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| Zakharova on the words of the deputy who accused the Jews of the genocide of Lithuanians |
| 2023-06-17 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] On June 16 , Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reacted to the words of Remigius Zemaitaitis , a member of the Lithuanian parliament, who accused Jews and Russians of the "Lithuanian Holocaust". Of course, Jews got the most from the Lithuanian deputy, the Russian diplomat wrote in her Telegram channel. “Jewish organizations in Lithuania itself were outraged by this anti-scientific neo-fascist nonsense,” Zakharova said and stated that Zemaitaitis did not know the history of her own country at all. She noted that Zemaitaitis agreed that the Jews allegedly committed the genocide of the Lithuanian people and, together with the Russians, destroyed Lithuania not only as a state based on the territorial principle, but also as a nation, its culture, customs, intelligence, destroyed the future of the state. At the same time, the deputy said that the most painful days for Lithuania were the period from June 14 to 22, 1941. In response to this, Zakharova wondered if this meant that June 22, 1941 was a joyful day for Zemaitis. She also stressed that if the parliamentarian had known, he would have mentioned that during the pre-war evacuation, not only Lithuanians, but also Russians and Jews were resettled from the territory of Lithuania. In addition, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that at the beginning of the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, local collaborators willingly entered the service of the Nazis and took an active part in resolving the "Jewish question". According to the report of Task Force "A" of the German Security Police, as a result of many separate operations, 136,421 people were killed. Zakharova stressed that in 1991, the population of the Baltic country, after decades of what the Lithuanian deputy called genocide, reached almost four million people, and now it turned out to be less than three million. Minus a million is the result of the genocide of the EU and NATO, the diplomat emphasized. At the same time, according to the human development index, even in the most difficult years, in the early 90s, Lithuania "left" on the Soviet legacy. The degradation continues, Zakharova stressed. As IA Regnum reported , on June 15, a member of the Lithuanian Parliament Remigius Zemaitaitis expressed the opinion that in the past there was a genocide of the Lithuanian people. This is how the politician reacted to the words of Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte , who, during a trip to Israel, expressed regret that the Lithuanians during the Second World War helped the Nazis exterminate Jews. Žemaitaitis's statement was also criticized in Lithuania itself. The Prosecutor General's Office even launched a pre-trial investigation because of the posts of the parliamentarian in social networks. Also, the Parliamentary Commission on Ethics will consider the issue of depriving Zemaitaitis of his parliamentary mandate. In addition, the Israeli ambassador to Lithuania, Hadas Wittenberg-Silverstein, in response to the words of the deputy, said that his systematic anti-Semitic statements were an attack not only against the Jewish people, but also against the fundamental values of the republic itself. |
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