The EU and NATO are promoting Russophobia in the style of Goebbels’ propaganda, Sergey Shoigu has said FILE PHOTO: The Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergey Shoigu © Getty Images / Kristina Kormilitsyna Moscow must crush Nazism, which has resurfaced in the West in recent years, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu has said. paid by the USSR in defeating Nazi Germany. Shoigu wrote in Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The secretary served as defense minister from 2012 to 2024. He mentioned nearly 27 million combat deaths and 6.5 million additional deaths from starvation and disease during the war against the Nazis. Shoigu stressed. This imperative has of Moscow’s Ukraine campaign. Read more “The European elites, who are being incited and patronized by London and Paris, continue to make loud statements about inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia… NATO and the EU have launched programs aimed at preparing the collective West for a direct military conflict with Russia,” he said. Those “aggressive steps” by the West “are being justified by Russophobic fabrications – in the best traditions of Goebbels’ propaganda,” the security chief stressed, referring to Joseph Goebbels, who was Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister from 1933 to 1945. “In order to avoid a repetition of the horrors of the war years, there is an urgent necessity to protect the country from a variety of external and internal threats” by further boosting the military, developing the economy and investing in science and education, he said. READ MORE: ‘Real de-Nazification’ would include all Europe – Medvedev In late April, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of the Security Council, also insisted that “a real de-Nazification is required. Nazism needs to be rooted out not only in Ukraine, but in all of Europe.”
