Russian officials have implicated United States President Donald Trump of exaggerating Americas role in World War II, with senior figures dismissing his remarks as historically incorrect and self-aggrandizing.
Trump wrote on Truth Social recently that the United States contributed the most to the Allied victory, downplaying the functions of European nations that suffered greater casualties.Many of our allies and pals are celebratingMay 8thas Victory Day, but we did more than any other Country, without a doubt, in producing a victorious result on World War II, he said, stating May 8 as WWII Victory Day and relabeling Veterans Day on Nov.
11 as WWI Victory Day.We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military luster, however we never ever celebrate anything, Trump included.
We are going to begin celebrating our victories again!The remarks drew criticism in Russia, which celebrates the Soviet Unions defeat of Nazi Germany on May 9.
President Vladimir Putin has typically implicated the West of trying to revise the history of the war.Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev was among the first to respond to Trumps claims, calling them pretentious nonsense and keeping in mind that the Soviet Union lost 27 million individuals in the war.
Triumph Day is ours, and it is May 9, he wrote on social media.Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova echoed Medvedevs criticism on Wednesday, telling the state-run Sputnik news outlet that Trumps rhetoric reflected his hallmark exaggeration.Its clear that he has constantly overstated whatever, as a person, a political leader and a businessman, she said.
He does not hide it.
He relies on it.
And hes developed a fortune and a political profession on overstated emotion.In a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, Putin stated Russia and Israel were dedicated to safeguarding the reality about the events of World War II, according to a Kremlin readout.Putin has long utilized WWII history to promote patriotic unity in Russia, casting the contemporary Russian military as beneficiary to the Soviet Red Army and justifying the ongoing war against Ukraine as a fight versus Nazism.