While Russian fascism is instrumentalizing the victory over Nazism 80 years ago for its genocide in Ukraine today by having state artists put on a grotesque theatrical performance in a 1:1 replica of the Reichstag on 9 May, German coalition politicians Ralf Stegner (SPD), Matthias Platzeck (SPD), Ronald Pofalla (CDU), Stephan Holthoff-Pförtner (CDU), together with the notorious German Russia lobbyist Martin Hoffmann, secretly met with Russian criminals in Baku.