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14 April 2021, 18:29

Opinion: CIS states should prevent glorification of Nazism

MINSK, 14 April (BelTA) – It is a common task for all the CIS member states to thwart attempts to glorify Nazism, Russia's permanent representative at the statutory and other bodies of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Andrei Grozov told reporters on 14 April, BelTA has learned.

“Obviously, this is a common problem for our countries. The leaders of our states are fully aware of the need to join efforts to defend the historical truth about the tragic time the peoples of the former Soviet Union went through. Each of these nations made a decisive contribution to the liberation of the world from the horrors of the Nazi regime. Therefore, the CIS member states joined forces with Belarus and Russia in this work,” Andrei Grozov said.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. “It is important to tell young people, the younger generation about what our fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers had to endure in those terrible years, about the tragedy, the nightmare that befell the countries occupied by the Nazis, and the Nazi Germany itself, as well as our countries. It should never be forgotten and future generations should learn the lessons. All countries of the world should join forces not to let it happen again,” he noted.

On 14 April, the Russian documentary film Trawniki. School of Executioners was screened at the Central House of Officers of the Armed Forces of Belarus. The screening was timed to the International Day of liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. The film tells the audience about the center to train personnel for Nazi concentration camps and death factories created at the initiative of Heinrich Himmler in the town of Trawniki. The training center was to recruit Soviet prisoners of war who agreed to join the ranks of the SS. After the war, many of them managed to escape justice and returned to their families, to normal life, they became beekeepers, traders, and grew flowers. For many decades they felt completely unpunished. They tried to forget the past, but the past did not go away. They were remembered, they were looked for in order to bring them to justice.

The event was attended by representatives of the Defense Ministry, the Culture Ministry, the Information Ministry, the Education Ministry, the CIS Executive Committee, the diplomatic corps, academia, higher educational institutions, and public associations.

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