Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov, on the Fourth of July, denounced the U.S. honoring of Ukrainian Nazis: “One cannot look indifferently at how the heirs of Hitler and Bandera are honored in the country that contributed to the defeat of the fascist Germany.” His statement, on the embassy Telegram channel, was framed as an answer to a question, evidently on last week’s return visit of Azov neo-Nazis to Stanford University. (Yes, they were invited back!) “This is a betrayal of the memory of the Americans who gave their lives during World War II. The blatant support for the Ukrainian Nazis will leave an indelible mark in the American history.”
“According to the press, local legislators and a member of the Helsinki Commission spoke with the Azovites,” Antonov added. “Hence, they encourage the atrocities committed by the non-humans from this battalion.” He then recounted a few of the crimes committed by the Azov Battalion in and around Mariupol in 2022, including forcibly taking civilians to the Azovstal steel plant to be used as human shields. Those events of the spring of that year, however, were only a few of the crimes that the Nazis committed. “The atrocities committed by the Azov battalion since 2014 against the Russian population in Donbas are countless,” Antonov said.
“In the modern United States, the Ukrainian terrorists make speeches within the walls of the once trustworthy Stanford University. There are symbols, aping the signs of SS divisions, in the classrooms. And this is not the first time something like this has happened. The question arises: what vision of the world do they want to instill into young Americans and foreign students, studying here?” Antonov concluded: “The duty of humanity is to oppose the glorification of Nazism with all its might. We tirelessly urge Washington to solve this problem. However, in response, we encounter absurd prohibitions even in the run-up to memorable events, such as laying wreaths at the Spirit of the Elbe memorial.” (https://t.me/EmbUSA/3997 )
