We firmly believe that applying the so-called double-standards while assessing certain situations and phenomena remains a major challenge in this field. These states have totally discredited everything they said about the universal nature of human rights. In fact, some members of the international community have blatantly instrumentalized the human rights agenda to serve the political interests of certain states and to interfere in internal affairs and infringe the sovereignty of independent states.
We have repeatedly pointed out that, despite the legal mechanisms established and currently in place within the UN, the OSCE and the Council of Europe that aim to reject, condemn and prevent the glorification of Nazism, racism, xenophobia and related intolerance, a number of countries openly spread racist ideology and values, provoking the upsurge of radical nationalism.
In certain states, manifestations of racism and intolerance have permeated structures in all spheres of public life. Attempts to split societies based on ethnic origin and language are mounting. Some of these countries are witnessing a steady growth of xenophobic and racist incidents, a surge of aggressive nationalism, chauvinism, and other forms of racial and religious intolerance.
Authorities in these countries are trying to justify their inaction with regard to a wide range of manifestations of intolerance by hypocritically claiming the absolute nature of the freedom of expression. Today, all these manifestations are glaringly obvious. They are ready to justify and use any ways and means whatsoever to achieve this.
The history of the 20th century offers instructive examples in this regard. Particularly noteworthy are the efforts of Western countries and their allies to rewrite the history and revise the outcomes of World War II, their cynical attempts to whitewash war criminals and their accomplices β those who devised and put into practice the theory of racial superiority, β as well as to glorify Nazi collaborators as members of national liberation movements and introduce the related topics as subjects in general compulsory education curricula.
