Zelensky: Putin's Nazi lie may show he's 'in an information bubble'
When Russian President Vladimir Putin held a pro-war rally last week in a Moscow arena, a banner over the stage blared: "For a world without Nazism. For Russia."
Much of Russia's justification for war is based on this claim. Putin has portrayed the Ukrainian government as "a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis," as "little Nazis" and "openly neo-Nazi." The Kremlin is vowing to "de-Nazify" Ukraine by force. The Kremlins messaging has been remarkably consistent on this point.
The point is also clearly false: Ukraine's democratic government has one of the few Jewish leaders on the world stage. In contrast, it is Russia's increasingly autocratic government that is distorting reality to justify invading its neighbors.
In a Sunday interview with CNN host Fareed Zakaria, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the false Nazism allegation at length, bringing up his family history battling the Nazis and accusing the Kremlin of deploying Nazi-like military tactics.
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