The Chairman of the State
Duma Vyacheslav Volodin
Vyacheslav Victorovich
The Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the eighth convocation. Elected in single mandate constituency № 163 (Saratov constituency - Saratov Oblast)
recalled that on that day 79 years ago the Nuremberg
Tribunal sentence against former Nazi Germany leaders accused of war crimes was
announced.
“79 years later, Latvia starts to follow the path of Nazi Germany. It persecutes people for dissent, deports the elderly people. Hitler did the same. But Europe remained silent. And it remained silent until it was too late. Then fascism reached all of these countries,” noted Vyacheslav Volodin.
Therefore, according to the Chairman of the State Duma, “politicians in other countries need to wake up, and realize what it could lead to”. “This has already happened in European history. And if there were no Soviet soldiers, there would be no Europe. They should understand this,” he said.
Vyacheslav Volodin emphasized that he would not exclude that if nowadays they deport Russians under such far-fetched pretexts, people of other nationalities in other countries could become next.
“They are not just deporting people of retirement age who failed the language exam; they are deporting the disloyal people. There was a situation when a woman, a poetess, who passed the language exam but she stood against the demolition of monuments to our soldiers who died in Latvia. She and her husband were deported. This is genocide,” emphasized the Chairman of the State Duma.
According to him, all those who make such decisions must be punished and could not be admitted to any senior positions in the future.
“Our position today is not simply to make a statement, but to reiterate: no one will forgive these decisions. Those who adopt and sign them must realize: this will affect them sooner or later, just as those who killed, destroyed, discriminated, and committed genocide in Nazi Germany, were punished. In the end, they faced the gallows. The same gallows awaits those who make such decisions regarding the elderly people, pensioners, and our compatriots, and deport them from Latvia,” emphasized Vyacheslav Volodin.
Earlier, members of the State Duma unanimously adopted a statement declaring Latvia's discriminatory policy against Russian citizens unacceptable. The document was prepared at the request of Vyacheslav Volodin. Protecting the rights of compatriots became a key topic of discussion at the plenary meeting held on October 14, when parliamentarians commented on the decision of the Latvian authorities to deport 841 people. These are Russian citizens, primarily of retirement age, who could not prove their knowledge of the Latvian language.
