30.07.2021, Moscow.
Volunteer search team members, scientists, and law enforcement officials who are searching for victims of Nazi crimes committed on the occupied territories of the Soviet Union, expressed commitment to gather all facts that are necessary to take legal actions, Executive Secretary of Russian Search Movement Elena Tsunayeva said at a press conference on July 30.
According to Tsunayeva, Russia will demand that the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War be acknowledged at the international court, although this process is in its early phase now.
Elena Tsunayeva stressed that the Holocaust issue is well elaborated, and it should be used as an example in the investigation into the genocide against the Soviet people.
To date, volunteer search team members continue to discover mass graves of civilians in Belarus and Russia as well as in other countries that were under occupation. For example, a search expedition to Novgorod region resulted in court proceedings that acknowledged crimes that Nazis committed near the village of Zhestanaya Gorka as genocide.
Similar court investigations were opened in Pskov and Rostov regions. A search mission is underway in Kaliningrad region. In Karelia, a study of a grave of victims of the concentration camp in the village of Ilyinskoye is in its final phase.
Tsunayeva stressed that twenty three volumes of archive documents and several books have been published within the “Without Statute of Limitations” project.
Director of the Historical Memory foundation Aleksandr Dyukov explained that requests made to countries where witnesses to Nazi crimes are now located showed that almost four hundred of Latvian SS legionaries are still alive.
Dyukov stressed that Russia plans to submit the information to the law enforcement authorities. Most of those who are searched is now in the USA, Britain, or Canada.
The social activist stressed that we can hardly hope for a serious investigation in Latvia, where Nazi crimes are known to be covered. For example, recently Riga received a package of documents of one of the Latvian SS divisions from a private collection. Although these materials could elucidate certain crimes, access to them is actually denied in Latvia.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
