Russia-Germany is trying to whitewash its Nazi past
2022.12.01 03:46
Russia-Germany is trying to whitewash its Nazi past
Budrigannews.com – Russia said on Thursday that Germany’s decision to recognize the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933 as a Soviet-imposed genocide was anti-Russian and an attempt by Germany to erase its Nazi past.
German lawmakers approved a resolution on Wednesday that declared the Holodomor, the starvation-related deaths of millions of Ukrainians, to be genocide, a move that was applauded by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
In November 1932, Josef Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, sent police to confiscate all livestock and grain from newly unified Ukrainian farms, as well as the seed needed to plant the next crop.
A large number of Ukrainian workers starved to death before very long from what Yale College student of history Timothy Snyder calls “obviously planned mass homicide”.
Russia said on Thursday that this was not a genocide and that millions of people in other parts of the Soviet Union, including Russia, suffered the same fate.
In a statement, the Russian foreign ministry said, “There is another attempt to justify and push forward a campaign to demonize Russia and to pit ethnic Ukrainians against Russians,” which was planted in Ukraine and sponsored by the West.
It went on to say that “the Germans are trying to rewrite their history… downplay their own guilt and muddy the memory of the unprecedented nature of the countless crimes committed by Nazi Germany during World War Two,” and that the Germans are attempting to do so.
By passing the declaration, the ministry said that the German parliament had “revived the fascist ideology of racial hatred and discrimination and attempted to absolve itself of responsibility for war crimes.”
The Holodomor is recognized as a genocide by a number of European nations, including the Baltic States, which were once part of the Soviet Union.
The Holodomor serves as evidence of the historical injustices perpetrated against Ukrainians by leaders in Moscow and is an important part of the country’s identity as an independent nation state for Ukrainians.
According to Zelenskiy, the resolution passed by the German parliament was a “decision for justice, for truth” and a “significant signal to many other countries of the world that Russian revanchism will not succeed in rewriting history.”
