Responding to a TASS question about why there is such a widespread falsification of history by the West, Zakharova renembered the concept of revanchism as something that was not very clear in her youth, “a term that, apparently, I think we never really connected with in real life,” she added.

The spokeswoman, who participated in the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, noted that “we probably learned the wrong lesson from the film Ordinary Fascism, because it contained this warning: from a small bacterium, a huge and terrible pandemic of historical revanchism can grow.”

The diplomat pointed out that the citizens of the Soviet Union and later of Russia understood the “awful” essence of the concept of revanchism, but failed to foresee its future spread in the minds of Western elites.

Zakharova stressed that the attempts by Western countries to rewrite history have clearly demonstrated the true meaning of revanchism.

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