Moscow condemns EU attempts to use Victory Day anniversary for attacks on Russia

A EU representative at the UN
General Assembly session said the
Victory brought new crimes against
humanity rather than freedom to
many European countries
MOSCOW, 5 March. /TASS/. Attempts
to
distort the truth about World War II
are an insult to the memory of the
victims of Nazism and millions of
Soviet soldiers who died for the
liberation of Europe, Russian Foreign
Ministry spokesman Alexander
Lukashevich told a briefing on
Thursday.
"We condemn the desire of the
European Union to use the upcoming
VE-Day anniversary for new attacks on
Russia," he said. "We call on the EU to
stop playing along with the openly
revanchist sentiments of some of its
members used in an opportunistic
attempt to revise the results of World
War II and the decisions of the
Nuremberg Tribunal."
Lukashevich drew attention to the
statement by a European Union
representative at the UN General
Assembly session, adopting the
resolution on the 70th anniversary of
the end of World War II, alleging that
this event brought not freedom to
many European countries, but new
crimes against humanity. The Russian
diplomat said that EU representatives
had made such statements before, in
particular, during the November 2014
vote in the UN General Assembly on
the resolution against the glorification
of Nazism and during adopting the
declaration on the 79th anniversary of
the end of World War II at a meeting
of the OSCE Council of Ministers in
Basel in December 2014.
"So the statement made by the EU
official in the UN is not accidental," he
said. "In this regard, we express our
indignation and strong opposition to
this arbitrary and blasphemous
pseudo-legal appraisal. We regret that
the EU has again done the bidding of
some of its members that are
obsessed with anti-Russian aspirations
and resorted to the absolutely
unacceptable interpretation of events
related to World War II."
Lukashevich said that after the
liberation of occupied territories by
the Red Army "numerous accounts of
atrocities and crimes committed by
Nazi Germany and its collaborators
against civilians of the Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe were collected and
documented."
"It should be emphasised that the
principles enshrined in the UN Charter
and decisions of the Nuremberg
Tribunal are recognized by the UN
General Assembly as the principles of
international law, so any EU attempts
to distort the truth about World War II
or the Nuremberg Tribunal decisions
are an insult to the memory of millions
and millions of Soviet soldiers who
sacrificed their lives for the liberation
of Europe, innocent victims of the Nazi regime.".