually blamed the start of the war, and partly on the Holocaust, on the USSR.

"Closing closer to the nationalists"

“Mr. Zelensky is becoming more and more immersed in the ideas of Ukrainian nationalism,” said Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, who heads the Russian Historical Society.

He did not like that Zelensky remembered the role of the Ukrainians in the liberation of Auschwitz and the military unit named after Lvov.

“He completely forgets about the principle by which the units of the Red Army were called - according to the principle of the geographical place where this or that unit was formed, or, starting from 1943, according to the geographical direction of the main attacks,” Naryshkin added.

Subsequently, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Zelensky’s statement about the USSR’s involvement in the decision of World War II “false” and “insulting.”

“We strongly disagree with this statement. In it, the President of Ukraine identified himself with the very erroneous, in our opinion, point of view of the Polish leadership and stands in solidarity with a point of view that is offensive to tens of millions of Russians and citizens of the CIS countries, whose parents, grandfathers and relatives gave their lives for the liberation of Europe and Poland from fascism ", Peskov said.

Because of these two statements, the real shaft of condemnation of Zelensky by Russian politicians went.

Former Ukrainian prosecutor in Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya, who defected to Russia and is now a member of the State Duma, called Zelensky’s statement “a lesson in deep-rooted Russophobia.”

Shortly before, Poklonskaya congratulated Zelensky on her birthday.

Russian politicians previously tried to speak quite cautiously about Zelensky and put him in counterbalance to Petro Poroshenko. Like, he will be able to reconcile countries that have actually been fighting since 2014.

The Polish statement by the President of Ukraine “broke the dam.”

Treason and the virus

State Duma deputy from occupied Crimea Mikhail Sheremet called the statement Zelensky a betrayal.

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“Obviously, there is a virus of nationalism in Ukraine, and the President of Ukraine has become a victim of it,” he said.

Senator Sergei Tsekov was outraged by Zelensky’s attempt to find “new friends in Poland” and did not understand how “a Jew by birth” and “the grandson of a front-line soldier” could say such a thing.

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs Leonid Slutsky generally saw in the words of the President of Ukraine a sign that this statement was imposed on him by “external managers.”

It is significant that this position of Russian politicians was repeated by Maxim Buzhansky, a deputy from the Servant of the People party in the Verkhovna Rada.

In general, Russian politicians did not select words, describing their disappointment that the rhetoric of the new president is not as lenient towards Moscow as they expected after the election.

Moreover, in recent months, Ukrainian experts have noticed Zelensky’s attempts not to make statements critical of Russia, so as not to harm the peaceful settlement in the Donbass.

Until recently, Russia was even called on to invite Vladimir Zelensky to Moscow to celebrate the 75th anniversary of victory in World War II. Now such a trip, if they thought seriously about it in Zelensky’s office, looks less likely.

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