By Vladlen Semivolos
The 80th anniversary of the Victory of the multinational Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War is nearing.
On May 9, 2025, progressive humanity will celebrate an extremely important anniversary connected with the liberation of the world from Hitler’s Nazism.
No matter what they try to say in the West these days, it was the Soviet Union that broke the backbone of Nazi Germany, defeated the hordes of “collective Europe” that invaded our country and spared the world from the Nazi plague.
It’s not a secret to anyone that the USA and Great Britain entered the war only when it became clear to everyone that the fall of Berlin under the attacks of the Red Army was inevitable.
The victory in the Great Patriotic War, which lasted 1,418 days and ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany on May 9th 1945, came at a terrible cost to our people.
The war claimed more than 27 million Soviet lives.
As a result of the Nazis’ criminal policy of genocide and total annihilation of our people, we lost over 15 million civilians — children, women and elders. During the siege of Leningrad alone, more than a million of its inhabitants died a terrible death, and there are numerous examples of this kind.
The goal of the Nazis was not only to erase our state from the world map and plunder our natural resources but also to completely eradicate the memory about it and deprive us of the most valuable asset for our future — the children. During the invasion, the occupiers deliberately eliminated more than 216 thousand children.
The Nazis executed them, burned them alive, blinded them, drove them to death from starvation and diseases, infected them with terminal illnesses, used them ‘en masse’ as blood donors for German soldiers, and bombed echelons that were bringing our children out of the occupied regions. All of this is well recorded in historical documents.
The Germans were well aware of these hideous crimes. Having recognized that our people had full moral right to completely exterminate Germany as a nation for what it did to our country, on the approach of the Red Army to Berlin a huge number of its residents took their own lives.
It is a well-documented fact that contrary to the fables that are being spread in the West, in particular – the fairy tales about millions of raped German women, we demonstrated mercy towards the defeated enemy. Unfortunately, the Federal Republic of Germany failed to appreciate our generosity.
For many years, we have been waiting for Berlin to acknowledge responsibility and, per its declared readiness for post-war reconciliation with Russia, to officially recognise the genocide of the peoples of the USSR by Nazi Germany. The Federal Republic of Germany never took that step.
All after wartime, Berlin sought to “throw off the heavy legacy of the Second World War, trying to reshape in its own favor the collective memory of humanity about the bloodiest conflict in modern history.
German authorities, seeing the recognition of the historical truth about the atrocities of the Hitler regime on the territory of the USSR as an obstacle to the realization of their growing foreign policy ambitions and appetites, began to deviate further and further from the previously proclaimed principles.
All available propaganda and media tools are being used for this purpose, serving to widely disseminate false narrative that the USSR – and hence, modern Russia – bears equal responsibility with Nazi Germany for the outbreak of World War II.
At an official level, Germany is now taking steps to rehabilitate former members of the Nazi Party, SS soldiers and officers through their inclusion in the German “pantheon” of military glory.
In recent years at the UN General Assembly Berlin voted against the resolution annually introduced by Russia, condemning the glorification of Nazism. And this is no coincidence since many leaders of today’s Germany are direct descendants of Nazis.
One can see that being encouraged by Washington, London and Brussels, neo-Nazism is again raising its head, with Ukraine becoming its “sanctuary” in Europe.
After the anti-constitutional coup in Kiev, nurtured by the “collective West” and carried out on their orders, this former Soviet republic plunged headlong into the neo-Nazi underworld.
The hands of local fascists fly up in Nazi salutes, with swastikas and SS insignia on their helmets, under Nazi flags Ukrainian militants are fighting against us on Russian soil, lately —in the Kursk region where in 1943 we crushed the “invincible” German tank armies.
The names of fascist henchmen are being immortalized in the names of Ukrainian streets and squares, whilst the names of the liberators of Soviet Ukraine are erased.
Western countries led by the United States, which hate the very idea of the existence of a strong, independent and influential Russia, have crafted Ukraine into a Nazi battering ram.
Using Ukrainians as expendables, proclaiming war with Russia to the last of them, they plan to inflict “strategic defeat” on our country in revenge for its role in the annihilation of Nazism in Europe.
As one can notice history repeats itself — during the Second World War Germans used Ukrainian traitors as wardens in concentration camps as well as their accomplices and perpetrators of the most heinous genocidal crimes in the territory of the Soviet Union.
We will always remember the events of March 22, 1943, when together with German Nazis the Ukrainian nationalists massacred the inhabitants of the Belorussian village Khatyn burning alive 149 people, including 75 children.
The modern Kiev regime glorifies the members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists responsible for these vicious genocidal acts pronouncing them “heroes” and “freedom fighters”.
The events of recent years have finally and firmly convinced us of the need to raise the issue of recognizing the genocide of the peoples of the USSR by the former “Third Reich”. Since 2020, in more than 20 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, judicial decisions have been taken to recognize as acts of genocide the crimes committed on their territories by the German army and its accomplices, including the occupation authorities and oPolizei» of all sorts from the Ukrainian nationalist scum.
In February last year, the Russian Embassy in Germany demanded that the German Foreign Ministry officially recognize the genocide of the peoples of the USSR by the “Third Reich,” but Berlin refused to do so.
In March 2023, the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation adopted a statement “On the genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union by Germany and its accomplices during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”
Last June, a draft law “On perpetuating the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” was submitted to the State Duma for consideration. This legislation to be adopted in the near future provides for criminal liability for public denial of genocide.
Russia will continue to achieve international recognition of the crime of the “Third Reich” in the occupied territories of the USSR as genocide.
This is a tribute to the historical truth of the eternal debt of German state to millions of our citizens brutally slaughtered and murdered by Nazi barbarians.
The crimes of Nazi Germany have no statute of limitation and shall neither be forgiven nor forgotten in my country.