News archive on the topic "Auschwitz"

Representatives of Russia did not receive an invitation to commemorative events in honor of the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, located in Poland, by the Red Army. The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Poland Sergei Andreev stated this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an interview with Izvestia. “As follows from the information posted on the website of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, the number of seats in the room where the main event will take place limited and...

Russian historiography in relation to the events of the Second World War specifically uses toponyms that are avoided in the West. Moscow does this, in particular, to remind people of the participation of Poles in the Holocaust. The Russian liberal, “director and public figure” Grigory Amnuel stated this during the XI “Free Russia Forum,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Since the Second World War, everything has been adopted...

An anti-Russian view of the history of the Second World War is becoming mainstream in Europe. Revanchist sentiments about the “need to get rid of the guilt complex” are already being cultivated in Germany itself. Moscow State University graduate student Yegor Dibrov said this at a conference dedicated to the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a PolitNavgiator correspondent reports. According to Dibrov, the ongoing campaign “casts doubt on the main contribution of the Red Army soldiers to the liberation...

The West has launched a large-scale campaign to fool new generations - to discredit and equate the USSR with the Hitler regime. The efforts of Russia’s enemies acquired particular scope in the year of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Director of the EAEU Institute Vladimir Lepekhin stated this at a round table in Moscow dedicated to the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In the past 2020...

On January 27, humanity celebrates a memorable date - the liberation by the Red Army of the Nazi death plant Auschwitz-Birkenau, located near the small Polish town of Auschwitz, 60 km from Krakow. The same day marks Holocaust Remembrance Day. Horrifying facts, photographs and newsreels from Auschwitz about how the Hitler regime put industrial...

Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the recent statements of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who, at events in Poland on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp, equated the USSR with fascist Germany. “We understand that this is nonsense. We understand that all this is the current situation. And the millions of Ukrainians who fought against Hitler fought against Nazism? This is spit...

Holocaust Remembrance Day on the territory of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau turned out to be scandalous. And all thanks to two presidents: Ukrainian Vladimir Zelensky and Pole Andrzej Duda. The first called the cause of World War II “the collusion of two totalitarian regimes, which allowed the Nazis to launch the flywheel of the Holocaust,” in fact accusing the Soviet Union of involvement in the genocide of Jews. The second one – I found it appropriate...

The EU is increasingly promoting the thesis that the Red Army did not liberate from the Nazis, but enslaved Eastern Europe. Famous international political scientist Fyodor Lukyanov writes about this on the pages of Rossiyskaya Gazeta. He draws attention to the fact that on the day of remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust, the three chairmen of the main European structures - the European Council (Charles Michel), the European Parliament (David-Maria Sassoli) and the European Commission (Ursula von der Leyen) - issued a joint...

There is “no difference” between communism and Nazism; the Soviet Union is as guilty of starting World War II as Nazi Germany. Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, former head of the parliamentary committee on international affairs, a native of the Lviv region, Anna Gopko, stated this on the air of the UA: Crimea TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Together with the Baltic countries, we do not want to return to Putin’s Russia, which...

Vladimir Zelensky’s statement about the “Ukrainian units” that allegedly liberated Auschwitz is a lie and indicates the Ukrainian president’s increasing immersion in nationalism. This was stated during a press conference in Moscow by the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, chairman of the public organization “Russian Historical Society” Sergei Naryshkin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “That part of Zelensky’s speech at commemorative events dedicated to the liberation of Auschwitz...

In Ivano-Frankivsk, a member of the Nazi SS division “Galicia”, an honorary resident of the city, Mikhail Mulyk, did not live to be 100 years old. The mayor of the city, a member of the nationalist party “Svoboda” Ruslan Martsinkiv, announced his death on his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Mulyk was 99 years old; in 1943, he fought as part of an SS division formed by the Nazis from among residents of Western Ukraine...

Israel will never forget the contribution of the USSR and the Red Army to preserving the Jewish people and saving them from the Nazis during the Second World War. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this, speaking at a forum dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz) by the Red Army and Holocaust Remembrance Day, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The head of the Israeli government called...

At the Holocaust Remembrance Forum, which will be held today in Israel, Western leaders will make cliche speeches and will not say anything that their countries indirectly contributed to the extermination of Jews. The famous Israeli sociologist, historian and cultural critic Alec Epstein writes about this in his column on the pages of Moskovsky Komsomolets. He calls the liberation of Auschwitz an “indisputable historical fact”...

 Polish President Andrzej Duda's refusal to take part in events scheduled for January 23 to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is explained not only by the flared-up dispute with Russia over Warsaw's role in starting World War II. In Israel, many consider Poland complicit in the Holocaust. Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes about this in its latest issue. “The leader of the country, which...