The welcoming address of the head of state to the participants and guests of the Memorial Keeper of the Memorial evening dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust was published on the Kremlin website.
Putin noted that the Holocaust is one of the darkest pages of world history.
“The crimes of the Nazis and their minions have no statute of limitations, they have neither forgiveness nor oblivion. Any attempts to silence these events, rewrite history are unacceptable and immoral, ”the message said.
The Russian leader recalled that everyone’s duty is to remember the millions who died in World War II and the decisive contribution of the Red Army to the victory and liberation of all peoples from Nazism.
“Our common duty is to preserve and pass on the truth to future generations ... about millions of people killed in gas chambers, tortured in concentration camps and ghettos, dead from disease and hunger, that the Red Army put an end to these unheard-of atrocities,” he emphasized. Putin
Putin said earlier that Russia would create an archival center to prevent the West from perverting the history of World War II.
Leading researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergei Fedorov, in an interview with the FBA “Economics Today” expressed the opinion that Western Europe will not follow Poland in insinuations about the Second World War.