DISINFO: France is a puppet state like the Vichy government

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DISINFO: France is a puppet state like the Vichy government

SUMMARY

No one will escape responsibility for the war crimes of France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and other NATO countries in the Donbass.

France submitted to Washington's dictate and became a puppet state on the model of the [WWII] Vichy government, which served the lowest instincts of the Nazis.

RESPONSE

Pro-Kremlin outlets often portray European states as alleged vassals, puppet-states or colonies of the US and NATO. The claim is baseless.

A classic Kremlin trope claiming lost sovereignty, this Anti-American and anti-elite speech turns NATO and EU into instruments of US domination, depicting Russia as struggling against Nazism. The claim also seeks to deflect responsibility away form war crimes committed in Ukraine by Russian forces.

Earlier, bodies of tortured and executed civilians were found in Bucha and Irpin, cities liberated from Russian occupation during spring 2022.

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