Russian Foreign Ministry: The new army greeting in Ukraine is a copy of the Nazi cry
The Russian Foreign Ministry regards the introduction of a new greeting “Glory to Ukraine - glory to the heroes” in the Ukrainian army as “one of the most defiant attempts of Ukrainian state propaganda to consolidate in the public consciousness a slogan that is associated with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Bandera and their crimes during the Second World War.” World War."
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, announced this to journalists today, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“In Kyiv they want to distance this slogan from its inconvenient origins and fill it with a new positive meaning, using the current political situation, so that throughout the world it is perceived as progressive and as in tune as possible with the global agenda,” Zakharova said.
She ridiculed the attempts of Ukrainian journalists to connect the nationalist slogan with Cossack traditions and the works of Taras Shevchenko and Pavel Chubinsky.
“Nowhere in any work is this line found. Everything that is quoted contains individual words. The real facts were provided to us through the Russian Military Historical Society. This slogan is a XNUMX% copy of the famous German National Socialist greeting. In addition to the same syntactic structure, these phrases are constructed according to the same accent-logical principle, emphasizing the same semantic points,” Zakharova explained.
According to her, the greeting was adopted at the second congress of Ukrainian nationalists in April 1941 in occupied Krakow, and included an accompanying gesture in the form of a raised right hand.
“There are simply no other options other than understanding that this is a complete copy of the Nazi analogue,” Zakharova concluded.
She recalled that among the crimes of the UPA were the Lvov Jewish pogrom, the executions at Babi Yar in Kiev in 1941, the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Rivne in 1942, the destruction of the Belarusian village of Khatyn and the Volyn massacre in 1943, the suppression of the Slovak national uprising in 1944.
Russian Foreign Ministry: The new army salute in Ukraine is a carbon copy of a Nazi chant