"The West spreads nonsense about history"

President Vladimir Putin said today that the West has fed historical nonsense into the minds of millions of people, including about the real course of World War II and the role of the Soviet Union in defeating Nazi Germany.

Without citing evidence, Putin repeated the claim that Poland has not given up its dreams of taking over parts of Ukraine, Reuters reported.

Poland has repeatedly denied such Russian claims and says they are disinformation spread by Moscow in an attempt to divide Warsaw and Kyiv.

On the occasion of marking the Russian National Unity Day, the leader of the Kremlin said that Russia's conflict with the "neo-Nazi regime" in Kiev was inevitable. He also said that Russia has a unique civilization and culture.

Speaking of history, Putin reprimanded Western empires for plundering African states during the colonial period. He praised modern India as a country with great potential.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today described Russia's war in Ukraine as a holy conflict with Satan, warning that Moscow could send all its enemies to the eternal fire of Gehenna.

Medvedev, who once presented himself as a liberal modernizer as president from 2008 to 2012, said Moscow was fighting "crazy Nazi drug addicts" in Ukraine with the support of Westerners who he said were "salivating down their chins with depravity." .

Ukraine and the West reject Putin's claims that Ukraine is run by fascists who persecute the Russian-speaking population. They portray the war as a brutal land grab by Moscow.

In a message on the occasion of National Unity Day, Medvedev said that the task of the motherland is to "stop the supreme ruler of hell, whatever name he uses - Satan, Lucifer or Iblis".

Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's National Security Council, said Russia has a variety of weapons, including the ability to "send all our enemies to a fiery Gehenna," using a Hebrew term often translated as hell.