In September 2023, the media spread the statement of Ursula von der Lyain, in which she allegedly assigned responsibility for Russia for the bombing of the Japanese city in 1945. We checked the reliability of such publications.
September 22, official representative of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova Published In its Telegram channel, a post dedicated to the speech of the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Lyen at an event in the United States. According to the Russian official, one of the leaders of the European Union during her speech "laid the tragedy of Hiroshima to Russia." “About the United States and the Washington executioners who dropped bombs on Japanese cities and the civilian population, not a word. <...> It is disgusting and dangerous how Ursula von der Layen is lying, ”Zakharova emphasized. Her post at the time of writing this analysis gained 540,000 views.
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September 20, the head of the European Commission Spended At the Global Citizens Award award ceremony, which is awarded by the American Analytical Center Atlantic Council. Among the laureates for 2023 was the Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kisida-von der Layen Read Speech preceding his award. The text of this speech Available On the website of the European Commission, and the video on YouTube channel EU executive body.
Representing the laureate, von der Layen emphasized the role of the Japanese prime minister in the international opposition of Russian aggression against Ukraine, including the organization of the Great Seven summit in Hiroshima this spring. The head of the European Commission noted that this is the hometown of the Kisida: “Many of your relatives died when the atomic bomb roamed Hiroshima with the Earth. You grew up on the stories of the survivors. And you wanted us to listen to the same stories, look in the face of the past and learn something about the future. <...> From the very beginning of this war, Japan's position was clear. As the only country that suffered from atomic bombing, you forced you to listen to the whole world. ”
In the middle of this passage, the European official pronounced the phrase that caused Zakharova's indignation. In the original (von der Lyaine performed in English), it sounded like this: “It was a sobering start to the g7 and one that I Will Not Forget, Especially at a Time When Russia Threatens to uses weapons on The speaker of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which omitted the first part of the proposal about the “sobering beginning [summit] G7, which never to forget” (the head of the European Commission along with other leaders Loose The wreath to the memorial in Hiroshima), translated its second part like this: "Russia threatens to use nuclear weapons again." From this Zakharov concluded that von der Lyan accused the Russian Federation of bombing in August 1945.
Although the transfer, made by the official representative of the Russian ministry, is correct, the head of the European Commission did not stated that the Russian military bombed Hiroshima. She only mentioned that her experience of visiting the city was especially emotional against the background of constantly sounding from Russian officials and propagandists threats And calls Use nuclear weapons against Ukraine and other countries. If such words turn into action, this will be the second case of the use of an atomic bomb in the framework of the fighting and Nagasaki, that is, it will be used again, but this time Russia. In fairness, that the Japanese cities bombed the American military, von der Lyaine really did not say.
Thus, although Zakharova, as a whole, correctly translated the speech of von der Leyen, she vaguely interpreted her words. The European official can rightly reproach for the unsuccessful choice of formulations and the silence of the one who dropped atomic bombs to Japan in 1945, but the accusations that the head of the European Commission allegedly entrusted these bombings on Russia are unfounded.
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