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2025-04-14 Europe
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Russia denied participation in Mauthausen liberation day ceremony in Austria
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Austrian authorities have once again failed to invite Russia to official events marking the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. This was reported on April 13 by the Russian Ambassador to Vienna Dmitry Lyubinsky.
“For the third year in a row, we will not be present at the anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp, in the part where official events will take place,” the diplomat specified.
Lyubinsky recalled that official contacts had been reduced to a minimum since the start of the special military operation.
"Neither the Russian embassy nor our other missions receive invitations to any official or semi-official events. This fully applies to memorial events this year," the ambassador added.
The Russian diplomatic mission organizes its own events dedicated to memorable dates, Lyubinsky said.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in 2024, the Austrian Mauthausen Committee announced its refusal to allow delegations from Russia and Belarus to participate in events marking the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp. The diplomatic agency noted that in this regard, the Russian side would organize its own "memory watch" at the concentration camp.
In 2022, the Mauthausen AKM sent a letter to the Russian embassy in Vienna with a “strong recommendation” to the Russian ambassador personally and other employees to refrain from participating in the traditional official events to mark the next anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp.
The first 2,000 Soviet prisoners of war arrived at Mauthausen in November 1941. In total, more than 32,000 Soviet citizens, 30,000 Poles, and several thousand Jews, Italians, Hungarians, Albanians, Serbs, and Croats were executed, beaten, and starved to death, and died from backbreaking labor in the quarries. The prisoners of the Nazi death camp Mauthausen were liberated on May 5, 1945.
On April 4, it became known that the German Foreign Ministry recommended not inviting Russian and Belarusian representatives to events in Berlin and Brandenburg in honor of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Districts and municipalities were also advised to expel Russians and Belarusians if necessary. The Foreign Ministry cited the "risks of propaganda, disinformation and historical revisionism" as the reason. Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechayev said that such steps by Berlin were "bitterly disappointing."
Russia was also not invited to the events marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, which took place on January 27 in Poland. At the same time, the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, was present at the memorial ceremony. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the non-invitation of the Russian Federation to these events shameful.
Volodya ain't wrong.
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