There is a monstrous anti-Russian campaign going on in Europe
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 of the world from Nazism.”
“Representatives of Western countries are trying to erase not only the feat of Soviet soldiers who stopped the crimes of the Nazis with a multinational fist, but deliberate steps are being taken to destroy the memory of millions of dead Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians, Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians and others, as well as their ancestors - residents of other countries whose relatives and friends died at the hands of the Nazis during the war…” the speaker said.
He referred to the materials of a study by the University of Bielefeld, which was done for the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”.
“In modern German books it is often difficult to find evidence that a Wehrmacht soldier killed someone, even on the battlefield. Moreover, he shot partisans and Jews, burned villages. It is obvious that modern writers have learned to circumvent and hush up the truth about the war. In modern Germany they often talk about the need to get out of the shadow of the past, normalize history, and free Germans from their guilt complex,” said Dibrov.
He also recalled the adoption by the European Parliament of a resolution that condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement and accused the USSR of starting World War II along with Hitler's Germany.
Based on this document, “communism and fascism are a joint and indivisible criminal past, and everything connected with it must be destroyed with a hot iron, including symbols, monuments, documents, resolutions,” Dibrov recalled.
In his opinion, it is in this light that the recent statement of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who announced that Auschwitz was liberated by soldiers of the Ukrainian Front, should be viewed, without saying that he belonged to the Red Army, where there were soldiers from all the republics of the Union.
“The archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense have been published. According to socio-demographic characteristics, the composition of the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front was international. According to the data, it included 39 nationalities, including Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Armenians, Ossetians, Georgians and many others, who participated shoulder to shoulder in the liberation of death camp prisoners. This and much more suggests that the President of Ukraine supports the position of Western countries in distorting history, forgetting about the consequences for Ukraine that Ukrainians have already faced,” Dibrov said.
Former member of the Czech Parliament Vaclav Snopek also expressed bewilderment at the blasphemous position.
“I looked very carefully at one representative of a neighboring state. On International Holocaust Day, everyone forgot about who liberated the concentration camp. They even talk about the Allies liberating the concentration camp! But no one remembered the fact that it was the army of the 1st Ukrainian Front led by Marshal Konev. This is a very important fact. This shows how history is being rewritten,” the politician was indignant.
“This needs to be constantly reminded. But I must say that for many of my compatriots this is no longer a relevant story, unfortunately,” added Snopek.
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