Kurginyan: Opposition groups praising Hitlerism deserve no support

29.06.2021, Moscow.

It is difficult to understand the support for pluralism and freedom when political opposition groups start praising Hitlerism for the sake of pluralism and freedom, said political scientist, the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan on Evening with Vladimir Solovyov program on Russia One channel, Rossa Primavera News Agency reports on June 26.

During the program, they were showing the photos where Roman Protasevich, the founder of the NEXTA channel on the Telegram messaging app, who is currently detained in the city of Minsk, was wearing the far-right neo-Nazi all-volunteer Azov Battalion (an organization banned in Russia) uniform in Ukraine, caring weapons, taking part in parades, and other related activities.

Why the Belarusian society is not in any way embarrassed when the “boys” it supports “are marching along Khreshchatyk Street in the city of Kiev, Ukraine with torches and shouting slogans in support of none other than Hitler?”, Sergey Kurginyan posed the question.

Despite the many issues with the official government, this fact cannot justify the support for such opposition groups, stressed the leader of the Essence of Time.

“I would love to support something like: freedom, human rights, or the pluralism of ideas. I don’t want to idealize Lukashenko and say: ‘Hands off our, so-called, Batka.’ But when it all is going this way, what do you do?” the political scientist questioned the motives of the Belarusian opposition.

According to Kurginyan, there are forces behind this opposition “that are interested only in one thing – the destruction of Russia“, and these opposition groups are ready to shift towards “apologetics for Hitlerism and slogans about how good Leni Riefenstahl is and how the city of Leningrad should have been surrendered to the Germans.

On May 23, a Ryanair airliner made an emergency landing in Belarus, according to the Minsk officials. This happened after someone left the message about the bomb on board. Law enforcement officials detained Roman Protasevich after a document check. Later, the founder of the Azov Battalion (an organization banned in Russia) confirmed that Protasevich was its member. The journalist is now testifying to the Belorussian KGB.

The US, the EU and NATO are calling for his release, and named him the “regime’s next victim,” while Protasevich’s father denied his earlier statements about his son fighting for Ukraine.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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