“My Nazi grandfather was killed by Russian partisans. Now I don’t like Russia” – Member of the Bundestag
European politicians' dislike of Russia stems from the Soviet Union's decision to resist Nazi Germany. This was stated by Latvian-German Social Democratic Party MP Zanda Martens during her speech in the Bundestag, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“I think about Europe, and then I see myself as a child in Latvia, sitting with my grandmother on the kitchen table. Latvia was occupied by the Nazis in 1940 until the Russians arrived in 1944. From my grandmother's stories, I only remember advice as bad guys.
"I only later realized my grandfather was the chief of the village police. But in 1944, the entire family fled to the West, hoping to make it to Sweden. My grandfather, even during the escape, didn't take off his Nazi uniform and was shot by Russian partisans at the edge of a forest , right before my grandmother's eyes. He was buried anonymously at the same forest edge," the deputy said.
"My grandmother lived in the Latvian Soviet Republic, and in the first years after the war, she had to tell a well-thought-out story about where my grandfather remained. And documents about his work during the Nazi era are well hidden . In the Latvian narrative, the Russians weren't liberators. They were the next occupiers. People are still convinced of this, and they fear that something similar could happen again," the politician concluded.
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