Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday advocated an end to practices that cause division among races, ethnic groups, and religions.
Putin was speaking at the Great Heritage, a Common Future forum, organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.
He proposed that Russia and Belarus establish a commission to preserve the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, during which the former Soviet Union fought against Nazi Germany.
The commission, which will include experts and historians from both Russia and Belarus, aims to consolidate citizens as well as public and political forces around “joint projects geared to defend the truth about the Great Patriotic War and World War II.”;
The president called for coordinated efforts to prevent the revival of Nazism and recommended the construction of an architecture of equal and indivisible security.
Putin said “everything possible”; must be done “to resist the revival of Nazism, the spread of the destructive ideas of Russophobia, anti-Semitism, and any form of racism, ethnic and religious intolerance.”;
He also encouraged firm opposition to “exceptionalism”; which, he argued, is used as a cover for claims to global dominance and attempts to pressurise and interfere in the domestic affairs of sovereign states.
The Russian leader stated that, contrary to the Western model, Eurasia should become “a space of peace and stability, a model of sustainable economic, social and humanitarian development.”;
Putin added that the world requires a new order that ensures equal and indivisible security, which would reliably protect all states without compromising the security of others.
