[REGNUM] French Foreign MinisterJean-Yves le Drian's statement that the popularity of neo-Nazism in Ukraine does not exceed the European average raises questions. On July 31, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova wrote about this in her telegram channel .
"Now I am already shocked, because everyone has long known about the Azov battalion, but not about the fact that in Europe is even worse," writes Zakharova. "And here questions arise not to Kiev, but to that part of Europe for which neo-Nazism, it turns out, is not a threat."
We will remind, earlier the French senator Natalie Gulet said that during her visit to Kiev, she witnessed how they openly trade in Nazi symbols, and also record volunteers in the neo-Nazi regiment "Azov".
In turn, at the request of Gulet, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian noted that neo-Nazis are indeed present in Ukraine, but they are "of little influence."
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Via Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[IZ] In the course of work within the framework of the No Statute of Limitations project in the Olonets region of Karelia, search engines discovered the burial place of prisoners of concentration camps created by the Finnish invaders during the Great Patriotic War. This was reported on August 4 by the Izvestia correspondent.
The archive released by the Ministry of Defense contains hundreds of evidences of massacres of prisoners of war and civilians
The burial was found the day before. According to the head of the search group "Olonets operational group" Oleg Levashov, representatives of the Rostov group of the "Search movement of Russia" found a burial near the village of Ilyinsky in the Republic of Karelia. Searchers found the remains of two women, one of them about 16 years old, who was shot.
"Olonets operational group" was the designation of a Soviet Combat formation during WWII, part of the Soviet 7th Army operating in Karelia, so is being used as a group name of those searching out the history of pogroms against Russians/Soviet during WWII.
According to archival documents, the burial site is located at the crossroads of three concentration camps in the Olonets district, the total number of victims of which is more than 8,000 civilians. According to Levashov, the search engines found this place based on the memories of local residents.
Finnish troops occupied the Olonets region by the middle of autumn 1941. On the Finnish-controlled territory of the Karelo-Finnish SSR in 1941-1944, several dozen concentration camps for civilians were created. By the beginning of 1942, there were about 24,000 people in them.
According to the archives, they mainly contained Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians. The territory was liberated by Soviet troops in the summer of 1944 during the Svir-Petrozavodsk operation.
The Olonets region of the Republic of Karelia has become a traditional place for the patriotic action "Watch of Memory", where search engines from all over Karelia and neighboring regions come annually.
Earlier, on July 6, search engines discovered the burial place of Nazi victims in Salsk in Rostov region. According to a group in the social network VKontakte, Mius-Front, more than 3,500 civilians were shot at the clay pit of a brick factory in the city from August 1942 to January 1943. The information center "No statute of limitations" notes that people died en masse because of the hard work at this plant, where they were forced to work for the invaders.
Says Rozhin:
Yes, those same Finnish concentration camps organized by the same Mannerheim, to whom Ivanov and Medinsky recently tried to open a memorial plaque.
This story actually has one undoubted merit in the long run. The scandal with an attempt to hang a memorial plaque to Hitler's ally has actualized the topic of studying war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Finnish invaders on the territory of the USSR.
And the documents began to be in the archives of the FSB and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and eyewitness accounts that had long been forgotten, and the graves with the burials of the victims of the army of the "good tsarist officer."
Good luck to the searchers and archivists in their future work, considering even the known materials about the crimes of the Finns, in Karelia there are probably still many such terrible testimonies awaiting their discoverers. Needless to say, one should think about a large memorial in memory of the victims of the Finnish occupation. In case you're interested (and I can't imagine anyone on this forum would be) a site that chronicles the excavations and the history thereof, can be found here.
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