Generalplan Ost
In the past, Russophobia has included state-sponsored mistreatment of the Russians, mainly in the rest of Europe, especially by Germany. Indeed Nazi Germany deemed Russians, and other Slavs, an inferior race and sub-human. As a result, millions of Russian civilians and POWs were murdered by the Nazis during World War II, with tens of millions more planned to be killed as part of Generalplan Ost.