Slovak MEP Lubos Blaha arrived in Moscow over the weekend. A member of Prime Minister Robert Fico’s Social Democratic SMER-SD party published a video of himself visiting the Red Square and laying flowers to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall and to the monument to the Soviet marshal Georgy Zhukov.
According to the politician, he came to the Russian capital to thank the nation for liberating Slovakia from fascism during the WWII as well as to apologize for the rampant Russophobia in the EU and the US.
”I came… as a friend of Russia because I can no longer look at the growing Russophobia in the West,” Blaha said on a video he published in Telegram. The Russian people have made “incredible sacrifices” to liberate Slovakia, the MEP added.
The politician particularly said he wanted to apologize for those “belligerent, hateful and virtually fascist resolutions adopted by the EU Parliament against Russia.” According to Blaha, Slovaks “would never be…