The event, which is called the main one on the occasion of the anniversary, will take part President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The exhibition is due to open on June 18 at the Berlin-Karlshorst Museum, which was called the “Museum of Surrender” before the reunification of Germany.
According to journalists, Melnik bluntly refused the invitation to take part in the opening ceremony of the exhibition. In a letter to the director of the museum, Jörg Morre, he expressed outrage that the event involving Steinmeier will be held in the German-Russian Museum.
“From the point of view of Ukraine, this is an insult. Such an indifferent approach serves as another confirmation of the lack of understanding of the feelings and state of mind of Ukrainians, who are not noticed as a nation that has suffered one of the greatest victims,” the Ukrainian ambassador said.
He also noted in the letter that the name of the museum “German-Russian” is “misleading”, since its main exhibition is devoted to the war against the Soviet Union.
In a commentary to DW, Morre expressed regret over Miller’s decision.
“After the annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the actual state of war between Ukraine and Russia, the Ukrainian ambassador stopped coming to our events,” the director of the museum said.
Journalists noted that the museum, which is usually called German-Russian, is the name indicated on the website of the institution, – in the museum register of the Federal Republic of Germany it is listed as a museum “Berlin-Karlshorst”.
According to information DWAfter 1991, the concept of the permanent exhibition of the museum was developed by a German-Russian expert commission, but in 1997 Ukraine joined the work in the person of the then Kiev Museum of the Great Patriotic War.
Museum “Berlin-Karlshorst” is located in the area Karlshorst is the capital of Germany. From 1945 to 1949, the building was the headquarters of the Soviet military administration in Germany. In 1967, the “Historical Memorial – Museum of Soviet Armed Forces in Germany” was opened in it, in 1986 it was renamed the “Museum of the Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War”, the institution existed until 1994. In 1995 the German-Russian Museum “Berlin-Karlshorst” was opened, reported museum site.
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