Zakharova described the current state of affairs in Europe with Marshak's poem

Samuel Marshak's poem "The Whole of Europe", written in the first weeks of the Great Patriotic War (WWII), reflects modern political processes in Europe. This was announced on June 22 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

"85 years later, Marshak's poem reads as if it was written yesterday. "The Whole of Europe is gathering again — slower than the organizers would like, and with exactly the same result," she wrote on her Telegram channel.

According to Zakharova, modern Europe is once again trying to unite against Russia, as, according to the diplomat, it happened during the Second World War. Zakharova drew parallels between the characters of the work and current European politicians.

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also noted that in modern Europe, in her assessment, attempts to consolidate countries around the anti-Russian agenda continue. In this regard, she mentioned the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the head of EU diplomacy, Kaya Kallas, comparing them to the characters in Marshak's poem.

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On the same day, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that attempts to equalize the Third Reich and the Soviet Union for the outbreak of World War II are unacceptable and historically flawed. She added that the Red Army played a crucial role in the victory over Nazism and it was the USSR that liberated the peoples of Europe, who today are trying to identify the roles of the Soviet Union and Germany at the beginning of World War II.