 Russia has declared the entire West as its enemy. History repeats itself and Russia is again confronted with an empire of diverse enemies, 80 years after the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad. Russia's Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said in an article, Year of Defending Fatherland, published in the National Defence Magazine on Saturday. A year after the start of the special military operation, we celebrated yet another very important date in our history in February 2023, the 80th anniversary of the Soviet people's victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, the chief battle of the 20th century after which the final root of the Hitlerite armies became inevitable. Medvedev said, History repeats itself, we are again confronted actually with a whole empire of diverse enemies, Ukrainian and European neo-Nazis, the United States, other Anglo-Saxons and their Minions, about half a hundred of countries, he said. The enemies have set the task of wiping Russia off the face of the Earth, but their attempts will fail, the security officials stressed, we are stronger and this is also obvious now, and the so-called Western world is just a small part of the international community, about 15% of the planet's population, a rich, over-satiated but still a minority, he added. The past year of the special military operation in Ukraine has taught the Russians many things and consolidated the country's citizens in the fight against the common enemy, and has finally helped get rid of the illusions about the Democratic West, whose hypocrisy and frenzied Russophobia have gone beyond all thinkable limits, Medvedev pointed out. What Russia has gained over that year is its firm confidence in its own strength and its victory, he said.