Head of the state Duma international Affairs Alexei Pushkov said that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was not afraid to acknowledge the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet soldiers.

Merkel in her speech at the event, dedicated to the memory of the dead in the concentration camp of Auschwitz, recalled the role of the Soviet soldiers in the liberation of the prisoners." Hands-on PACE undermined his reputation no word mentioning today about who liberated Auschwitz. Merkel to admit It was not afraid, " Pushkov wrote in his own microblog on Twitter.


first Pushkov said that PACE said the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz moment of silence, but her Head Anne Brasseur not even mentioned who he was released. Ceremony on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz took place in the Palace of Europe in Strasbourg, in which the working PACE.

last week on Polish radio, Minister of foreign Affairs of Poland Grzegorz Schetyna said that the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Auschwitz was liberated by the Ukrainians, because this operation was carried out by forces of the First Ukrainian front. This statement caused a wave of indignation. The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century said that trying to play on some nationalist feelings in this situation absolutely blasphemous and obscene. In the Russian foreign Ministry noted that we All know that Auschwitz was liberated by the troops of the red Army, which fought heroically all nationalities.

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