Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs attacked furiously President George Bush, who in his proclamation on Captive Nations Week said that “In the 20th century, the evils of Soviet communism and Nazi fascism were defeated and freedom spread around the world as new democracies emerged”. Russia said that had insulted veterans of World War Two by equating the evils of Soviet communism with Nazi fascism. Ministry was specially angry that by their statement Bush had coupled Nazi fascism and Soviet communism as “a single evil” and thus “hurt the hearts” of World War Two veterans in Russia and allied countries, including the United States. “While condemning the abuse of power and unjustified severity of the Soviet regime’s internal policies, we nevertheless can neither treat indifferently attempts to equate Communism and Nazism nor agree that they were inspired by the same ideas and aims,” the ministry said in a statement.
Actually the Bush statement is correct – there is really no big difference between Hitler Germany and Stalin Russia. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not want to rememeber, that Hitler did not launch II World War alone, but in close cooperation with Stalin via Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The first free major campaigns of the war were Hitler’s attack against Poland 01.09.1939, Stalin’s attack against Poland 17.09.1939 and Stalins agression against Finland on the same year. One third of the all War – 1939-1941 – Stalin was most devoted supporter of Hitler – without Stalin’s help there has been no chance for Hitler to conquer most of Europe. Talking on the really large sacrificies of Russian people afterwards to fight down their former ally, the way how communist and nazis started this terrible war must be also remembered.