Russian President Vladimir Putin considers it dishonest to place full responsibility for the actions of Nazi Germany on modern Germans, Ednews informs.

He was speaking in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin, published on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel.

“I do not believe that today’s generations of Germans should bear full political responsibility for everything that Nazi Germany did,” Putin said, commenting on German media articles that the grandfather of the current German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was a Nazi.

“We cannot place responsibility on the people of today’s generation for what Hitler and his henchmen did - and not only in Germany but also in other parts of the world, Europe, and so on. I think that would be unfair,” the Russian president continued, calling it a “dishonest position” to “put this label on the entire German people.” “This is an abuse of what the peoples of the Soviet Union experienced; it seems to me that there is no need for it,” Putin emphasized. According to him, “we must proceed from the realities of today, look at who is actually doing what and what policies they are pursuing.”