Russophobia is racism – Just like anti-Semitism
by Guy Mettan,* Geneva
(6 June 2025) It was to be expected that the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany on 8 and 9 May this year would give rise to a wave of Russophobic hate speech against Russians and Russia. The most blatant insults were avoided, because it was difficult to spit on the 27 million dead that the Soviet Union sacrificed to liberate Europe from Nazism.