{"id":41154,"date":"2025-10-09T14:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=41154"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:37:14","slug":"when-memory-burns-russia-warns-of-a-rising-shadow-over-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=41154","title":{"rendered":"When Memory Burns… Russia Warns of a Rising Shadow Over History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashraf AboArafe<\/strong><\/p>\n

I<\/strong><\/span>n the year marking the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism, the Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a searing report titled \u201cRegarding the actions (and inaction) of the authorities of Italy, Germany and Japan, resulting in the destruction and falsification of history, justification of fascism and its accomplices.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The report \u2014 published on the official MFA website \u2014 voices deep alarm over what Moscow sees as a dangerous distortion of historical truth and a deliberate erosion of the legacy of the struggle against fascism.<\/p>\n

Across the globe, voices are asking: have the lessons of that dark era truly been learned?<\/p>\n

Public conscience, both in nations friendly and unfriendly to Russia, watches uneasily as leaders and political elites attempt to rewrite the past \u2014 to whitewash war criminals, glorify collaborators, and recast the horrors of World War II in a false moral balance.<\/p>\n

The Ministry warns that this \u201crewriting of history\u201d has become state policy<\/em> in certain countries, with the crimes of Hitlerism being silenced and the memory of Soviet sacrifice erased.<\/p>\n

Particularly concerning, Moscow stresses, is the rise of revisionism in Germany, Italy, and Japan<\/strong> \u2014 the former Axis powers.<\/p>\n

Germany, the report notes, has replaced historical reflection with a \u201cfalse thesis of equal guilt,\u201d minimizing the Soviet role in victory and ignoring millions of its victims. Even symbolic gestures \u2014 such as removing Russian and Belarusian ribbons from memorial wreaths \u2014 are cited as signs of \u201ccold amnesia.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Japan<\/strong>, the report denounces the government\u2019s \u201crevanchist core,\u201d seen in its reinterpretation of mid-20th century events.<\/p>\n

In Italy<\/strong>, since Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni\u2019s rise to power in 2022, Russia observes \u201ca dangerous tolerance toward nostalgic glorifications of fascism,\u201d pointing out that she has never made a clear and forceful condemnation of the ideology.<\/p>\n

Most strikingly, Moscow highlights that Germany, Italy, and Japan<\/strong> have voted against<\/em> Russia\u2019s annual UN resolution \u201cCombating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that fuel racism and xenophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the first time in history, the former members of Hitler\u2019s Axis have openly opposed such a declaration \u2014 a decision that, according to Russia, raises \u201cserious questions about the ideological direction of the modern West.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the 80th anniversary of victory dawns, Moscow\u2019s message is somber:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen memory fades, fascism stirs.\u201d<\/em>
\nAnd the world must decide \u2014 whether to remember, or to repeat.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ashraf AboArafe In the year marking the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism, the Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a searing report titled \u201cRegarding the actions (and inaction) of the authorities of Italy, Germany and Japan, resulting in the destruction and falsification of history, justification of fascism and its accomplices.\u201d The report \u2014 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,388],"tags":[7271,8937,22000,22001,1872,7606,3386,2726],"class_list":["post-41154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-slide","tag-burns","tag-memory","tag-of-a-rising","tag-over-history","tag-russia","tag-shadow","tag-warns","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41156,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41154\/revisions\/41156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}