The director of Auschwitz recalled the “sick megalomania” of the Ukrainian war at the memorial service
WARSAW, 27 january (Reuters) – The director of the Auschwitz Memorial on Friday by Soviet troops of the Nazi German death camp free during the commemorations held in connection with the 78th anniversary of the creation of Ukraine, he compared the deaths of people in Ukraine to the suffering of the Second World War.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial preserves the Auschwitz death camp established by Nazi Germany on Polish soil during World War II. More than 1.1 million people, most of them Jewish, are in the camp gas died in their cells or from hunger, cold and disease.
“Similar sick megalomania, similar lust for power and similar-sounding myths about uniqueness, greatness, primacy… written only in Russian. “Innocent people are still dying en masse in Europe,” Piotr Cywinski said in his speech to the audience. Including Holocaust survivors.
“In the cities of Warsaw, Zamojszczyzna, Oradour and Lidice today are called the districts of Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel, Mariupol and Vola in Donetsk,” he said, referring to the sites of mass killings in World War II and Ukraine and its allies Russia he added, touching on the places where he accused his forces. from committing atrocities.
Russia denies that it deliberately targeted civilians.
He described the war as a “specific military “operation” is called. Ukraine and Western allies call it an unprovoked invasion to erase the independence of the former Soviet republic, which Moscow sees as a bogus country.
Holocaust survivors and others wearing hats and scarves in the blue and white stripes of their camp uniforms during memorial services on Friday gas they put a candle on the ruins of his cell.
Originally Polish in Poland occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940 political built to house prisoners, it became the largest of the extermination centers where Adolf Hitler’s plan to kill all Jews – the “Final Solution” – was carried out.
The camp by the Red Army on January 27, 1945 free was done.
Russia Due to the war in Ukraine, he was not invited to participate in this year’s commemorations.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the West of trying to rewrite history in a Telegram post on Thursday, saying “the memory of the horrors of Nazism and Soviet liberators cannot be erased.”
Reporting by Kuba Stezycki; Written by Alan Charlish; Edited by Alison Williams
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2023-01-28 04:09:43
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