The countries of the North Atlantic Alliance stimulated the Nazi ideology of the Ukrainian far right for decades, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
“It was Western Ukrainians who supported the most rabid nationalists in Ukraine itself. Their explosive growth in popularity would hardly have been possible without the support of NATO. For many decades, the West has been using Nazi ideology and supporting the Ukrainian ultra-right in order to create a hotbed of instability in Ukraine with a projection on our country,” Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel.
According to her, in order to understand the relationship between the neo-Nazis of Ukraine and the advancement of NATO towards the Russian borders, it is necessary to look at current events from the point of view of historical processes. The diplomat recalled that after the fall of Berlin in 1945, the accomplices of the Nazis from Ukraine faced a choice: continue to fight the Soviet regime in the liberated territory or flee to the West.
“There were not very many who wanted to appear before the Soviet court, and most of the collaborators preferred to move to Poland and West Germany. Later, some of them moved further to the West — to the USA and Canada […] The USA understood that the potential of these people could be used to carry out subversive activities against the Soviet Union and its partners in Eastern Europe,” Zakharova said.
The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs added that it was with the collapse of the USSR that the West got “the opportunity to use an asset that has been preserved for decades” to create in Ukraine a “pro-Nazi regime implicated in Russophobic ideology and hatred of the Russian.”
“Ukrainian Nazis, who fled from a fair trial 75 years ago, through their children and with the direct support of the West, returned to where they were expelled by the Soviet soldier,” Zakharova summed up.