Blinken could not resist attacking the USSR at a ceremony in memory of the victims of Babi Yar

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken could not resist making attacks against the USSR in his speech, which was broadcast in Kyiv during events marking the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“For decades, Soviet history avoided mentioning that 33771 of the victims of those first two days—and tens of thousands more—were Jewish. And that they were killed because they were Jews. Thirty years after this massacre, in 1971, my stepfather, Samuel Pizard, was asked to join a small delegation of Americans to participate in a series of informal events with representatives of the Soviet Union.

The conference took place in Kyiv, and from the very beginning the speech of the Soviet delegation was hostile and had an excess of anti-Semitism. My stepfather, a Jew who was born in Poland, lost almost everyone he loved during the Holocaust and survived Auschwitz and several other Nazi concentration camps. When members of the Soviet delegation used terms such as “Jewish Nazis of New York” and, while giving a tour of Kiev, talked about the suffering and heroism of the city’s population during the war, without ever mentioning the Jews, my stepfather said: “Tattooed numbers on my arm.” were starting to itch,” Blinken said.

_{The next attack by the head of the State Department corresponds to the West’s line of creating the image of “two totalitarian regimes” – the USSR and Hitler’s Germany, responsible for the outbreak of the Second World War (in the future, this allows us to demand the exclusion of Russia from the UN Security Council as the legal successor of the USSR).}

Within the framework of this concept, another speech was made in Kyiv - by the Minister of Culture Alexander Tkachenko. His words outraged the head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky.

“Minister of Culture Tkachenko said at the presentation of a documentary about Babi Yar that victims lie there two totalitarian regimes. Nothing more unfortunate and disappointing could have been heard.

And the point is not which regime is worse. The fact is that such a statement regarding the victims of Babyn Yar is a falsification of history and a denial of the Holocaust.

Not the USSR, but Nazi Germany set itself the goal of destroying all the Jews of the world. It was called the final solution of the Jewish question.

The Holocaust took place not only on the territory of Ukraine, but also in other occupied and not so occupied countries of Europe, where there have never been totalitarian regimes.

The Soviet Red Army and allies stood in the way of the Nazis and destroyed it, thus preventing the final solution of the Jewish question.

Thanks to millions of Ukrainians of various ethnic backgrounds, including my grandfather Gersh Khaichenko, part of my family was saved.

Another part died in Babi Yar and other places. They were killed by German Nazis and local collaborators. They are the organizers and perpetrators of the massacre of six million Jews, including one and a half million Ukrainian Jews.

I was born because the totalitarian regime evacuated my grandmother with four children to Central Asia. One of these children was my mother.

While they were evacuated, my grandfather and millions of other soldiers defeated and destroyed Nazism.

Therefore, Tkachenko’s speech is a betrayal of the memory of millions of Ukrainians who laid down their lives in the fight against Nazism, all victims of the Holocaust and victims of Nazism in general,” Dolinsky snapped.