Iran Press/ Europe: "They [those who cynically and openly prepared a new crusade against Russia] have as their goal, and there is nothing new about that, to destroy our country, cross out the results of World War Two, finally dismantle the system of global security and international law and stifle any sovereign centers of development," Vladimir Putin said.
The Ukrainian people fell hostage to the state coup and the West’s plans which are the root cause of the current disaster in Ukraine, Putin said.
"Exorbitant ambitions, arrogance, and permissiveness inevitably turn into a tragedy. This is the cause of the catastrophe, which the Ukrainian people are living through," the head of state said.
"It [the Ukrainian people] became a hostage to the state coup and the criminal regime of its Western handlers that emerged on its basis, a bargaining chip in the implementation of their cruel and selfish plans," Putin said.
The demolition of memorials to fallen Soviet soldiers in some countries is a crime and the desecration of their feats, the Russian leader said.
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"We see that memorials to Soviet soldiers are ruthlessly and cold-bloodedly destroyed, monuments to great commanders are pulled down and a real cult of Nazis and their accomplices is being created while there are attempts to erase the memory about true heroes and smear them," the head of state said.
As the Russian leader pointed out, "Such desecration of the feat and the victims of the victor generation is also a crime, an outright revanchism of those who cynically and openly prepared a new crusade against Russia, who gathered the Neo-Nazi scum all around the world.".
Any superiority ideology is, by definition, repulsive, deadly, and criminal, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the Victory Day parade on the Red Square on Tuesday.
"We believe that any ideology of superiority is inherently disgusting, criminal, and deadly," he said.
At the same time, Putin added that Western elites "still talk about their exclusivity, put people against each other and divide society, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia, aggressive nationalism, destroy those family, traditional values that make humans human."
All this, he said, is done in order "to continue dictating, imposing their will, rights and rules on the peoples - in essence, a system of robbery, violence, and oppression."
"They seem to have forgotten what the Nazis' insane claims to world domination led to," the president added. "They have forgotten who defeated this monstrous, total evil, who stood as a wall for their homeland and did not spare their lives for the liberation of the peoples of Europe," he said.
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