Russia’s obsession with framing Ukraine as a Nazi state serves to justify the ongoing invasion and to distract from Russia’s own historical baggage. This manipulative narrative, a cornerstone of Kremlin disinformation, relies on historical revisionism to falsely depict Ukraine as a haven for fascists. This grotesque distortion of history trivialises the horrors of Nazism and manipulates public perception both at home and abroad.

The Kremlin has long played fast and loose with history to bolster its legitimacy, particularly regarding its World War II past. It insists that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a 1939 agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, was merely a ‘necessity’ and should not be viewed as a complicity in fuelling Nazi war efforts and paving the way for the outbreak of World War II. By downplaying its role in enabling the Nazi regime, Russia deflects attention from its own murky historical actions, creating space to level baseless accusations against Ukraine.

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