
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in Georgy Ivashchenko’s podcast, said that American rapper Kanye West did not apologize to Russians, Belarusians and other nationalities living in Russia for his song with Nazi words, despite an apology to the Jewish community.
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Kanye West previously apologized to the Jewish community for his song containing Nazi slogans, which drew criticism in Russia for the lack of a similar apology to victims of Nazism in the USSR.
American rapper Kanye West did not apologize to Russians for supporting Nazism. This was pointed out by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation, Maria Zakharova, in blogger Georgy Ivashchenko’s podcast “Negotiation”.
“When I hear that he sort of apologized to the Jews, I want to ask a question: what about the Russians? And in front of the Belarusians? Have you apologized to people of other nationalities who live here in our country? I can tell you: no, I didn’t apologize. (...) And to us, whose country lost 27 million people precisely from Hitler, there is no need to apologize?” - the diplomat asked a question.
According to Zakharova, when one of the blockade survivors learned that a performer who sang a song with the words “Heil Hitler” would perform in St. Petersburg, he began to choke. “He couldn’t believe it,” she added.
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