The President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin said that any attempt to revise our country's contribution to the Great Victory means the justification of the crimes of Nazism.
"The forgotten lessons of our common prior increases the probability of the cast to repeat these terrible tragedies, and because we must protect the truth about the events of the Second world war, to defend the feat, dignity, good name of the living and the dead" - he said in a statement to present the Memorial evening Requiem, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the liberation by the red army prisoners of the concentration camp Auschwitz and the International day of remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust, RIA " Novosti ". First it was announced that the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin will not go on 27 January in Poland at the events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. According to sources, Putin is not received from Warsaw official invitations to events. Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the first day of the week said that the prisoners of Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by soldiers of the red army and the Russian Federation this day is of great importance. on 21 January, the Polish foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna on Polish radio said that the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated most importantly Ukrainians. In response to this, the MPs of the state Duma expressed harsh criticism of the Polish Minister. And the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that his words were illiterate and are a mockery of history. Foreign Minister S. Lavrov Century called blasphemous and cynical statements Polish colleagues.


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