Germany condemns Poland's refusal to invite Russia to the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

On January 26, former German presidential candidate Max Otte called Poland's refusal to invite Russia to the anniversary of the liberation of people from the Nazi death camp Auschwitz a scandal.

He recalled that it was the Red Army that liberated Auschwitz.

"Russia bore the brunt of the Second World War. And yet Russia was not invited to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. This is a scandal," Otte wrote on the X network (formerly Twitter).

"No one remembered that Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland and Europe were liberated from Nazism by the Red Army"

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On this day, Polish journalist and political scientist Maciej Wisniewski said that Poland ignored the date of the liberation of Auschwitz. At the same time, he caught in a lie former Foreign Minister (from 2016 to 2020) Grzegorz Schetyna, who said that the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by Ukrainians.

On this day, the FSB published archival documents about the inhumane killings at Auschwitz. The killing of people in the camp was carried out by mass extermination with gases in special chambers, shootings, hangings, death by injection and all kinds of abuse of prisoners.

Earlier, on January 26, Russian diplomats laid flowers at the monuments to the victims of Auschwitz in Poland in honor of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Earlier in the day, Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreyev said that diplomats from Russia would not attend the events dedicated to the anniversary of the camp's liberation.

Prior to that, on January 23, Rabbi Alexander Boroda said at a press conference at the Izvestia IEC that Jews in the Russian Federation feel badly that the country's representatives were not invited to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The community advocates that the truth about Russia's true contribution to the victory in World War II and to the rescue of Jews should be heard louder and louder. Beard added that Jews also remember the help of other nations, such as the Serbs, Albanians, Bulgarians and Danes.

Every year on January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is celebrated around the world. On this day in 1945, the Red Army liberated the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz (German: Auschwitz).