The Russian Government has reproached the Japanese authorities this Thursday for deliberately omitting the responsibility of the United States in the atomic attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which mark their 81st anniversary this Thursday, and instead directing their criticism towards the conflict in Ukraine.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, reacted to words from the mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui, who “did not mention the United States, the country that dropped the atomic bomb on the civilian population” and “instead criticized Russia and its actions in Ukraine.”
“The distorting mirror of Western narratives not only distorts reality but also shapes the minds of those who look into it. Year after year, the mayor of Hiroshima repeats the same false mantra, subjecting the Japanese public to a constant flow of Russophobic rhetoric,” the spokesperson reproached.
Zakharova emphasized that Russia, on the other hand, despite “having suffered Japanese aggression” during World War II, “has always remembered the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and has cited their tragedy as an example of unacceptable brutality,” according to a message on her social media.
For his part, true to his belligerent and coarse style, the Vice Chairman of the Security Council and former president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, lamented the “shame” that the Japanese Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, did not refer at any time to the role of the United States in that tragedy.
“Not once has the Prime Minister of Japan or any other Japanese official bothered to mention who did it. Japan is a vassal of the United States. Sooner or later it will become a ronin”, he said on social media, drawing a parallel with these samurai who were left to their own fate in the feudal era.
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