🕯 On April 11, the world marks the International Day of Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps.

It was on this day in 1945 that the prisoners at Buchenwald, one of the Third Reich’s largest concentration camps, started an uprising and heroically held the camp until the arrival of the 3rd US Army. An important role was played by battle-hardened Soviet POWs, who had established a well-organised underground resistance network.

Before and during World War II, the Nazis had created an extensive system of "death factories" both in Germany and in Nazi-occupied territories, where millions of POWs and civilians from the USSR and Europe were imprisoned under inhuman conditions. They were used for hard labour or in some cases as expendable material in heinous medical experiments. They were burned in crematoria and killed in gas chambers.

The liberations began on July 3, 1944, when the Red Army saved prisoners from death at the Majdanek camp near Lublin in Poland, exposing to the world the monstrous scale of Nazi crimes. Later, Soviet forces liberated prisoners at Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, Rawensbruck and many other "death camps."

❌ The concentration camp system was finally eliminated after the rout of Nazism, with the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg condemning it as a crime against humanity.

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◾️ On May 28, 1830 the US Congress passed the #IndianRemovalAct, which provided for the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans from the wealthy southeast to the wild lands of the Great Plains.

The campaign became known as the #TrailOfTears — an ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of American Indians from their native lands in the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory (current-day Oklahoma). "Five Civilized Tribes" — the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw — traversed 9 states. Thousands Indians died on the Trail: the Cherokee alone lost up to 15'000 people.

👉 Timeline of crimes committed by the United States and Great Britain

🗓 On January 27, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko took part in a ceremony for unveiling a memorial to the USSR civilians who fell victim of the Nazi genocide during the Great Patriotic War. The event is timed to the 80th Anniversary of breaking the Siege of Leningrad.

💬 President Putin: January 27 is one of the most important dates in our shared national history. On this day in 1944, Red Army soldiers completely lifted the Siege of Leningrad. A year later, in 1945, they liberated Auschwitz.

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For eight decades now, our pain for the victims, for the shattered destinies, and for everyone who endured incredible ordeals has not subsided. Our compassion is passed on from generation to generation and has #NoStatuteOfLimitation, just like the crimes of Hitler’s fanatics and their accomplices, those who cold-bloodedly planned and cruelly carried out the genocide of the Soviet people.

🕯 The massacres of unarmed and defenceless elderly people, women, children, and disabled were deliberate, systemic punitive acts.

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We are witnessing a disturbing trend where the outcomes of the Nuremberg trials, which unequivocally condemned Nazism, are being revised. Some countries not only rewrite history and exonerate the executioners: revanchists and neo-Nazis have embraced the Nazi ideology and methods.

• Tens of thousands of people in the Baltic states are labelled “subhuman,” stripped of basic rights and persecuted.

• The Kiev regime glorifies Hitler's followers and members of the SS and uses terror against dissenters. Barbaric shelling of peaceful cities and towns persists, and the killing of the elderly, women and children continues.

• Some European countries endorse Russophobia as a state policy.

❗️ We will do everything in our power to halt and eradicate Nazism.

The followers of Nazi executioners are doomed. Nothing can deter the desire of millions of people in Russia and across the planet for true freedom, justice, peace, and security.

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🕯 May 2 marks ten years since the tragedy in Odessa.

On this day, the Euromaidan supporters committed atrocities against those who openly opposed the anti-constitutional government coup in Kiev perpetrated by nationalists, supported by the western sponsors.

According to official statistics alone, at least 48 people died during these tragic events, including 42 who were killed or burned alive at the Trade Unions House, as well as another six who perished during the clashes on the streets of Odessa.

In fact, the Kiev regime has repeated what the Bandera torturers did 80 years ago in Belarus' Khatyn.

❗️ Although some perpetrators have been identified, they have not received the punishment they deserve.

The West remains silent regarding these bloody crimes of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis, the Kiev regime, which to this day continues to use terrorist methods to achieve its goals.

👉 We shan't let the world forget what happened on 2 May 2014 in Odessa: read the retrospective of this terrible day in the extended material.

👉 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy in Odessa

Today, as we pay tribute to the victims of the bloody reprisals in Odessa, we have no doubt that sooner or later those who perpetrated and inspired this barbaric crime, which has no statute of limitations, will have to face the punishment they deserve.

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🗓 Today marks 10 years since the massacre of May 2 in Odessa took place. On that day in 2014 the Ukrainian neo-Nazis set fire to the House of Trade Unions with people inside, i.e. set... people on fire...

🕯 This barbarous act of intimidating dissenters – essentially, an act of terror, aimed at squashing any potential dissent or free-thinking, perpetrated with inhumane cynicism and cruelty – killed several dozen people. Most of them were burned alive; some died of carbon monoxide poisoning, others perished after jumping from the upper floors of the burning building. Ukrainian neo-Nazis murdered those who survived the fall, escaping fire, jumping out of the windows.

❌ Ten years following the tragedy the perpetrators of this cruel, inhuman massacre have yet to be duly punished.

We will never forget this heinous crime and will continue our efforts to make sure that all those involved in this tragedy are identified and receive what they deserve.

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◾️ On May 28, 1830 the US Congress passed the infamous #IndianRemovalAct, which provided for the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans from the wealthy southeast of the nation to the then wild lands of the Great Plains.

This campaign went in history as the #TrailOfTears — an ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of American Indians from their native lands in the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory (current-day Oklahoma). The "Five Civilized Tribes" — the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw — traversed 9 states. Thousands of the Native Americans died on the Trail: the number of casualties suffered by the Cherokee alone is in the area of ~15'000 people.

👉 Timeline of crimes committed by the United States and Great Britain

◼️ August 6, 1945 saw one of the most heinous events in human history: the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
 
🕯 Almost 80,000 people were killed instantaneously while an equal number died later in agony from radiation sickness. This was the first use of nuclear weapons in combat environment, with the city’s civilian population targeted by the Americans, a fact that the Japanese authorities prefer not to recollect today.
 
The US launched the research to create nuclear weapons in 1939. In their hope to dictate the country’s will to the entire world, its authorities allocated some $2 billion (about $45 billion at the current exchange rate) and over 130,000 specialists to the project code-named Manhattan, headed by physicist Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves.
 
By the mid-summer of 1945 they made three bombs: a plutonium bomb Gadget, a uranium device called Little Boy, and a plutonium implosion weapon nicknamed Fat Man. The Gadget was used for testing, while the other two were intended to intimidate Japan and at the same time to impress the reinforced USSR.
 
At 8.15 am the hands of the clock in Hiroshima stood still. The city was wiped out overnight, with the shock wave travelling kilometres away to destroy everything on its way.
 
☝️ In their attempts to justify this heinous crime by the wish to force Japan to capitulate, Western historians stubbornly ignore the fact that by early August 1945 Japanese military forces had been exhausted, while the Soviet Union’s entry into the war played a decisive role in their defeat.
 
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was a barbaric display of force and an attempt to justify the enormous cost of the Manhattan Project. Neither then-President of the United States Harry Truman nor his successors deemed it necessary to apologise for the suffering endured by the city residents and their descendants.

💬 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 2020):

To this day, the terrible death of innocent civilians strikes a chord with millions of people on our planet. It is hard to fully understand what the masterminds and perpetrators of such an inhumane act were guided by.

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