08.05.2020, Moscow.
Any attempts to equalize the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany are made for Russia to have to offer excuses, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin said in an Andrey Kondrashov’s film “War for the Memory” that premiered on May 8 on the air of the Russia One TV channel.
“We do not have, and we cannot have, any feeling of guilt. We sacrificed 27 million lives of our citizens, the citizens of the Soviet Union, I mean taken together. Therefore, there is no, and cannot be, any excuses for those who is trying to rewrite history. […] Who attacked whom on June 22, 1941? Did we attack Germany or did Germany attack us? What are they talking about?” Vladimir Putin commented on the attempts to revise the role of the USSR in World War Two.
According to Putin, attempts take place to put Russia in a false position of those who must have a feeling of guilt. However, the president stresses, we must be forever grateful to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, “our grandfathers and grandmothers, our fathers and mothers for securing this Victory for us and for defending the future of our country and our children.”
On May 7, the leaders of the Baltic republics made a joint statement, in which they accused Russia of attempts to “rewrite the historical events that initiated World War Two and the division of Europe after the war,” and they accused the Soviet Union of enslaving the Baltic nations “using great military power, unprecedented repression, mass exiles, and total control at the ideological level.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
