“Japanese militarism is revived on the pretext of imaginary Russian or Chinese threats, while in Europe, including Germany, steps are taking steps towards the reimbursement of the continent, with little attention to historical parallelisms”: the Russian president Vladimir Putin said it in an interview written at the Xinhua, on the eve of his visit to China during which he will also assist the military parade of 3. September on Piazza Tiananmen for the end of the Second World War.
«We expect the summit to the organization a new, powerful momentum, strengthen its ability to respond to contemporary challenges and threats and better solidarity in our shared Eurasian space. All this will help to shape a more fair multipolar order, “said Putin. He then praised the Chinese president Xi Jinping who – he said – “deals with the history of his country with the utmost respect”.
“The peoples of the Soviet Union and China have endured the weight of the fighting and suffered the heaviest losses” during the Second World War, stressed Putin. «In Russia, we will never forget that China’s heroic resistance was one of the crucial factors that prevented Japan from stabbing the Soviet Union behind the darkest months of 1941-1942. This allowed the red army to concentrate its efforts on the repression of Nazism and on the liberation of Europe, “said Putin.
“We are grateful to China for its careful conservation of the Memorials of the Red Army soldiers who have lost their lives in the battles for the liberation of China,” said Putin. «An attitude so sincere and responsible towards the past that it is clearly contrasting with the situation in some European countries, where monuments and tombs of Soviet liberators are desecrated in a barbaric or destroyed way, and uncomfortable historical facts are deleted. Let’s see – he added – that in some western states the results of the Second World War are in fact revised and the judgments of the courts of Nuremberg and Tokyo are openly ignored ».