The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, affirmed that Russian soldiers are fighting in Ukraine against an evil that is the product of forgetting history. Photo: EFE
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, affirmed this Friday, January 27, 2023, that Russian soldiers fight in Ukraine an evil that is the product of forgetting the lessons of history, in a message on the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust.
“Forgetting the lessons of history leads to the repetition of terrible tragedies. Proof of this are the crimes against civilians, ethnic cleansing and punitive actions committed by neo-Nazis in Ukraine,” the Kremlin chief stressed in a message.
It is precisely “against this evil that our soldiers are now fighting courageously, shoulder to shoulder,” he added.
“So, in 1945, first of all, the Soviet people who defended the freedom and independence of the homeland saved the Jewish people and other peoples from total destruction and slavery,” the Russian president noted.
He stressed that any attempt to review the country’s contribution to “the Great Victory means justifying the crimes of Nazism, paving the way for the revival of its deadly ideology.”
By decision of the UN, the International Day in Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust has been remembered since 2006 on January 27, the day on which in 1945 Soviet troops freed the captives of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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