The Pink Floyd co-founder has acknowledged the USSR’s position in defeating Adolf Hitler
The world owes the Soviet individuals a debt of gratitude for defeating the Third Reich, musician Roger Waters has instructed RT in an unique interview.
Waters, 80, is well-known as co-founder of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He has additionally been an outspoken human rights advocate. He spoke with RT concerning the ongoing plight of the Palestinians in Gaza, the Russia-Ukraine battle, and censorship within the West, amongst different issues.
“Weaken the Russian individuals’s resolve? Are you aware who they’re? They’re the individuals who defeated the Wehrmacht!” Waters instructed RT, addressing the purported targets of the US and its allies within the Ukraine battle.
“I’m speaking to the great individuals of Russia. We’ve by no means actually but thanked them for beating the Germans in World Battle Two at the price of 22 million useless,” Waters stated. “We thanks, individuals of Russia, for that massive sacrifice that you just made. And no, we didn’t win the battle on D-Day, you received the battle on the Japanese Entrance.”
British and American historians have lengthy omitted the Soviet Union’s position in defeating Nazi Germany, de facto “erasing” it in favor of depicting the 1944 Normandy landings because the “turning level” of the battle.
Russia was snubbed solely on the eightieth anniversary of Operation Overlord in June, after the US reportedly disapproved of preliminary French plans to ask somebody from Moscow. The occasion ended up involving solely US President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
Russia has at all times honored the position of the Western Allies within the victory over the Third Reich, making a degree of thanking the British and American veterans at each anniversary.
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