Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded to reports in Berliner Zeitung that the German Foreign Ministry “has spread classified memos stating that delegates from Moscow and Minsk will not be invited to this year’s commemorations,” reported RT. The Victory Day celebrations, also known as “V-E Day” are celebrated on May 8.
“The very fact that the ideological heirs and direct descendants of Hitler’s executioners will ‘expel’ Russians from the Victory Day celebrations already looks like a blatant insult,” Zakharova commented on the article in a statement on April 5.
“However, even here, [German Foreign Minister Annalena] Baerbock and her Einsatz team are not original, but almost verbatim borrow the experience of their predecessors,” she said.
The article noted that last year, the German paper Bildzeitung reported that Foreign Minister Baerbock’s late grandfather Waldemar Baerbock was not only an ardent admirer of Adolf Hitler, but was also a highly decorated officer in the Wehrmacht.
