“They seem to have forgotten what the insane claims of the Nazis for world domination led to”, he went further.
“We believe that any ideology of superiority is inherently disgusting, criminal and deadly”, Putin said according to the Kremlin transcript, adding that “Western globalist elites still talk about their exclusivity”, provoking “bloody conflicts, hatred, Russophobia”, “destroying family, traditional values that make a person a person”. “A real war has again been unleashed against our homeland,” he said. “The decisive battles for the fate of our Motherland have always become patriotic, all-national and sacred,” the 70-year-old president told veterans and soldiers assembled on Red Square for the annual Victory Day parade. Putin has repeatedly likened the war in Ukraine – which he casts as a defensive move against a West which wants to carve up Russia – to the challenge Moscow faced when Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.
In a lackluster Victory Day speech on Tuesday (9 May), President Vladimir Putin blamed the West for what he said was an “ideology of superiority” which he compared to the Nazi claims for world domination.