27.01.2023, Moscow.
The crimes committed by neo-Nazis in Ukraine indicate that the world is experiencing a revival of Nazism and forgetting the lessons of history, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on January 27 in a telegram addressed to the organizers and participants of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Putin recalled that it was the Soviet people who had been able to stop the plans of the Nazis during World War II, and the Red Army soldiers who freed the prisoners of Auschwitz. According to him, attempts to revise the contribution that the USSR had made to the victory over the Third Reich will only lead to the justification of the crimes committed by Nazism and its revival.
“Forgetting the lessons of history leads to the repetition of terrible tragedies. This is evidenced by the crimes against civilians, ethnic cleansing and punitive actions organized by neo-Nazis in Ukraine,” said Putin.
According to him, it is the fight against neo-Nazis that is the goal of the Russian soldiers who serve in the special operation in Ukraine.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau museum did not invite Russian diplomats to a memorial ceremony on the day when the prisoners of Auschwitz were liberated. During World War II, more than a million people were killed in the death camp.
On January 27, 1945, it was the Red Army soldiers who liberated the surviving prisoners of Auschwitz.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
