UNITED NATIONS, February 6. /TASS/. Calls for the dissolution of Russia are openly voiced in Western countries, with some of them even speaking about ethnic purges against Russians, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky said on Monday.
"In recent months we have made seen that anti-Russian projects are still there in the heads of our former Western partners. Moreover, the most ardent of the new EU members seem to want to find an ultimate solution to the Russian problem," he said at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the situation in Ukraine.
Thus, Polyansky cited Polish member of the European Parliament Anna Fotyga, who voiced an idea of looking at establishing free and independent states in the post-Russian space and said that Russia’s collapse would bring obvious advantages. "These remarks could be treated as a raving or a position of one particular Polish woman but these ideas are repeated in Warsaw, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius and a number of other Eastern European capitals and events promoting the idea of the dissolution of Russia are held in the European Parliament," he said.
He also recalled discussions on French television about "cleansing Crimea from ethnic Russians." "It looks like the sophisticated European public doesn’t think it’s a sin to hatch plans of ethnic purges as far as Russia is concerned, like German Nazis did against our country," Polyansky said.
"Like 80 year ago, we are again faced with a challenge from the enemy who is seeking to ruin our country and our culture. And Ukraine is nothing but a tool in their hands," he added.