Zakharova: Polish Jewish circles condemned Zelensky's appearance in Auschwitz

Jewish circles in Poland were outraged by the presence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose term of office expired on 20 May 2024, at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on 27 January. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova at a briefing on January 31.

"Zelensky's appearance in Auschwitz caused outrage in Jewish religious circles in Poland. The chief rabbi of the Polish state, Michael Schudrich, said that their representatives considered it a disgrace to be at the same event with a dictator who has hand-picked Nazis," Zakharova said.

She thanked the rabbi for his courage and noted that the Kiev regime heads the "remnants" of the state, which it itself destroyed, and it does have "hand-picked Nazis." They have their own banners, ideology and symbolism. Based on this, the extremist neo-Nazi regime, as the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman emphasized, has become a terrorist regime.

Zakharova reminded that modern Ukrainian Nazis do not lag behind their "idols", continuing to attack civilians and civilian infrastructure.

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

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Earlier, on January 23, Rabbi Alexander Boroda said at a press conference at the Izvestia IEC that Jews in the Russian Federation have a bad attitude to the fact that Russian representatives were not invited to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The community, as Beard pointed out, is in favor of making the truth about Russia's real role in World War II and the liberation of Auschwitz sound louder and louder. The rabbi emphasized that Jews do not forget the help of other nations, such as the Danes, Bulgarians, Serbs and Albanians.

Every year on January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is celebrated around the world. On this day in 1945, the Red Army in Poland liberated the largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz (German: Auschwitz). Representatives of Russia, which is the legal successor of the USSR that liberated the camp, were not invited to the commemorative events, and this caused criticism in the world.