History is a weapon and Ukraine understand this: Russian presidential aid

Vladimir Medinsky was commenting on the verdict of a Ukrainian court, sentencing him and Anatoly Torkunov, rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), to ten years in prison in absentia, with confiscation of property, for a school textbook on Russian history.

"It seems history has never seen a sentence handed down 'for textbooks,'" he noted on social media.

Last year, on the 82nd anniversary of the de-occupation of Kyiv, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told TASS that the moment of Ukraine's liberation from the rule of "Nazi placeholders" was approaching.

Zakharova emphasized that today Ukraine has lost its sovereignty. According to her, under the guise of so-called de-Communization and decolonization, the Kyiv regime has embarked on a course of action to falsify history, enforce aggressive de-Russification, and the destruction of everything associated with the Soviet Union, Russia, and the shared past of these two peoples.

Zakharova noted that any attempts to erase the heroic past from people's memories are doomed to failure. She expressed confidence that it won’t be long before this once-flourishing region puts paid to the dominance of the Nazi temporary rulers, who continue to devastate it for their own selfish ends.

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