President Vladimir Putin yesterday slammed what he called attempts to rewrite history at a Moscow ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Speaking at a Jewish museum in Moscow, he said Nazi Germany’s crimes including the Holocaust could be neither forgiven nor forgotten.
“Any attempts to hush up these events, distort, re-write history are unacceptable and immoral,” said Putin, who is conspicuously staying away from the main events in Poland in a gesture laying bare divisions with the West over the war in Ukraine.
In the run-up to the ceremony Poland angered Moscow when its foreign minister, Grzegorz Schetyna, said …read more
Source: New Telegraph
