MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. Russia these days is confronted not only with Ukrainian Nazism, but with pan-European Nazism, which is a direct legacy of Adolf Hitler, the director of the Center for Political Analysis, Pavel Danilin, said during a round-table discussion entitled Denazification Issues: History, Instruments and Prospects, held by the Social Research Expert Institute.
It has to be stated that neo-Nazism in Ukraine is not the sole form of Nazism we are confronted with. In fact, Ukrainian Nazism would have been impossible on its own. Lately, we encountered pan-European Nazism. Cancel culture is not culture at all. It is a variety of Nazism, which is a direct consequence, a legacy of what Hitler did. And even more than that, because Hitler had never thought of banning Dostoyevsky," Danilin said.
"What is happening in the West today is far more terrible in a sense than Hitler’s outright Nazism. All these smiles, speculations about multiculturalism and ostensibly peaceful coexistence. Quite obviously, Russians in the West are a persecuted minority," Danilin said.
He warned that Russians would not be the last minority to be persecuted in Europe and, possibly, in the United States.
"Who will be next? This is the key question in what direction neo-Nazism will be developing. If we manage to put a barrier to Nazism in Ukraine, it will be a great chance for the whole world to end this Nazi madness," Danilin said.
The director of the Democracy Research Foundation, Maxim Grigoryev, is certain that Ukrainian neo-Nazism is unable to exist on its own.
"It has always relied on external support - from Poland and Austria-Hungary, then Hitler’s Germany and then the United States. Regrettably, over the past 30 years Ukrainian neo-Nazism has been cultivated with direct and overt support from the United States, Britain and other countries. It was cultivated against Russia," Grigoriev said.