The policy of the Moldavian President Maia Sandu is comparable to the experiments of the Third Reich regarding people’s nationality and language, stated the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova.
In an interview with the state news agency TASS, she sarcastically draws comparisons with Nazism, a propagandistic narrative also used in the case of the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
"As for Sandu, you know, I think it is comparable to the experiments of the Third Reich. Only then and there did they experiment with people's nationality, with their language," said Zakharova.
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson reminded that documentary literature and history describe "how the Third Reich forced newspaper workers to use a different font."
"The newspapers' font had to precisely match this idea of Aryans - pure-blooded Aryans, which they invented there: the shape of the nose, ears, skull shape, forehead, eye placement, and so on. A clear categorization of people," emphasized Zakharova.
Drawing a parallel with the policy of the Third Reich, the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry escalated and underlined that similarly, Maia Sandu "rewrote people literally, without asking them, again according to a template - she put and circled the features that were necessary, the rest were cut, painted, and thrown away."
TASS mentions that Maia Sandu approved a parliamentary decision to change the name of the state language from Moldovan to Romanian in 2023.
"In a second, the Moldovan language, with a stroke of the Sandu government's pen, turned into the Romanian language. And what is this if not elements of genocide against an entire people?" she commented.
Zakharova claims that the first question she asks when meeting Moldovan citizens is about the language they speak: "Tell me, what language do you speak?" "They answer: of course, in Moldovan. Historically, the Moldovan language is older than the Romanian language," stated Zakharova, one of the main voices of Russian propaganda, reiterating a - incorrect - thesis she supported last year.
According to Maria Zakharova, Maia Sandu is "a transmitter of the same Nazi ideas, ideologies, philosophical views, which are paid for by the West."
"I think this is comparable either to the policy of the Third Reich or to the way colonizers left Africa, drawing countries' borders just with a ruler on the map, making people suffer, that is, deliberately condemning people to future bloody conflicts, having such an opportunity at that moment," Zakharova concluded.
The propagandistic thesis of Nazism was used by Moscow to justify its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Moscow frequently accuses President Volodymyr Zelensky of Nazism, although he has Jewish origins.
In the press briefing held on Wednesday, Maria Zakharova had, as she periodically does, even weekly lately, an extensive commentary on the "situation in Moldova," where she condemned, using similar terms, the fact that Chisinau celebrates Europe Day on May 9.