Russian Foreign Minister Sergei LavrovMOSCOW, Jan 27Countering attempts to revise the results of World War II should be one of the key priorities of the international community, this task is especially relevant against the background of the vigorous rehabilitation of Nazis and collaborators in a number of Western countries and in Ukraine, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. «The Nazi regime brought incalculable suffering to humanity. The mass destruction by the Nazis of Jews and members of other ethnic groups, including millions of Russians, is a direct result of a criminal policy built on the principles of racial superiority.Our sacred duty is to preserve the memory of the victims of the «brown plague» and continue to honor those who, at the cost of their lives, freed the world from it horrors,» Sergey Vershinin, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, read Lavrov's message to the participants of the «Keeper of Memory» memorial evening.International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the HolocaustThe Minister stressed in his message that today it is important to do everything possible so that such atrocities never happen again. Therefore, «countering attempts to revise the results of World War II, an uncompromising fight against nationalism, extremism, and religious intolerance should remain among the key priorities on the international agenda.» Such work is all the more in demand because in a number of Western countries, as well as in Ukraine, Nazis and collaborators, the activities of various kinds of radicals are activated, propaganda of Russophobia, anti-Semitism, and other xenophobic ideas is intensifying,» he added. resolution condemning Holocaust denialThe charitable memorial evening was organized by the Russian Jewish Congress. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is celebrated around the world on January 27, a memorial date established by the UN General Assembly in 2005. On this day in 1945, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz death camp.
