Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine

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22.1.2025 B100074/2025 }

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B100076/2025 }

B100077/2025 }

B100079/2025 } RC1/Am. 1

Amendment 1

Danilo Della Valle

on behalf of The Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution

PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE

Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine

Joint motion for a resolution

Recital G

Joint motion for a resolution	Amendment
G. whereas Russia has not only failed to acknowledge the unforgivable initial role of the Soviet Union in the early stages of World War II, for example through the 1939 Treaty of Non-Aggression between Nazi Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) and its secrets protocols, commonly referred to as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, in which both totalitarian regimes conspired to divide Europe into exclusive spheres of influence, and failed to assume its responsibility for the many atrocities and mass crimes committed in territories occupied by the Soviet Union, but the current Russian regime has also instrumentalised history and created a cult of ‘victory’ around World War II to ideologically mobilise citizens and manipulate them into supporting an illegal war of aggression;	G. whereas Russia has failed to acknowledge the unforgivable initial role of the Soviet Union in the early stages of World War II, for example through the 1939 Treaty of Non-Aggression between Nazi Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) and its secrets protocols, commonly referred to as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, in which both totalitarian regimes conspired to divide Europe into exclusive spheres of influence; whereas in 1938, the United Kingdom and France signed the Munich Agreement with Nazi Germany, excluding the Soviet Union from the negotiations; whereas this effectively allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland and invade the sovereign state of Czechoslovakia;

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22.1.2025 B100074/2025 }

B100075/2025 }

B10076/2025 }

B100077/2025 }

B100079/2025 } RC1/Am. 2

Amendment 2

Danilo Della Valle

on behalf of The Left Group

Joint motion for a resolution

PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE

Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine

Joint motion for a resolution

Recital I

Joint motion for a resolution	Amendment
I. whereas Victory Day, celebrated annually on 9 May, has been turned by the current Russian regime into a tool of war propaganda in Russia, by exploiting the narrative of the ‘liberation of Europe from Nazism’ and thus ignoring the subsequent Soviet occupation of the Baltic States and the subjugation of central Europe; whereas this narrative of liberation from Nazism is being used today in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine;	I. whereas Victory Day, celebrated annually on 9 May, has been turned by the current Russian regime into a tool of war propaganda in Russia, by exploiting the narrative of the ‘liberation of Europe from Nazism’ and thus ignoring the subsequent Soviet occupation of the Baltic States and the subjugation of central Europe; whereas this narrative of liberation from Nazism is being used today in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine; whereas the Soviet people contributed significantly to the defeat of Nazism, which cost the lives of between 8 and 10 million Red Army soldiers and over 13 million civilians in the then USSR;

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