The Russian authorities use the topic of antisemitism in their military propaganda to vilify Ukraine in the eyes of the whole world.
Source: US Department of State
Putin called the “denazification” of Ukraine one of the reasons for the full-scale invasion, and the state media and propagandists in their statements call for the “denazification” of the entire Ukrainian population.
“By evoking Nazism and the horrors associated with World War II and the Holocaust, the Kremlin hopes to delegitimize and demonize Ukraine in the eyes of the Russian public and the world. The Kremlin attempts to manipulate international public opinion by drawing false parallels between Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine and the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany.”
More than 140 international historians have denounced Russia’s “equation of the Ukrainian state with the Nazi regime to justify its unprovoked aggression,” calling Moscow’s propaganda “factually wrong, morally repugnant and deeply offensive” to the “victims of Nazism and those who courageously fought against it.
“To serve its predatory ends, the Kremlin is exploiting the suffering and sacrifice of all those who lived through World War II and survived the Holocaust. In the process, the Kremlin is detracting from critically important global efforts to combat antisemitism and is instead propagating one of antisemitism’s most insidious forms, Holocaust distortion.”
With antisemitism on the rise around the world, it is imperative that everyone speak out against this particularly pernicious strain of Russian disinformation.
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