Russia accuses UK of wild neo-Nazi conspiracy theory
Russia has accused Britain and the West of being part of a wild, neo-Nazi conspiracy amid reports the grandfather of the new head of MI6 was a Nazi spy chief. Blaise Metreweli was announced as the new chief of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) earlier this month. Her grandfather, Constantine Dobrowolski, reportedly defected from the Red Army to become a Nazi informant in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine.
In a bizarre and outlandish claim, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday (June 28) that Ms Metreweli's appointment to the post was evidence of a wider "trend" in the West. Russian state news agency TASS quoted Ms Zakharova as saying: "Someone purposefully and consciously puts descendants of the Nazis in leadership positions in the countries of the collective West."
The diplomat baselessly claimed the "trend is obviously neo-Nazi" before listing other prominent politicians, including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbok.
Mr Merz's father was a Wehrmacht veteran who spent four years in a prisoner of war camp in the Soviet Union. Ms Baerbock's grandfather also served in the Wehrmacht. Russia had tried and failed to discredit her candidacy for the UN role by pointing to her relative's Nazi past.
Zakharova's bizarre conspiracy claims are the latest in a line of allegations made by Russian politicians, including former prime minister Dmitry Medvedev. They have been dismissed as disinformation meant to discredit the western democracies supporting Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly made baseless claims that Ukraine is under a "neo-Nazi regime" to justify his illegal invasion of the country.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/207471...acy-theory
Russia has accused Britain and the West of being part of a wild, neo-Nazi conspiracy amid reports the grandfather of the new head of MI6 was a Nazi spy chief. Blaise Metreweli was announced as the new chief of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) earlier this month. Her grandfather, Constantine Dobrowolski, reportedly defected from the Red Army to become a Nazi informant in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine.
In a bizarre and outlandish claim, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday (June 28) that Ms Metreweli's appointment to the post was evidence of a wider "trend" in the West. Russian state news agency TASS quoted Ms Zakharova as saying: "Someone purposefully and consciously puts descendants of the Nazis in leadership positions in the countries of the collective West."
The diplomat baselessly claimed the "trend is obviously neo-Nazi" before listing other prominent politicians, including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbok.
Mr Merz's father was a Wehrmacht veteran who spent four years in a prisoner of war camp in the Soviet Union. Ms Baerbock's grandfather also served in the Wehrmacht. Russia had tried and failed to discredit her candidacy for the UN role by pointing to her relative's Nazi past.
Zakharova's bizarre conspiracy claims are the latest in a line of allegations made by Russian politicians, including former prime minister Dmitry Medvedev. They have been dismissed as disinformation meant to discredit the western democracies supporting Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly made baseless claims that Ukraine is under a "neo-Nazi regime" to justify his illegal invasion of the country.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/207471...acy-theory
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
