Putin's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that drawing any comparison between Russia and Nazi Germany is "offensive and unacceptable." "That was an utterly revolting statement that does not fit a foreign minister of any country," Peskov said commenting on the recent statement from Labor Party MP Ian Austin.
Austin, speaking at a meeting of the International Affairs Committee stated that Putin was going to use the World Cup 2018 in Russia the way Hitler used the 1936 Olympics to glorify his regime.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson supported the MP and said that the comparison with 1936 was correct.
Officials with the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs stated that such parallels were unworthy of the head of diplomacy of a European state and reminded that Russia had given millions of lives in the fight against Nazism.
"If there is no clarity in the case of Skripal poisoning due to the refusal of the British side to provide any information on the subject, then things are clear when it comes to Boris Johnson. He is obviously poisoned with hatred and anger, unprofessionalism and therefore rudeness," official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said.
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