Question: March 25 is the Greek Independence Day. As is well known, the Russian Empire – Russia made a decisive contribution to the success of the Greek national liberation struggle for independence. However, on the instructions of the leadership of the Greek Foreign Ministry, this year the traditional celebrations on the occasion of March 25 will again be held in Greece itself and in its foreign missions without Russian participation. How would you comment on this?
Answer: Among the top leaders of the Greek state in the early days of its formation were many of those who had faithfully and faithfully served our Motherland for a long time. To be fair, it should be noted that throughout the long history of these facts no one in Athens questioned. There they paid tribute to the decisive role of Russian arms and diplomacy in the victory of the Greek Revolution of 1821, honored the memory of our Philhellenes, carefully kept the pages of the glorious joint past of the two countries.
Alas, today the situation has undergone bizarre metamorphoses – all the more inexplicable because their precarious basis is a very dubious political conjuncture. The absence of Russian representatives at the traditional celebrations of the country’s Independence Day on the instructions of the leadership of the Greek Foreign Ministry is just an element of a rabidly hostile campaign, which, referring to the current international situation, was launched by the cabinet of K. Mitsotakis. The goal is to erase from the collective memory everything related to Russia, sacrificing for the sake of immediate circumstances the centuries-old historical and cultural-spiritual ties between the Russian and Greek peoples.
On the wave of aggressive Russophobia, Athens persists in criminal decisions, in particular, to send weapons to Ukraine, which the Kiev regime is using to exterminate civilians, including ethnic Greeks living in the Azov region. Hiding behind the collective decisions of the West, the current leadership of the country has cut off dialog and any interaction with us. It came to the point that the Greek Embassy in Moscow, among other EU diplomatic missions, disregarded the norms of diplomatic communication and ignored the invitation to talk to the leadership of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
On March 25, we brought our thoughts and assessments directly to the Greek Embassy. It is regrettable that instead of once so appropriate friendly congratulations on a national holiday, we have to remind Athens of the elementary lessons of history on this day.
