MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet troopers for ending the “complete evil” of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary of the Pink Military’s liberation of the Nazi loss of life camp.
Auschwitz was the biggest of the extermination camps and has develop into a logo of Nazi Germany’s genocide of six million European Jewish individuals, a million of whom died on the web site between 1940 and 1945, together with greater than 100,000 non-Jewish individuals.
Soviet troops discovered 7,000 survivors after they arrived on January 27, 1945, the primary Allied troops to enter the camp.
“We’ll at all times keep in mind that it was the Soviet soldier who crushed this horrible, complete evil and received the victory, the greatness of which can eternally stay in world historical past,” Putin mentioned, in line with the Kremlin.
“We’ll do the whole lot to defend the best of individuals to ethnic, linguistic and non secular id, and to stop the unfold of anti-Semitism, Russophobia and different racist ideologies,” he added.