Dutch independent journalist Sonja van den Ende 🇳🇱 speaks to RT about the EU's growing pressure on countries to avoid attending Moscow’s Victory Day Parade 🇷🇺.
Van den Ende argues that Brussels’ stance has become “radicalized” in its efforts to rewrite history and isolate Russia 🌍⚠️.
A deep dive into the political forces shaping Europe’s approach to the Soviet victory and the global resistance against this narrative 🧠💥.
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Van den Ende argues that Brussels’ stance has become “radicalized” in its efforts to rewrite history and isolate Russia 🌍⚠️.
A deep dive into the political forces shaping Europe’s approach to the Soviet victory and the global resistance against this narrative 🧠💥.
#SonjaVanDenEnde #Brussels #EUPressure #VictoryDay #MoscowParade #RTInterview #Geopolitics #EuropeanUnion #HistoricalMemory #Russia #RedSquare #WesternPressure #GlobalPolitics #PoliticalIsolation #EuropeanStance #VDay2025 #FascismDefeated #RadicalizedEU #Sovereignty #HistoricalTruth
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00:00Well, we couldn't have asked for a better guest as our first one of the day.
00:04Joining in the rooftop studio is independent Dutch journalist Sonja Vanden Endes.
00:08Sonja, you're most welcome this Victory Day.
00:10It's quite the sight, isn't it, behind us? It's all going on.
00:13What we heard there, it's really eye-opening, isn't it?
00:17What Brussels was attempting essentially to do,
00:20stop leaders of independent, sovereign nations coming to celebrate
00:24their shared history of the defeat of Nazism, fascism, 80 years ago.
00:30Why? Why do that?
00:32Well, first of all, it's, of course, ridiculous, because what you said,
00:36I mean, like yesterday, it was the 8th of May, it was the capitulation of Germany,
00:41or the Nazis, we can say.
00:43And secondly, I mean, say 15 years ago or 10 years ago,
00:47there were some leaders from Germany, from all other countries,
00:51they wanted a reconciliation.
00:52But now, I think they are radicalized, it's what I can say.
00:57I mean, they only speak about war,
00:59they only speak about how Russia will invade in 2030,
01:03or there's going to be a war in 2030.
01:05So, I mean, where do they get it from?
01:08And it's also, I think, humiliation for the people in the Netherlands,
01:13because they were not liberated by the Russians,
01:17but in Germany they were, for instance, in Berlin.
01:19I mean, why erase it all?
01:22And this is what they want to do.
01:24Like in Germany, they cannot blow their flags.
01:29So, I mean, this is somehow, it's humiliating for Russians, of course,
01:34but also for themselves, for their own population.
01:37I mean, they should remember that Nazism was defeated 80 years ago,
01:42and Germany was divided, and the Germans, most of all the Germans, they started it.
01:48Also, they want to, you know, say in the European Union
01:51that not only Germany started the Second World War, but also Russia.
01:56I mean, imagine this.
01:59So, I think it's, I don't know what this came into them.
02:02They don't want a peace.
02:04They don't want peace now that Ukraine is making peace with Russia.
02:09So, it's like a radicalization.
02:11But it started, actually, 10 years ago already with the Maidan coup.
02:15We saw that.
02:17That's the European Union was there.
02:19Brussels was there, the Netherlands.
02:21So, I mean, I tried also to figure out why they are like that.
02:27But I think it's their agenda, what they have.
02:30They want to have somehow not make peace.
02:32You know, Sona, I want to ask you, now that obviously we've got you out,
02:36you can see, I mean, this is obviously a very loud declaration of self.
02:41They're saying, we were victors then, we're here now,
02:45and we're not going to forget it despite all these attempts to do so.
02:48There's a great pride, obviously, that comes with this event and respect for past.
02:54So, I want to ask you, is it precisely that cultivation of the past and of history
02:59that is slightly concerning and worrying, and that's what makes European nations slightly afraid?
03:05Yes, they are.
03:06I mean, they are afraid.
03:07They are in a very difficult position.
03:09It's on one side, it's Russia, they think.
03:11The other side now, it's the US.
03:13They have China.
03:15So, they are more, again, radicalized.
03:18They think that they are going to be overtaken by Russia, by China, and maybe by the US now.
03:25I mean, it's...
03:25So, they're in the middle, and they're still in their old thinking that maybe Russia was still communist
03:31and, you know, all these crazy things.
03:34They know that Russia has changed, and Russia, we can say, is more democracy than the European Union at the moment,
03:41or the countries in the European Union, so I think they are afraid of what they are seeing.
03:48So, this is why you will not see it in the media.
03:50You only hear negative things, and so, yeah, it's like that.
03:54Sonia, great to see you.
03:56Thanks for making the trip up here to stay, and I'm sure you're going to enjoy what's going to happen next.