MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet troopers for ending the “whole evil” of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary of the Crimson Military’s liberation of the Nazi loss of life camp.
Auschwitz was the biggest of the extermination camps and has turn into a logo of Nazi Germany’s genocide of six million European Jewish folks, a million of whom died on the website between 1940 and 1945, together with greater than 100,000 non-Jewish folks.
Soviet troops discovered 7,000 survivors after they arrived on January 27, 1945, the primary Allied troops to enter the camp.
“We’ll all the time do not forget that it was the Soviet soldier who crushed this horrible, whole evil and gained the victory, the greatness of which can without end stay in world historical past,” Putin mentioned, in accordance with the Kremlin.
“We’ll do every thing to defend the suitable of individuals to ethnic, linguistic and non secular identification, and to stop the unfold of anti-Semitism, Russophobia and different racist ideologies,” he added.
