The Federation Council has once again called for fully comprehending the invaluable achievement of human civilisation – Victory in the Second World War.
The Federation Council has adopted an address to foreign parliaments and people of the world on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Victory over Nazism.
The rapporteur on this topic at the 482nd session of the upper house of the Russian Parliament was Chair of the Council’s Foreign Affairs Committee Konstantin Kosachyov.
The Federation Council has called on foreign parliaments and people of the world to fully comprehend the invaluable achievement of human civilisation – the victory of the anti-Hitler coalition and all those who fought on its side over their common enemy, Nazism and its accomplices, in WWII.
The address reads, in part, that the Federation Council welcomes the joint statement adopted by the presidents of Russia and the United States on 25 April 2020 on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the meeting on the Elbe, supports the annual adoption by the UN General Assembly of the resolution on combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, as well as the proposal to adopt a UN General Assembly resolution on the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII, which has been co-authored by approximately 40 UN member states.
The Federation Council would like to remind everyone that the activities of the leading Nazi criminals, who bear full responsibility for starting and waging WWII, have been declared criminal by the International Military Tribunal for the trial and punishment of the main war criminals from the Axis countries (the Nuremberg trials).
“The decision of the International Military Tribunal has in fact put an end and full stop to the assessment of both the causes and the outcome of the war, and has clearly determined the right and the wrong parties, the guilty and the innocent, the criminals and their victims,” the address reads.
The Federation Council has pointed out that we must not forget the fundamental assessment of the Nazi leaders’ criminal activities provided at the Nuremberg trials and subsequently reaffirmed by the UN General Assembly.
The Federation Council has called on foreign parliaments and people of the world to support the initiative for declaring Victory over Nazism in WWII as global heritage and the monuments to the fighters against Nazism as a global memorial.
“Any attempts to claim that the Nazi criminals and the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition are equally responsible for starting the war, and to justify Nazi criminals and their accomplices are more than just a simple falsification of history. They are illegal, amoral and disrespectful to the memory of all those who liberated the world from an obvious and legally confirmed evil,” the document reads.
The Federation Council has condemned the desire of some political forces to justify the real culprits who started the war, to downgrade the contribution of the Soviet Union to the defeat of Nazism, and to rehabilitate those who joined the Nazi hangmen in the fight against liberators, served Nazi occupiers in Europe and are guilty of the horrendous crimes of the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity.
The Federation Council has called on foreign parliaments and people of the world to prevent the distortion of historical truth, the glorification of former members of the Waffen SS and Nazi, Fascist, Banderite and other similar movements and their current followers, and to call to account those who insult the memory of the liberators, deny the Holocaust and the extermination of the so-called non-Aryan nations, as well as glorify Nazi hangmen.
The address will be forwarded to foreign parliaments and the UN.