The Jewish Congress urged Lavrov to apologize for the words about the “Russian question”

The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has asked Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to apologize for comparing Hitler’s actions during World War II and the US and its allies’ policy towards Moscow now. Such a statement was published on the EJC website the day before, January 18.

“We are shocked and shocked by this shameful comparison made by Minister Lavrov between the actions of a coalition of democratic countries and the Nazi persecution and murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust,” EJC President Ariel Muzykant said in a statement.

The musician stressed that this statement was “a distortion of the Holocaust at the most basic level,” and called on Lavrov to apologize for his words and withdraw them.

The day before, on January 18, Lavrov, during a press conference on the results of the activities of Russian diplomacy in 2022, compared the US actions to create a coalition against Russia with the actions of Adolf Hitler. He also noted that the US steps are aimed at the final solution of the “Russian question”.

“Just as Hitler captured and put under arms most of the European countries and threw them against the USSR, now the United States has also formed a coalition of almost all Europeans that are members of NATO, and not only members of NATO – from EU members too, and through Ukraine by proxy they are war against our country with the same task – the task of finally solving the “Russian question” – just as Hitler wanted to finally solve the “Jewish question”. Now if you read the statements of Western politicians, <...> they say unequivocally that Russia must suffer a strategic defeat,” he said.

After that, the coordinator of strategic communications at the US National Security Council, John Kirby named insulting and “absurd” is the statement.