The Press Bureau of the External Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia published an insightful analytical article, drawing on many historical parallels. One thing that they have not explicitly stated, though, is that the USA is once again, just like in 1944, inserting itself as a solution to the problem they contributed to create in the first place – we shall not forget Nuland’s cookies of 2014!

The article is opened by a caricature, which is a modern variation of the well-known War-time “TASS Window” (see our article The “TASS Windows” – the windows to our struggle in the Great Patriotic War), which appeared after the… allies deigned to open the second front.

The Hour Draws Near
The merciless, fearsome punishment
Shall not escape the German squid
The monster can expect the blows
Coming from here and there.
Artist: M. Cheremnych, verse by Demyan Bedny.

UPDATE 20.04.2025: We have replaced our translated text with the official translation that appeared at the Telegram channel of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The original text in Russian is at the site of the SVR.

Eurofascism is Moscow’s and Washington’s common enemy, just like 80 years ago

– The Press Bureau of the SVR of Russia, April 16, 2025

A hind-sight study of Western states’ policies attests to Europe’s “traditional propensity” for various forms of totalitarianism which regularly produces cataclysmic global conflicts. Specialists believe that the current rift in relations between the United States and the EU countries who blame Donald Trump for totalitarianism in the context of the upcoming 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War is becoming a factor that contributes to an alliance of convenience between Moscow and Washington the way it used to occur in the past.

This is confirmed, in particular, by a scandal involving French European Parliament member Raphael Glucksmann who demanded that the Americans “who have chosen to side with the tyrants,” return the statue of Liberty, Paris’s gift to the United States. Raphael Glucksmann, one of the globalists and a dedicated supporter of the Kiev regime, criticises the Oval Office master for slacking support for Ukraine and firing civil servants who stick to liberal views. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the “daring Gaul” having reminded that “unnamed low-level French politician” that it’s only because of the United States of America that he is speaking French and not German now.

It was pointed out that the multiple dictatorial regimes that were in power in France “distinguished” themselves by unparalleled cruelty and atrocities. Among those mentioned are the Jacobin dictatorship that killed thousands of French citizens in 1793-1794 and imprisoned 300,000 on suspicion of “counterrevolution,” as well as Napoleon’s bloody acts. It was stressed that America is free thanks to their ancestors’ readiness to counter such dictatorships as the British monarchy or the Jacobin revolution.

Experts believe that the notion of Eurofascism was introduced by French author and columnist Pierre Drieu La Rochelle who collaborated with German occupational authorities during WWII, and justified it as an ideology inherent not only in Germans but also other “societies” in Europe. In this context we can recall the French volunteer SS-Division Charlemagne which was named after Emperor of the Carolingian Empire, “Europe’s unifier.” The division’s soldiers were defending the Reichstag from the assaulting Red Army till the last hours of the German Nazi regime. Twelve of those fanatics were captured by the Americans and handed over to French General Phillipe Leclerc. As early as May 8, 1945, he ordered to shoot those war criminals without unnecessary judicial procrastination.

US conservative circles say the British elite mentioned by Trump’s representative is prone to committing the gravest crimes against the humanity. Harvard professor Caroline Elkins provides evidence-based statements that it was from the British that Nazi Germany’s totalitarian regime borrowed the idea of concentration camps and genocide. She highlighted that the British “liberal imperialism” is more resilient and more destructive that fascism since it is “ideologically elastic” – has an ability to distort facts in a favourable light, conceal the realities and adapt to new environments.

Lauren Young, a specialist in security and defence, writes about close ties between the British aristocracy, including the Royal family, and German Nazis. She points out that before WWII, would-be British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Italy and had a very positive impression of the local fascist regime. She mentions that Churchill’s 1946 provocative speech in Fulton was a trigger to actively engage the United States and Europe in the Cold War with the USSR. Throughout that war, the British (very much like the Goebbels’ lie machine) did a lot of “black propaganda,” conducted misinformation and special operations that brought death on hundreds of thousands of people in Africa, the Middle East and Indonesia, Western experts underline.

In this connection, London’s destructive leading role in the Ukrainian conflict is unsurprising for experts. The British encourage the Kiev regime in every possible way, the regime that glorifies punishers who fought on Hitler’s side and Bandera henchmen and currently commits multiple crimes against humanity. By the way, America had a taste of these British inclinations in August 1814 when the UK troops occupied Washington D.C. and burned down the Capitol and the White House. According to experts US historians believe that it would be reasonable to designate Great Britain the first Evil Empire in view of such facts.

Specialists remind that in the past there were a number of cases when Washington and Moscow became partners in countering London and Paris. The highlighting example is the 1956 Suez crisis. The tough stance of the USSR and the United States stopped the triple aggression of Great Britain, France and Israel against Egypt. Another page from history which is hardly remembered in the West now is the 1853-1856 Crimean War when the UK, France, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia united against Russia, very much like the current “coalition of the willing.” While formally being neutral, the White House sympathized with St Petersburg in that standoff. Evidence of it is US medics participating in treating the defenders of Sevastopol, a “request by 300 Kentucky riflemen” to send them to defend that city, the operations of the Russian-American company on providing powder and food to our fortresses and possessions on the Pacific coast.

Notably, it was during that Crimean expedition that the French and British forces bombed Odessa, plundered Evpatoria, Kerch, Mariupol, Berdyansk and other Novorossiya cities the West says are Ukrainian nowadays. The same cities were being ruthlessly destroyed by the German fascists during the Great Patriotic War.

Eighty years ago all the peoples of the USSR joined in sacred battles against German and other European fascists. There are monuments in Crimea to the servicemen of the military units formed in the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia, who died during the storming of Sevastopol in 1944. All over Donbass there are similar memorials as well as graves of the Holocaust victims who were killed by Nazi perpetrators now held in esteem by Kiev while Israel is blissfully “unaware” of it.

Regarding Russian-US relations in the context of past and contemporary events, foreign experts express hope that a new joining of efforts by Moscow and Washington can prevent the world from sliding into a new global conflict and counter possible provocations by both Ukraine and “crazed” Europeans, who are traditionally being nudged by the UK.