Contrary to expectations, Nazism, defeated during the Second World War, did not disappear; it only lay hidden for many decades. In some countries, the direct heirs of former SS men, punishers, policemen and ideological followers of Nazi ideas managed to instill their ideas in a certain part of society. This was stated in the speech of South Ossetian President Alan Gagloev at the Victory Parade in Tskhinval.
He has noted that after the victorious end of the war in May 1945, after the international tribunal that handed down harsh sentences to Nazi criminals, it seemed that the lesson humanity had learned was enough to prevent anyone from thinking of reviving Nazism in any of its forms.
“A generation that did not know the horrors of war and the difficulties of post-war reconstruction considered peace a natural blessing, and the danger of new large-scale wars seemed far-fetched,” the head of state noted.
However, clear manifestations of the bestial, cannibalistic essence of such an ideology were the brutal massacres of Ossetians by Georgian militants, and later the widely publicized crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine by the latter-day descendants of Stepan Bandera.
“Who would have thought that the great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren of the soldiers who defeated Nazi Germany would have to fight against the Nazis and defend their compatriots on the soil of Donbass from Nazi aggression! Who could imagine that Western tanks with fascist crosses on their armor would again appear in the steppes of Zaporozhye,” the President has noted.
