Andrew Korybko
Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev declined to attend
for these reasons even though anyone was officially allowed to participate even
without an invitation. In his words, “They
published a message that there will be events - whoever wants, let them go.
Theoretically, we can, of course, appear there, but attend an event at which no
one will remember who liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp and Europe...
We don't need it. We will mark this anniversary in our own circle and
appropriately.”
Nevertheless, Putin still sent a message to the participants and guests of that ceremony, writing in part that “The citizens of Russia are the direct descendants and heirs of the victorious generation. We will steadfastly and resolutely oppose any attempts to alter the legal and moral judgment passed on the Nazi executioners and their collaborators.” He also reaffirmed his sacred pledge to “actively fight against the spread of anti-Semitism, Russophobia, and other forms of racist ideologies.”
Although BBC Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg just headlined a
piece alleging that “Russia focuses on Soviet victims of WW2 as officials not invited
to Auschwitz ceremony”, the reality is that Russia in general and
Putin in particular have always drawn a lot of attention to the Nazis’ genocide
of Jews. This was importantly recognized by Bibi, who invited Putin as his
guest of honor to participate in January 2020’s “Remembering The Holocaust: Fighting Antisemitism Forum”
in Jerusalem.
His successor Naftali Bennett then said in
October 2021 that “I want to tell you on behalf of our country, the whole of
our people that we regard you as a very close and true friend of the State of
Israel.” This was due to the excellent relations that he helped cultivate between
Russia and the Jewish State since 2000 as well as everything that he’d done to
ensure widespread remembrance of the Holocaust. Far from being an anti-Semite like
some have falsely claimed, Putin is a actually proud lifelong philo-Semite.
These facts should inoculate readers from the outright lies and
deliberately misleading reporting about Russia’s commemoration of International
Holocaust Remembrance Day that are meant to justify its exclusion from the
latest event. Such gatherings will always be incomplete without Russia since
it’s the successor state of the Soviet Union whose multiethnic and religiously
diverse Red Army liberated Auschwitz, where Jews, Soviet POWs, Poles (the camp’s first prisoners),
and others were genocided.
Western politicians can still hate Russia while their historians
might continue to argue that the USSR’s goal in World War II was to eliminate
the existential threat that the Nazis posed to it, not necessarily to liberate
the death camps and occupied countries, without excluding Russia from
Auschwitz-related events. Refusing to invite its representatives is
disrespectful to the victims, survivors, and their descendants, and it also
facilitates efforts to revise history by mitigating the Soviets’ leading role
in defeating Hitler.
Andrew Korybko, Substack, January 27, 2025
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