The Russian delegation to the 28th session of the UN Human Rights Council, currently underway in Geneva, has levied criticism at the ongoing glorification of Nazi henchmen in a number of European countries and in Ukraine.
The delegation noted that members of ethnic minorities were increasingly often turned into targets of police violence in the US. And proof of it was found in the documents of the US Department of Justice that had confirmed the presence of systemic demonstrations of racism in the actions of policemen in Ferguson, as well as a new instance of the killing of an Afro-American man in Los Angeles by police officers at the beginning of March, TASS reports.
The Russian side said that in a number of European countries, thousands upon thousands of residents have been deprived of citizenship exceptionally on the grounds of their ethnic origins for more than 20 years already.
The Russian delegation stated the willingness of certain political forces in the EU to revive cannibalistic ideologies in pursuit of narrow political objectives.
The underassessment of the pro-Nazi tendencies and connivance in spreading them is fraught with the risk of a surge in radical extremist movements in Europe and elsewhere. Proof of this is found in the events in Ukraine, where the Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera, Shukhevich and others have been declared national heroes and the day of setting up of the Ukrainian Rebel Army, which sprang to notoriety during World War II for its atrocious crimes, has been made a national holiday. According to the delegation, "neo-Nazism is turning into a de facto state ideology in today’s Ukraine and connivance in this tendency may have the direst consequences."
