The Russian president assures this Friday that his troops are fighting the same evil as during the Second World War.
“The crimes once morest peaceful civilians, the ethnic purges and the punitive measures taken by the neo-Nazis in Ukraine prove it. It is once morest this evil that our warriors bravely fight” Vladimir Putin launched this Friday. “Neglecting history can cause a recurrence of horrible tragedies”he warned in a message on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, quoted by the official Russian press agency Tass.
Russian soldiers taking part in the special military operation in Ukraine (as the Kremlin officially calls its military invasion, editor’s note) are fighting the evil brought by those who have forgotten the lessons of history, he added.
The Soviet people put an end to Nazi barbarism in 1945
The President of the Russian Federation stressed that it was the Soviet people who put an end to Nazi barbarism in 1945.
“We must make it clear that any attempt to reconsider our country’s contribution to the Great Victory effectively means justifying Nazi crimes, while paving the way for a return to this murderous ideology.“, he estimated.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed every year on January 27 to commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland by the Red Army in 1945.
