MINSK, 11 December (BelTA) - Failing to see historical parallels, the European Union is once again setting a course for total militarization, abandoning the high social standards of life for its own citizens, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said during international conference to mark the 77th anniversary of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in Minsk on 11 December, BelTA has learned.
“Nazism and militarism were crushed thanks to the unity of the peoples of many countries around the world. However, it was precisely the peoples of the Soviet Union, at the cost of millions of sacrifices and colossal exertion of strength and resources, who played the decisive role in destroying Nazism,” Viktor Khrenin stated.
The minister emphasized that one of the outcomes of the victory over fascism was also the Nuremberg Trials, which unequivocally and severely condemned genocide as a phenomenon. “The relevance of the ‘tribunal of nations’ decision persists to this day, when, 80 years later, the threat of Nazism has once again become evident. Today, the political elites of a number of Western states, having believed in their own exceptionalism and superiority, refuse to acknowledge the objective fact of the end of their dominance and the advent of a new historical era. Using all their might to preserve a parasitic model of globalization, which is a copy of their colonial past, Western countries employ a wide arsenal of illegitimate tools: from political and economic diktat to inflaming inter-ethnic conflicts and military interventions. However, attempts to subjugate the global majority to their interests backfire on them, on their internal stability,” he added.
“Against the backdrop of a deepening systemic crisis in both politics and economics, the ruling forces in Europe are resorting to directly deceiving their own citizens to maintain power, escalating tensions on the external front, including through provocations and sabotage. By frightening the population with an imaginary ‘threat from the East’ and stoking Russophobia, the people are being conditioned to accept the idea that a new major European war is inevitable. Failing to see historical parallels, the European Union is once again setting a course for total militarization, abandoning the high social standards of life for its own citizens,” Viktor Khrenin said. “As for European society itself, I will note that decades of imposing the ideology of liberal globalism have effectively led modern European civilization to moral degradation and spiritual emptiness. And this is crucial for Nazism, which relies on the decline of morals, low levels of culture and education, and stereotypical mass thinking.”
Viktor Khrenin stated that Europe is once again returning to the ideology of neo-Nazism. “Considering that historically, all tragedy on the continent originated from Western European states, such trends can only be perceived as harbingers of another great calamity, posing a serious challenge to regional security and stability. In conditions where virtually no functioning international legal instruments remain to provide guarantees in military security and countering genocide, it seems necessary to search for new approaches to solving current problems. Primarily, lowering the intensity of military preparations and creating effective mechanisms for ensuring global security,” he said.
“Today, as the entire world passes through the funnel of a systemic geopolitical crisis and global tension, it is more important than ever to unite the efforts of all progressive forces of humanity to counteract the spread of the most inhumane practices and the revanchist aspirations of the European ‘war party’. After all, only together, collectively, as has been the case more than once in world history, can we prevent a new global catastrophe,” Viktor Khrenin concluded.
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