Germany called on the government to recognize the genocide of the peoples of the USSR

The German authorities should stop being silent and officially recognize the genocide of the peoples of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War (WWII). This was stated on April 19 by Sevim Dagdelen, a foreign policy expert of the German Sarah Wagenknecht Union for Reason and Justice party.

"On April 19, we commemorate the victims of the Nazi genocide against the peoples of the Soviet Union. The official recognition of this genocide by the German federal government is long overdue," Dagdelen wrote on the social network X (ex. Twitter).

In the video attached to the publication, she noted that for a long time German politicians kept silent about the fact of the genocide. At the same time, during the Second World War, the German fascists, according to her, killed more than 27 million Soviet citizens, most of whom were civilians.

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Yesterday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that by setting a new memorial date, Russia not only honors the memory of Soviet citizens who died at the hands of the Nazis, but also defends the historical truth that the collective West is fighting against. She drew attention to the practice of a selective approach to victims: some nations remain in historical memory, while others, primarily those who suffered multimillion losses, like the Soviet Union, are forgotten.

On April 8, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law punishing the denial and approval of the genocide of the Soviet people. Thus, for publicly denying the fact of genocide, one can face imprisonment for up to three years.