Russia: Prince Charles 'Hitler' remarks 'outrageous propaganda'

Moscow accuses Prince of Wales of "outrageous propaganda campaign against Russia" after likening Vladimir Putin to Hitler.

“If these words were truly spoken, then without doubt, they do not reflect well on the future British monarch," the spokesman said. Photo: PA/John Stillwell

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The Prince of Wales’ remarks that President Putin is like Hitler are “outrageous, unacceptable and low”, Russia said today.
In a furious response, Moscow accused Prince Charles of attempting to spread "anti-Russian propaganda" following the annexation of Crimea, adding his remarks are unworthy of a future King.
On a visit to Canada, the Prince told a woman who lost relatives in the Holocaust: “And now Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler.”
“If these words were truly spoken, then without doubt, they do not reflect well on the future British monarch," a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
"We view the use of the Western press by members of the British Royal Family to spread the propaganda campaign against Russia on a pressing issue - that is, the situation in Ukraine - as unacceptable, outrageous and low."

Clarence House has not denied the veracity of the remarks but said the Prince was not seeking to make a political intervention.
Senior Russian diplomats said the comments are regarded as particularly offensive as 20 million Russians were killed during the war, including members of Vladimir Putin’s family.
The Russian president has raised the spectre of Nazism to justify the snatching of Crimea, a move which plunged Anglo-Russian relations into deep freeze.
He has said Viktor, his older brother, died of diptheria during the siege of Leningrad. His father, Vladimir, was wounded in the legs by a grenade during the defence of the city. His grandmother was killed by German occupiers of Tver while his uncles were killed at the front.
Senior Foreign Office officials last night turned the tables on Alexander Kramarenko, the Russian deputy ambassador, who had demanded an urgent meeting so the British Government could explain whether the Prince’s comments amounted to an “official position.”
In a “fraught” meeting, Sian MacLeod, the additional director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, bluntly told Mr Kramarenko she “could not be expected to comment upon reports of private conversations”.
Instead she told Russia to “step back” from attempting to destabilise this weekend’s Presidential elections in Ukraine.
“People and governments across the world strongly condemn Russia's actions in Ukraine including the illegal annexation of Crimea,” an FCO spokesman said afterwards.
In Russia, newspapers loyal to Putin hit back by highlighting the Nazi sympathies of Edward VIII, Prince Charles' uncle.
Pravda, the Russian tabloid, said: “If we talk about the British royal family, the issue of Nazi themes arises with them first. In 2006 the young Prince Harry appeared at a costume party in the form of soldier in Rommel’s army, with a swastika armband on his arm.”
Meanwhile, Lord Mandelson, the former Business Secretary who is now a director of Sistema, a Russian conglomerate which invests in the Russian defence industry, today stunned members of Putin’s inner circle by telling them the invasion would be a “pyrrhic victory.”
Speaking at the St Petersburg Economic Forum, dubbed a “Putin vanity summit” by critics, Lord Mandelson warned sanctions could be extended and broadened and the invasion would leave Russia shut out from international markets and finance.
“For the sake of an entanglement in Ukraine, Russia is jeopardising its own economic future,” he said.
Sergei Glazyev, Putin’s chief adviser on Ukraine who is subject to EU and US sanctions, accused Lord Mandelson of issuing “threats” and said his warnings were “strongly exaggerated”.
The Prince is today back in Britain after flying home from Canada. His next official public engagement is on Saturday, when he is due to a concert at the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Northleach, Gloucestershire.