By Tass

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MOSCOW, September 16. /TASS/. The anti-Russian statements made by Moldovan President Maia Sandu ahead of the upcoming elections demonstrate her course to destroy any manifestations of democracy, freedom, and human rights, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS.

“I believe this should be viewed as the destruction by Sandu’s regime of any manifestations of democracy. I would even go broader, to the very foundation of freedom and human rights. That’s all,” the diplomat noted, commenting on recent statements by the Moldovan leader alleging that Russia uses Russian Orthodox Church priests and bots to interfere in the republic’s elections.

Zakharova also pointed out that in the paradigm of the republic’s authorities, concepts like democracy and freedom “have only an ultra-liberal connotation, where only those who think as they are told to think – according to manuals, on command – are considered free.” “Apparently, those who think differently, regardless of whether they are the majority or minority, can no longer be considered free on Moldovan territory. But, in principle, all this has already occurred in history and was even predicted,” she remarked.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, each of the dystopias previously described by science fiction writers led to the same result – “from statements dedicated to human rights and freedom of speech, liberalism will regardless mutate into the harshest dictatorships, which cannot even be compared to systems that advocate monarchy or other forms of state organization and power implementation.”

“Precisely liberalism in its Western manifestation of the 20th-21st centuries represents the worst practices of dictatorship and outright misanthropy. It seems to me that (the Moldovan president’s political course – TASS) is heading in the same direction,” the Russian diplomat concluded.