Russian ambassador says attempts in Germany to silence the role of the USSR in the victory over Nazism

Germany is trying to gloss over the decisive role of the Red Army in defeating Nazism and liberating the world from the "brown plague". This was stated by Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechayev to Izvestia.

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"This (attempts in the FRG to rewrite the history of World War II - Ed.) finds expression in attempts to silence and gradually erode basic concepts, first of all, the decisive role of the Red Army in defeating Nazism and liberating the world from the "brown plague", as well as the colossal sacrifices of the Soviet people laid on the altar of Victory. The topic of German responsibility here in recent years has preferred to focus mainly on the crimes of the Holocaust. The terrible atrocities of the Third Reich and its accomplices, which were committed on the territory of the Soviet Union as part of the war of annihilation, including the siege of Leningrad, the German authorities refuse to recognize as genocide and proactively try not to recall," the diplomat said.

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