Putin accuses the West of creating Nazis while comparing the war in Ukraine to WW2, in what experts are calling a perversion of history

• President Vladimir Putin has delivered his Victory Day speech in Moscow. 
• He sought to portray the war in Ukraine as part of a plot to destroy Russia. 
• Critics said the speech was riddled with distortions. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin used his Victory Day speech Tuesday to rant against the West, claiming it had created a "cult of Nazism." 

At the parade in Russia's capital marking the anniversary of the end of World War 2, Putin said the Russian invasion of Ukraine was an extension of the Soviet Union's battle against fascism.