Kiev (EFE).- The Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, affirmed today on the occasion of the celebration in most of Europe of Victory Day over Nazism that Russia will be defeated in the current war in the same way that Germany Nazi was defeated in World War II.
“We fought then and we fight now so that no one ever again enslaves other nations and destroys other countries,” Zelensky declared in an address to the nation on Monday.
“All the old evils that modern Russia is bringing back will be defeated just as Nazism was defeated,” Zelensky added.
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The Ukrainian head of state also announced that Ukraine will stop celebrating Victory Day over Nazism on May 9, as is done in Russia, and will now align itself with the EU countries, which commemorate this historic milestone. on May 8.
Ukraine thus departs from a Soviet tradition that has been transformed in Russia into a great annual festival of nationalist exaltation in which Ukraine is associated with the Nazis and the current Russian army with the Soviet forces that defeated Nazism along with their Western allies. , which are generally ignored in Russian celebrations.
In addition to decreeing May 8 as Victory Day, Zelensky has stressed the importance of claiming the role of Ukrainians in the military defeat of Nazism.
The Ukrainian head of state recalled that 8 million of his compatriots died during World War II.
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Zelenski signed another decree on Monday establishing May 9 as Europe Day, thus joining the EU countries, which celebrate on this date the unity of the continent that emerged from the defeat of Nazi totalitarianism in 1945.
The Ukrainian head of state has said in this regard that the unity of all Europeans “defeated Nazism” and “will defeat ‘Russianism,'” a newly coined term recognized this month by the Ukrainian Parliament to designate the totalitarian ideology that according to the Kiev government has imposed itself on neighboring Russia.