Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to the United States Anatoly Antonov. File photoWASHINGTON, Jan 28 Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov, in an op-ed for The Washington Times on Holocaust Remembrance Day, said that Moscow is seeing attempts to distort the historical truth about World War II in some countries, and emphasized the importance of protecting the truth.
"We are now witnessing a cynical policy of distorting historical truth. Memorials to the victors of fascism are being dismantled in Ukraine, the Baltic countries and Poland. There is an obvious desire to erase the memory of the feat of the Soviet liberator soldier, whom they are trying to put on a par with the Nazi executioners. It got to the point that some countries of Eastern Europe regularly hold marches in honor of the punitive SS units, whose hands were covered in the blood of hundreds of thousands of civilians, including the elderly, women and children", — he wrote.
Antonov noted that similar «troubling trends also affect the United States», where it has become a common practice to belittle the USSR's contribution to the fight against Nazism and exclude Russia from the list of winners in World War II. «The memory of the union should help us build genuine partnerships relations in the fight against modern challenges and threats,” he concluded. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is celebrated in the world on January 27, a memorable date established by the UN General Assembly in 2005 On this day in 1945, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz (Oswiecim) death camp.