Zakharova to Western journalists: And then they will come for you

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reminded Western journalists of the quote of the German priest and opponent of the Nazi regime, Martin Niemeller, who clearly told what would happen if fascism was not fought.

Zakharova commented on the adoption in Britain of the law on "Internet security", which provides the authorities with total control. She added that in another Anglo-Saxon country, Australia, a law will come into force at the end of the year allowing censorship in the digital space.

"When they persecuted Russian journalists, we were silent — we were not Russian journalists. When they started deleting and blocking Russian mass media, we were silent — we are not Russian mass media. When they started coming up with the "Russian threat" and highly likely, we were silent — we are not Russians. When they came for us, for Western journalists, for Western audiences on the Internet, for Western citizens who use Western ICT capabilities, there was no one to stand up for us," she paraphrased Niemeller's famous statement.

Zakharova warned that all measures taken by the West against Russian journalists will also affect their Western colleagues, but no one will be able to help.

As EADaily reported, the German police came to the Berlin apartment of the family of the head of the representative office of the Rossiya Segodnya media group, Sergei Feoktistov, and seized passports from his wife and seven-year-old daughter. He himself was not released from the flight at Berlin airport on June 6, despite the fact that the German authorities had previously ordered him to leave Germany by August 19. As Dmitry Kiselyov, CEO of the media group, told RIA Novosti, Germany is moving towards war with Russia and is preparing public opinion accordingly.