Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko said that it is important to preserve the truth about the events of World War II, and in the future to stop any attempts of anti-Semitism, chauvinism and xenophobia, the website of the upper house of Parliament reports.
“It is important to preserve the historical truth about the events of the bloodiest war of the XX century, the decisive role of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition in the victory over fascism. It is necessary to educate the youth in patriotism, respect for the fallen and living heroes who defeated the aggressor, freed the world from the brown plague. In the future, it is necessary to stop any attempts to manifest chauvinism and xenophobia, to prevent genocide and anti-Semitism,” Matvienko said in a statement timed to the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust.
The head of the SF recalled that hundreds of thousands of citizens of the Soviet Union were subjected to terror and violence by German soldiers, and from 1941 to 1945, millions of people of different nationalities, most of whom were Jews, were killed in the death camps of Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec and others.
“The mass extermination of innocent people during the Second World War does not cease to terrify today. We will honor the courage of those who survived the occupation, deportation, humiliation, who withstood and were not broken. Low bow and bright memory to the innocently deceased,” Matvienko said.
Earlier in January, it was reported that a tourist was detained for a Nazi greeting at the gates of Auschwitz. For public propaganda of Nazism, she faces a sentence of imprisonment for up to two years.
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