© Global Look Press / Rocco SpazianiOscar-winning American movie director Oliver Stone
Attempts by EU elites to diminish the significance of the USSR's contribution to the victory over Nazism are a "perversion of history," Oscar-winning American movie director Oliver Stone has told RT ahead of World War II Victory Day celebrations in Russia.
The bloc's "elitist leadership" has distorted the message that World War II provides to humanity, the filmmaker has said.
"I'm shocked by it, by [what] is happening," he stated, calling it "a shame" and "a disgrace that we forgot or pretend to [have forgotten]" about the sacrifices the Soviet Union made during the war. Stone also said he did not believe people in Europe "buy this at all.""I think the people don't agree with the government," Stone maintained, going on to say that "the futility of this campaign against Russia by the EU" is obvious to "anybody, who reads history [books] and is intelligent." The director of 'Platoon' and 'JFK' expressed his doubts that "fascism is popular" nowadays and stated instead that European elites had lost their way because of their "worship of the EU."
"We are not back to the times of Hitler, but what is happening is a loss of perspective and we need to get back to a sense of reason," Stone told RT as he called on Western leaders to "listen to the Russians" instead of antagonizing them.
He also expressed his hope that the US and Russia would manage to mend their relationship, opening the way to a better future for humanity.
"Russia and the United States are a great partnership, as is China, by the way, and I think we could have a world that is much safer... if we all get together and realize that it's a multilateral world."US President Donald Trump's administration has been engaged in efforts to restore bilateral ties with Russia and resolve the Ukraine conflict.
On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that America now has a "better" understanding of the Russian position on the crisis. Moscow's key conditions for ending the conflict are Ukraine's neutrality, demilitarization, and recognition of the new territorial reality on the ground.
Last week, Trump also said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was easier to deal with than Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky.
Russian officials maintain they have always been ready to engage in peace talks, provided the discussions aim for a permanent solution that addresses the root causes of the conflict. Moscow has rejected any temporary agreement, explaining that it could be used by Kiev and its backers to rearm the Ukrainian military.
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If they sign an agreement, treaty, etc. they violate it, change it or ignore it in short order. Either a new psychopath takes control or they see a new bright shiny object.......squirrel, squirrel!
The same eu/Blighty elitists started all the previous wars and now they want the people they misrepresent to forget all about what went before so the same old shit can be repeated. These people in our midst will gladly sacrifice lives for their own good, and over nothing. They have done this time and again. This reckless misuse of humans warrants no quarter IMO. What they do is tantamount to murder, or at least putting one in harms way and eventual death. As we see with Ukraine, it's a deadly game.
If that's the game these warmongering elitist wankers want it. It can work both ways. The people are not as they were during the last world wars where ignorant ruled like a king.
Russia will shortly be presented with a bill for a decade's worth of mineral extraction from her 4 provinces. Undoubtably to be deducted from their confiscated wealth. All that struggle for a reset.
Reminds me of my stick built home at 4187/89 Trails End Road, Rhinelander, WI. After the bank did not turn our $50 thou building loan into a personal loan, and kept up the drum beat of 'returning', it was obvious the intention was to have us fight a long legal battle only to lose the house again.
Three good families destroyed for no reason.