Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of BelarusMINSK, Mar 30Press Secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Anatoly Glaz said that the non-invitation of Belarusian diplomats to commemorative events in Buchenwald is an insult to the people who contributed to the defeat of fascism, and a spit in the face of people who survived the horrors of fascist concentration camps. Official delegations from Russia and Belarus were not invited to the ceremony dedicated to the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, the press service of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation announced earlier. «/>The Consul General told how Russia was not allowed into Buchenwald for the ceremony «Not inviting diplomats to such events is not a banal demarche, but a direct insult, first of all, to the peoples of those countries that made a decisive contribution to the defeat of fascism in Europe, and in fact a spit in the face of people who survived the horrors of fascist concentration camps,» Glaz said. His comment was spread on Wednesday by the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. The press secretary specified that the Belarusian embassy in Germany received an official letter from the director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, which informs about the undesirability of the participation of Belarusian diplomats in commemorative events organized by the German side, dedicated to the liberation of the mentioned concentration camps.Aleksey Paramonov: the fight against everything Russian in Europe borders on racism including «Buchenwald» and «Mittelbau-Dora,» Glaz said. He stressed that «Belarusian diplomats in Germany will in any case honor the memory of all victims of Nazism and prisoners of concentration camps, including Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora,» as it is there was, for example, last year when mass commemorative events were not held due to covid restrictions. distort the truth about World War II»We sincerely hope that the dialogue between Belarus and Germany on the subject of historical memory and mutual reconciliation will continue in the future, and such emotional decisions will are a one-time exception to the rule and will not cause irreparable damage to this area of interaction, «the spokesman added. Buchenwald, one of the largest Nazi concentration camps in Germany, was liberated on April 11, 1945. During World War II, the Nazis killed more than 76,000 people there.
