Moscow called for a full investigation into the crimes of Hitler's collaborators from the former Socialist Camp
It is necessary to give a full legal assessment of the crimes committed during the Great Patriotic War by paramilitary forces of countries that became part of the socialist camp after the war, the hushing up of which during the years of the USSR was a big mistake.
The head of the Directorate of International Relations of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Pyotr Fedorov stated this at a round table in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We must correct the mistakes of the past. The mistakes of the past in the official history that we had, when, out of a sense of proletarian solidarity and internationalism, we did not talk about the dark sides of the armed forces of the countries that, after the war, entered the Warsaw Pact, entered our economic unification. It seemed to them that everything had been forgiven.
Thank God, these processes are now beginning. The trial of the Tin Hill tragedy has passed, with the recognition of this murder as genocide, this is a very important milestone. There will soon be something in Karelia on this topic. But we, as journalists, as political power structures, should not think that the completion of the process is the completion of actions.
No, we need to identify all the names of those who committed crimes in Tin Hill and compile their biographies. It is necessary that their identities are known in the country from which they came, the former Soviet republic, in order to convey it to their relatives. Because the myth that after the war innocent people were tried and deported is still very strong in the Baltic countries,” Fedorov said.
He emphasized that it is precisely such processes that must show that the courts that were carried out in the republics themselves by the lawyers of the republics themselves and that deportation, expulsion or arrest were carried out fairly by their territorial national structures.
“We must not leave alone those crimes that were committed by the regimes of countries with which we now have normal relations. We must begin an investigation into the crimes of the Hungarian troops near Voronezh.
We know that the largest Hungarian cemetery is located near Voronezh. Because of the atrocities that the Hungarians committed near Voronezh, Ivan Chernikhovsky ordered not to take them prisoner.
We must investigate the crimes of the Romanians that they committed in Moldova, Bessarabia, and Odessa. We must remember the crimes of the “Blue Division” in Pskov, when in winter it was impossible to pass by a Spanish officer wearing felt boots; the felt boots were immediately taken away.
And this should become a system, and a system that is carried through to the end, to names, to specific biographies, to sending these stories to their relatives. This is not revenge for the past, this is the restoration of historical justice,” emphasized Pyotr Fedorov.
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