West replaces history with propaganda – Russian Embassy – RT World News

The Moscow mission in South Africa has rejected British accusations of ‘imperialism’

Britain’s accusations of imperialism against Russia are just the latest example of a Western campaign to revise history and replace it with propaganda narratives, the Russian embassy in South Africa said.

Earlier this week, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of wanting to create a new country “mafia empire” and claimed that he could recognize imperialism because he was of African descent.

‘The collective West is trying step by step to replace history with propaganda’ the Russian embassy in Pretoria said on X on Thursday, pointing to a pattern of events.

“The greatest colonial empire ever – Britain – somehow links Russia to the enslavement of the peoples of Africa,” the embassy noted, referring to Lammy’s rant.

Russia had no colonies in Africa, while the Soviet Union helped many African countries regain independence from European colonial powers, such as Britain, France, Belgium and Portugal.

“Japan accuses Russia of alleged ‘nuclear threats’ on 79th anniversary of US A bombing of Hiroshima,” the embassy added. “Russia will not be invited to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by Soviet forces.”

The US dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan in August 1945. At the 2023 Hiroshima commemoration, which took place during the G7 summit, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida did not once mention the only country to ever use nuclear weapons in war, while arguing that “Russian nuclear threat” complicated Tokyo’s efforts for a nuclear weapons-free world.

Japan has recently been taken under Washington “nuclear umbrella” and embarked on a remilitarization program, as part of a bloc with the US and South Korea, mainly aimed at China.

Meanwhile, the Auschwitz Memorial Museum in Poland announced this week that Russia would not be invited to the January 2025 ceremonies to mark the liberation of the infamous Nazi concentration camp. Museum director Piotr Cywinski claimed that Russia “doesn’t understand the value of freedom” such would be his presence “cynical.”

Troops of the Red Army’s 332nd Rifle Division reached the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp on January 27, 1945 and liberated approximately 7,000 remaining prisoners.

While the Polish museum cited the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine as the reason for the criticism, the US and its Western allies had minimized and completely erased the role of the Soviet Union in World War II for many years before that.

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