“Of course, this is an unfortunate story, especially due to the fact that just a couple of weeks ago, at the end of April, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the meeting on the Elbe, Presidents Putin and Trump adopted a joint statement, which gave principled assessments of that victory and that contribution which this victory brought to the modern world order, ”Lavrov said.
He recalled that at the Holocaust Forum, US Vice President Mike Pence, speaking about the release of Auschwitz, did not mention Soviet soldiers.
“Frankly speaking, it doesn’t surprise me when such things sound, and not because we suspect any particular American politician in deliberately obscuring the history - this is the result of processing public consciousness, including politicians, as it turns out,” the head noted MFA.
According to him, they "did not develop immunity from what spreads propaganda that is trying to put the Nazis and those who liberated Europe from the brown plague, who are trying to hold the Soviet Union equally responsible with Hitler Germany for unleashing the Second World War" .
Earlier, the White House in its official account on social networks said that the United States and Great Britain won the victory over Nazism. However, the message did not mention the contribution of the Soviet Union.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow intends to hold a serious conversation on this subject with American officials.