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@RusEmbMalta Press Release The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has published a new analytical report entitled “On the actions (or inaction) of the authorities of Italy, Germany and Japan that lead to the destruction and falsification of history and the justification of fascism and its accomplices.” 📄 Full text available on the official MFA website (PDF). 🕯80 Years After Victory: Are the Lessons of WWII Being Forgotten? In the year marking the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory in the Second World War, many people in Russia and abroad are asking a legitimate question: Have the lessons of the struggle against Nazism, Fascism and militarism truly been learned? Public opinion – both in friendly and unfriendly states – increasingly witnesses dangerous attempts by modern political elites to: 🔹distort and rewrite the history of World War II, 🔹revise its outcomes, 🔹whitewash war criminals who created and implemented the ideology of racial superiority, 🔹glorify collaborators who assisted Nazi Germany. 🔹 Silence About Crimes, Promotion of Revisionism In a number of countries, the crimes of Hitlerism are deliberately downplayed or silenced, while the glorification of Nazism and the rewriting of WWII history is gradually becoming an element of state policy. Particularly alarming is that such destructive trends are most visible in Germany, Italy and Japan – the founding members of the aggressive Axis bloc, against which the Anti-Hitler Coalition fought during the war. 🇩🇪Germany: Selective Memory and Revanchist Narratives Revisionist tendencies in Germany continue to intensify. A false narrative assigning “equal responsibility” to two so-called “totalitarian regimes” for unleashing WWII has become a mainstream element of German memory culture. The results of the post-war settlement are increasingly targeted by official discourse. The process of acknowledging Nazi crimes has largely been narrowed to the topic of the Holocaust, while the memory of Soviet victims is deliberately marginalised. A telling example: German law-enforcement authorities found no violation in the actions of the administration of the former Nazi concentration camp Dachau, which ordered staff to remove Russian and Belarusian national ribbon colours from wreaths laid during the 80th Victory anniversary ceremony. 🇯🇵Japan: Persistent Historical Revisionism Modern Japan continues to insist on distorted interpretations of key mid-20th century events that determined the fate of humanity, revealing the revanchist core of its policy. 🇮🇹Italy: Tolerance Towards Apologetics of Fascism Since the formation of a right-of-centre government headed by Giorgia Meloni in October 2022, Italy has seen a growing tolerance from the authorities toward the apologetics of Fascist-era “values” and even public displays of Fascist symbols and rituals. Notably, during her time in office, the Prime Minister has never once issued a clear and unequivocal condemnation of Fascism. ❌Axis States Voting Against UN Resolution on Combating Nazism Since 2022, Germany, Italy and Japan have voted against the annual UN General Assembly resolution submitted by Russia and co-authors: “Combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.” This marks the first time in history that the former Axis powers openly voted against a document condemning the glorification of Nazism and forms of racial discrimination. The fact that these countries – directly responsible for the deaths of tens of millions – now reject a resolution aimed at preventing the resurgence of Nazism raises profound concerns about the ideological processes underway in these states and across the broader Western world. It is also evident that these governments have chosen to ignore the obligations they assumed upon joining the United Nations.