May eighth celebration: These politicians took half within the reception of the Russian embassy | EUROtoday

Some properly -known energetic and former politicians additionally took half in a reception of the Russian embassy in Berlin on the eightieth anniversary of the top of the struggle. The former GDR head of state Egon Krenz, the BSW politician and former left-wing chairman Klaus Ernst in addition to the BSW politician and former left-wing member of the Bundestag Sevim Dagdelen had been seen on the entrance. In entrance of the message on the road Unter den Linden and on the Soviet cenotaph close to the Brandenburg Gate, supporters of Ukraine protested towards Russia’s struggle of aggression.

BSW politician Ernst had introduced his look just a few days in the past and mentioned that he had “no reservations at all”. In the interview, he emphasised: “On the contrary: that this is viewed critically is the problem for me. The Soviet Union has borne the main burden of the liberation of Germany from fascism and had to complain about most of the dead.”

At that point, the Soviet Union was not solely Russia, but additionally the Ukraine and quite a few different unbiased states in the present day. Ernst continued that the victory towards Hitler-Germany “saved me personally from growing up in fascism”.

Because of the Russian struggle of aggression towards Ukraine, the Federal Foreign Office had really useful that state representatives of Russia not invite to reminiscence of the top of the struggle 80 years in the past, which the BSW politician had criticized and mentioned of “revisionism”: “Everything is damn per se. For me, this is part of the preparations for war against Russia.” Some don’t see May eighth as a liberation from fascism, however as a defeat: “This defeat should now be put into perspective.”