Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Ignoring the role of the Soviet Union (USSR) in the liberation of the Nazi extermination camps is shameful.
He responded to the decision of the organizers of Monday’s memorial ceremony on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who They did not invite Russian representatives or family members of the direct participants of the camp to the celebration. TASR writes according to Reuters.
Several world leaders participated in Monday’s memorial ceremony Including the German office of Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian President of Volodymyr Greeny or the British King Charles III. President of the Slovak Republic Peter Pellegrini was also present.
However, they did not invite Russia’s representatives of Russia, which is the successor state of the USSR for continuing aggression in Ukraine. “It’s so strange, shameful thing,” Putin said in an interview on Russian state television. The Russian President believes that if the commemoration ceremony could not participate in the direct participants of the camp liberation for health reasons, the organizers were to invite at least their families.
In 1940, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Auschwitz, Poland, was built in 1940 with the aim of imprisonment of the Poles. Later, more than 1.1 million people – Jews, Poles, Roma, but also Soviet prisoners of war – became the main place of mass killing of the Jews. The camp was liberated by the Red Army soldiers on January 27, 1945.
Reuters recalls that Soviet troops in 1944 and 1945 have also liberated the camps Majdanka, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück. Part of the camps such as Buchenwald or Bergen-Belsen have also liberated British and American troops.
