Last week, Moscow city duma member Sergey Savostyanov suggested that Russia should “denazify” six more countries after Ukraine, including Lithuania. “Denazification” is one of the reasons Vladimir Putin gave for invading Ukraine on February 24.
According to Savostyanov, a KPRF deputy, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Moldova, and Kazakhstan should also be targeted by Russia.
Paul Goble, an analyst and former US State Department and CIA employee, points out in his article on Eurasia Review that such statements by Savostyanov could be written off as a manifestation of the overheated atmosphere in Russia. However, the statement has attracted the attention of Vladimir Vinokurov, a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to Vinokur, “the chauvinist and nationalist rubbish that has marked them out in the past has not disappeared”. The West is not going to do anything about it, he says, so Russia has to “denazify” these countries in order to “save humanity from the repetition of a bloody world war”.
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