Zakharova called the closure of the Russian exposition at Auschwitz a rewriting of history

The closure of the Russian part of the exposition in the museum of the former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz) is a follow-up of the general course of Western countries to rewrite history. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said this on January 29 on Sputnik radio.

"Without the Russian part, this exposition is not that it cannot be complete, it cannot be full-fledged. There can't be such a thing. The liberators were the Soviet troops, the Red Army. The people who were there also had something to do with our country," she said.

According to Zakharova, the West has begun the active phase of what "they dreamed about so clandestinely." She added that the rewriting of history is now proceeding in a more technological way, which allows not to burn books and not to close museums, writes "Gazeta.ru".

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Earlier, on January 27, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged to always remember that it was Soviet soldiers who liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp and revealed the truth about the crimes of the Nazis. He said that Moscow will continue to oppose attempts by European figures to rewrite the legal and moral verdict that was handed down to the Nazis and their accomplices.

Earlier in the day it was reported that 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.

Also 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.

Before that, on November 25, 2024, Zakharova said that Germany's refusal to recognize the genocide of Soviet peoples during the Great Patriotic War, including the siege of Leningrad, is seen by Russia as an attempt to rewrite history in favor of the Third Reich.