{"id":5525,"date":"2026-05-08T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:35:42","slug":"west-rewriting-world-war-ii-history-moscow-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/west-rewriting-world-war-ii-history-moscow-video\/","title":{"rendered":"West rewriting World War II history \u2013 Moscow (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has denounced attempts to equate the roles of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The West is busy rewriting the history of World War II, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated ahead of the 81st anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Russian officials have repeatedly accused the US and EU member states of distorting historical truth and belittling the crucial role of the Soviet Union, which lost an estimated 27 million people in what is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday, Zakharova said that defending historical memory is a fundamental priority for Russia. This is all the more important in light of revanchist tendencies in the West, according to the spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/639611-defeat-of-nazi-germany-celebrated-worldwide\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>Victory Day celebrations across Russia and the world: As it happened (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>She pointed out that the 51 nations that voted against the UN resolution on <em>\u201cCombating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance\u201d<\/em> late last year were mostly representatives of the <em>\u201ccollective West.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Zakharova accused EU bureaucrats of waging <em>\u201chistorical aggression.\u201d<\/em> She cited resolutions by the European Parliament, as well as organizations affiliated with the Council of Europe, which <em>\u201cpromote the rewriting of history,\u201d<\/em> with the Soviet Union <em>\u201cbeing ascribed responsibility nearly equal to that of <\/em>[Nazi]<em> Germany\u201d<\/em> for the start of World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The official also noted that <em>\u201cin some countries, the war on monuments and memorials in honor of fighters against Nazism is gaining momentum.\u201d<\/em> She singled out Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as prime examples of this unsettling trend, citing the demolitions of Soviet war memorials there in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>RT correspondent Marina Kosareva delves into how the reframing of the past has become all too common among senior Western officials, and what ramifications this could have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has denounced attempts to equate the roles of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5526,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions\/5526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}