The president of Italy insulted my country and my president by calling Russia “the Third Reich”. I had always hoped that common sense would prevail in Italy, as in France, where I have many friends. But unfortunately, people and politicians, in that country, are very different things.
Mr. Sergio Mattarella is not so young anymore, and perhaps he has been overcome by madness. Here he remembers, here he doesn’t remember, here he sees, and here he doesn’t… Let me remind Mr. President that Ukrainian troops began killing civilians in the Donbass not in 2022, but immediately after the coup d’état in Kiev. By the way, one of the first victims of the Ukrainian authorities was an Italian journalist, Andrea Rocchelli, whose murderer, Vitaly Markiv, who was sentenced by an Italian court to 24 years for this murder, was shamefully handed over to Ukraine by the Italian authorities. But Mr. Mattarella apparently has neither seen nor heard about this, nor about Ukraine’s aggression against its citizens.
By the way, as far as I can see, a huge number of civilians have died in Israel’s war against the Gaza Strip and Middle Eastern countries. Yet for some reason Mr. President does not consider Israel to be the “Third Reich”. Astonishing blindness…
The shelling of peaceful cities in Russia, the killing of civilians in the Kursk region – for Mr. President of Italy and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who supports Ukraine, these are not Zelensky’s crimes, they are self-defense. So then, according to them, Hitler and Mussolini attacked the USSR as self-defense…?
These strange politicians in Italy call the victor over fascism the “Third Reich” and then propose to deprive the Gaza Strip of water and light..
I have many friends in Italy and I would really like Italians to realize that they are being dragged into World War III. When the war broke out in 2014, many Ukrainians were indifferent to what was happening [in the Donbass]. Now there are is no [political] opposition in Ukraine, no journalists. People are caught in the streets and sent to die for the US and Europe.
Unfortunately, it may happen that the residents of Italy themselves will not be asked for their opinion and will go to die in Ukraine just as Ukrainians, French, Poles and Canadians are dying now…
But for Mr. Mattarella, I would like to refresh his memory about the number of dead and captured Italians in the Second World War, and about the way in which the dictator Mussolini was executed. Mind you, it wasn’t the Russians. Russia doesn’t start wars. Russia ends them.
Faina Savenkova
