The Russian Foreign Ministry has published a list of declarations of managers from various Western countries, including one of President Sergio Mattarella, presented as examples of ‘hate speech’ against Russia.
The aforementioned phrase of Mattarella is the one pronounced during a speech at the University of Marseille on 5 February last, in which he traced a parallel between the wars of conquest of the third German Reich and the Russian attack on Ukraine.
The list, anticipated by La Repubblica, is posted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, with the title ‘Examples of declarations of managers and representatives of the elites of western countries on Russia who use the Hate Speech “. The list of 13 countries, of the EU and NATO are part of the list. The phrase of Mattarella is the only mentioned for Italy.