Holocaust Remembrance Day: Putin blames ‘neo-Nazis in Ukraine’ for crimes against civilians

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This is a rhetoric that the Russian president often uses to justify the military invasion

On today’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin today accused “neo-Nazis in Ukraine” of committing crimes against civilians.

“Forgetting the lessons of History leads to the repetition of terrible tragedies. “The proof is in the crimes against civilians, the ethnic cleansing (and) the punitive actions organized by the neo-Nazis in Ukraine,” Putin said in a statement.

“It is against this evil that our soldiers fight bravely,” he added.

This is a rhetoric that the Russian president often uses to justify the military invasion of Ukraine.

Putin has repeatedly denounced what he calls “genocide” of the Russian-speaking populations of eastern Ukraine and has called Volodymyr Zelensky’s regime “neo-Nazi.”

“Any attempt to review our country’s contribution to the Great Victory (during World War II) is in fact tantamount to justifying the crimes of Nazism, paves the way for the revival of its murderous ideology,” the Russian president said in the statement he released the Kremlin.

Putin also expressed regret for “the millions of innocent dead — Jews, members of other nationalities — who were slaughtered, tortured, who died of hunger and disease during the Holocaust.

In a rare exception this year, because of the war with Ukraine, according to Warsaw, representatives of Russia were not invited to the commemorations of the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in southern Poland.

Until now, Russia has always participated in the celebrations that take place every year on January 27.

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