{"id":26577,"date":"2025-01-27T16:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=26577"},"modified":"2025-01-27T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:47:29","slug":"how-kremlin-speculates-on-the-commemoration-of-world-war-ii-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/how-kremlin-speculates-on-the-commemoration-of-world-war-ii-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kremlin speculates on the commemoration of World War II victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Russian media outlets are widely spreading narratives about the alleged \u201ccomplicity of most European nations in Nazi crimes\u201d and the West&#8217;s alleged attempts to \u201crewrite history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Propagandists accuse the West of \u201cdownplaying Russia&#8217;s role in liberating Europe from Nazism,\u201d \u201creviving fascism,\u201d and planning a \u201cgenocide of Russians.\u201d They are also circulating an interview with Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia&#8217;s Foreign Intelligence Service, filled with propaganda clich\u00e9s about \u201cwhitewashing Nazi crimes\u201d and \u201cattempts to undermine Victory Day celebrations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These claims are part of a broader propaganda campaign by the Russian Federation, which manipulates historical memory of World War II. In this way, Russia attempts to justify its war against Ukraine, the Kremlin&#8217;s ambitions for hegemony in Eastern Europe, and to fuel anti-Western sentiment among Russian citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Russian media outlets are widely spreading narratives about the alleged \u201ccomplicity of most European nations in Nazi crimes\u201d and the West&#8217;s alleged attempts to \u201crewrite history.\u201d \u25ab\ufe0f Propagandists accuse the West of \u201cdownplaying Russia&#8217;s role in liberating Europe from Nazism,\u201d \u201creviving fascism,\u201d and planning a \u201cgenocide of Russians.\u201d They are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}