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The Russian embassy in Germany insists on participation in memorial occasions on the finish of the Second World War 80 years in the past and is against a advice of the Federal Foreign Office. “The 80th anniversary of victory over Nazism is a holy day for all peoples of the former Soviet Union,” says an announcement by the message on the request of the information company dpa.

The Federal Foreign Office had suggested towards admitting the participation of Russian and Belarusian representatives at memorial occasions on the finish of the Second World War. The ministry desires to forestall Russia from with the ability to “instrumentalize these events and to combine his attack war against Ukraine”.

The Russian message known as the advice “extremely unfortunate”. “We lost 27 million people in the Second World War, most of them were civilians. This war against the Soviet Union was a war of extermination, the genocide,” mentioned the message. “We do not need a special invitation to honor the memory of the Soviet liberators and the victims of Nazism in publicly accessible places and to celebrate the day of the victory.”

The Brandenburg Memorial Foundation – which incorporates the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück memorials – in response to their very own statements, plans to ask representatives of the Russian and Belarusian embassy of commemorative occasions.

In Seelow the Russian ambassador was just lately greeted in a pleasant method

In the Sachsenhausen memorial, the primary commemoration for the liberation of the focus camp 80 years in the past with Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) for May 4. On the identical day, the central commemoration of the liberation of the then Ravensbrück focus camp is to happen. The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, Claudia Roth, and Brandenburg Minister of Culture Manja Schüle (SPD) are anticipated to do that.

Russia’s ambassador in Berlin, Sergei Netschajew, had taken half in a silent reminiscence of the battle on the Seelower Höhen 80 years in the past final week. He had not been invited by the Märkisch-Oderland district and the town of Seelow, however was greeted by its representatives. The Ukrainian ambassador Oleksij Makejew, then again, sharply criticized participation-especially the sporting of the Sankt George band, a Russian army badge.