Phnom Penh (FN), Jun. 22 — On a terrible, tragic day 80 years ago, Nazi invaders perfidiously attacked the Soviet Union. The Great Patriotic War claimed many millions of lives and affected every Soviet family. On 22 June, we bow low before the memory of the fallen.

Several days ahead of this date, we would like to note that, while talking about those days and while preparing for them, we are once again thinking about the causes of those fateful developments. The aggressive and misanthropic essence of Nazism and the policy of Axis countries was their main cause. Connivance on the part of the then leading powers and the desire of Western “democracies” to channel the Axis aggression to the East, facilitated the implementation of their aggressive plans.
As the Munich collusion showed, those powers tried to solve the problem of their security at the expense of other countries’ security and sovereignty.

In this context, allegations about a certain identity of Nazism and communism, attempts to equally blame Germany and the Soviet Union for unleashing the war, to equate henchmen and their victims, to keep quiet about the Soviet Union’s decisive contribution to crushing the Nazi war machine, to do everything possible to make the heroic feat of the Red Army soldiers-liberators seem less impressive than it really was are absolutely unacceptable, blasphemous and simply anti-historical.

Russia perceives these allegations desecrating the memory of millions of Soviet citizens who were killed while fighting Nazism as an insult. Speaking at the May 20, 2021 meeting of the Pobeda (Victory) Organising Committee, President of Russia Vladimir Putin noted that “We cannot but respond to these actions in a suitable manner. As I have repeatedly said, we will rely on facts and do everything possible to ensure the continuity of historical memory in Russian society, so that decades and centuries from now, future generations will cherish the truth about the war and display a sacred and grateful attitude towards its heroes, as well as to their ancestors.We cannot but respond to these actions in a suitable manner. As I have repeatedly said, we will rely on facts and do everything possible to ensure the continuity of historical memory in Russian society, so that decades and centuries from now, future generations will cherish the truth about the war and display a sacred and grateful attitude towards its heroes, as well as to their ancestors.we cannot but respond to these actions in a suitable manner. We will do everything possible, so that future generations will cherish the truth about the war and display a sacred and grateful attitude towards its heroes, as well as to their ancestors.”

Mrs. Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
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