MOSCOW, October 22. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has slammed in German criticism of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder that currently occur in Germany.

Putin noted in an interview for the "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" program on Rossiya-1 TV channel that everyone witnessed "an outrageous crack" in the form of applause to a Nazi in the Canadian parliament not long ago.

"As far as the former Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schroeder is concerned <..> I would like to say that the further from Schroeder the closer to Anthony Rota, head of the Canadian parliament, who sympathizes with the Nazi," according to an excerpt of the interview published by journalist Pavel Zarubin on his Telegram channel. Putin who meant the former Speaker of the House of Commons of the Canadian Parliament, also repeated the phrase in German "for those in Germany to hear him." "In Germany there are a lot of decent people and I am sure many will hear it," he added in Russian.