• Sergei Lavrov claimed that the US and Europe are trying to address “the Russian question”.
• The Holocaust resulted in the methodical killing of 6 million Jews and other minorities.
• Lavrov’s comments about Hitler last year sparked a global uproar.

The White House sharply rebuked the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday after he claimed that the United States had gathered a group of European nations to address “the Russian question” in a similar manner to how Adolf Hitler sought a “final solution” to exterminate the Jews of Europe.

“How dare he compare anything to the Holocaust, anything. Let alone a war that they started,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby said.

Lavrov, whose comments about Hitler last year sparked a global uproar, claimed that Washington was employing a strategy similar to that of Napoleon and the Nazis in its attempt to control Europe in order to destroy Russia.

He claimed that “they are waging war against our country with the same task: the ‘final solution’ of the Russian question.”

“Just as Hitler wanted a ‘final solution’ to the Jewish question, now, if you read Western politicians … they clearly say Russia must suffer a strategic defeat.”

Hitler’s plan for the Holocaust, known as the “Final Solution,” resulted in the methodical killing of 6 million Jews and other members of various minorities.

Lavrov has in the past offended people with his comments regarding Hitler. When he claimed that the Nazi commander had “Jewish blood” in May of last year, Israel erupted in fury.

“It’s almost so absurd that it’s not worth responding to, other than the truly offensive manner in which he tried to cast us in terms of Hitler and the Holocaust,” Kirby told reporters at a briefing.

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