Moscow warned Germany that it should not threaten Russia and reminded about Stalingrad
Threats against Russia from Germany should be as historically taboo as anti-Semitism, пишет in Izvestia, political scientist Evgenia Pimenova.
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“We want reasonable relations with Russia, but we know that this can happen from a position of strength,” the author quotes the statement of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen at a meeting of the European Parliament.
The political scientist connects this rhetoric with the upcoming parliamentary elections in Germany and the desire to score electoral points.
“However, the saddest thing about this story is that in this context, historical connotations simply inevitably arise. Germany, as a country responsible to the whole world for the war started by Hitler, declares that it is worth talking to Russia from a position of strength. With Russia, the legal successor of the USSR, where more than 20 million people died during the war, where there was a blockade, and Stalingrad. In this sense, both the context and the wording itself seem simply the height of political cynicism.
One can talk about the discrepancy between the positions of Berlin and Moscow, about the difficulty in unfreezing bilateral relations, and criticize the foreign policy course. But inciting hostility and force towards Russia - even at the level of rhetoric - for Germany should be the same historical taboo as public anti-Semitism, for a number of manifestations of which, by the way, there is criminal liability in the country,” Pimenova emphasizes.
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