Soviet soldiers who escaped from Mauthausen concentration camp honored in Austria
In the Austrian town of Mauthausen on February 2, representatives of the Russian Embassy in Vienna and activists honored the memory of Soviet soldiers who organized the escape from the concentration camp of the same name in 1945. In addition, the descendants of the Red Army soldiers also came to pay tribute.
After the prisoner uprising on February 2, 1945, the only one in the history of Mauthausen, only 11 escapees survived.
Elena Khalevinskaya, a great-aunt of one of the concentration camp prisoners, said that her relative did not live to see the uprising - he was arrested in Block 20 a few days before it.
"My grandfather was a prisoner of block 20, he had a couple of escapes before that, he is a hero, he did not submit, did not betray the motherland," said Olga Stakhurskaya, the granddaughter of another captured Soviet soldier.
According to her, her relative was considered missing. Only in 2017, the family managed to get confirmation of his death in a concentration camp.
On February 1, Russian Ambassador to Vienna Dmitry Lyubinsky said on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the escape of Soviet soldiers from the Mauthausen concentration camp that the West's attempts to rewrite the history of World War II are doomed to failure.
On December 25, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the victory over Nazism in 1945 should be promoted as a common value for all mankind. He noted that all CIS countries remember and honor the feat of all peoples of the USSR.
In 2025, May 9 marks 80 years since the victory in the Great Patriotic War. In January 1945, the USSR army launched an offensive against Berlin. As a result of military operations at 00:43 Moscow time on May 9, the commanders-in-chief signed an act of unconditional surrender of Germany, which served as the end of the Great Patriotic War.
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