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| Putin calls the memory of the victory over Nazism sacred for Russia | |
| 2024-01-27 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Russia will always remember the cost of victory over Nazism during the Second World War; the memory of this war is sacred to the country. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated this on January 26in his greeting on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The President's telegram was read by the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar at a memorial ceremony at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. “We will never forget how much grief and suffering the Second World War brought, what an irreparable price our ancestors paid for the freedom and independence of the Motherland, for the victory over Nazism and its ideology, and what legal, moral, ethical sentence was passed on those who were guilty of terrible crimes against humanity,” the head of state noted.
"This memory is sacred for us," he added. As Regnum reported, on October 25, 2023, Putin called for categorical and firm defense of the truth about the Great Patriotic War, as well as for the declassification of archives recognizing the facts of Nazi atrocities against civilians and prisoners of war. The head of state emphasized that justifying Nazism leads to tragic consequences. At the beginning of September 2023, the President pointed out that a number of European political forces are trying to distort history for the sake of their own interests. Putin emphasized that there are now many politicians in the West with this kind of approach. | |
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