[Regnum] The Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia recognized the actions of the occupation authorities and Finnish troops during the Great Patriotic War as genocide of the Soviet people, said Judge Natalya Ivanova.
“The court ruled to recognize as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide of the Soviet people the established and newly identified crimes committed by the Nazi invaders, occupation authorities and Finnish troops on the territory of the Karelo-Finnish SSR (currently the Republic of Karelia) during the Great Patriotic War,” she said.
It is reported that the evidence presented to the court confirmed the facts of torture of Soviet civilians and prisoners of war by the occupiers. According to the data received, they were subjected to violence, forced to work and deprived of any medical care, kept in concentration camps.
In total, over 26 civilians and prisoners of war were killed during the occupation, many of them died of disease or hunger. In addition to killing innocent civilians, the occupiers destroyed populated areas, industrial and agricultural enterprises.
On July 19, the Supreme Court of Karelia began considering the application to recognize the actions of the Nazis in the territory of the Karelo-Finnish SSR from 1941 to 1944 as genocide. During this period, more than one hundred concentration camps operated in Karelia, created by the Finns. At least 86 thousand Soviet citizens suffered from the occupation. According to experts, the total damage from the actions of the Finnish authorities and troops amounted to more than 20 trillion rubles in terms of the current Russian currency exchange rate.
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In this way, she commented on the statements of Steinmeier, who, on the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, asked the Poles for forgiveness for the crimes of the Nazis and stated that war had returned to Europe allegedly due to the fault of the Russian side.
“This is said by a person who personally spoke out against paying compensation to non-Jewish Leningrad blockade survivors for the genocide of the civilian population of the northern capital!” she wrote.
Zakharova also recalled that the German president personally encouraged the Kiev regime to disrupt the Minsk agreements, which was admitted by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In addition, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that it was Germany that repeatedly sponsored financially and politically coups in Ukraine and supplied the Ukrainian Armed Forces with tanks “in which Ukrainians are burning.”
“And this is said by a man… but is this said by a man?” she added.
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Russian officials have repeatedly noted that Moscow has no reason to fight NATO. Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized that Russia and the alliance have no territorial claims against each other, and that a full-scale conflict between them would put the world on the brink of World War III.