ISTANBUL
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said not inviting Russia to events marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp was “shameful.”
“As for the invitation and non -invitation to similar occasions to the launch of Auschwitz, it is, of course, something like that and shameful,” Putin said in an interview with Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin, from which an extract was shared on his account of telegram.
“You can have an attitude towards Russia’s policy, towards the Russian head of state, towards me, nobody asks for an invitation. But if you think about it, you may have acted much more subtly,” Putin said.
The Russian president argued that if it was no longer imaginable to invite Soviet infantry soldiers who left the camp due to their physical state or their age, their relatives could at least be invited.
On January 27, a commemoration took a position to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the release of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birken concentration camp, where several world leaders, the German chancellor and the French, Poles and Ukrainian presidents were present.
The Auschwitz concentration camp, created through Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, released through Soviet forces on January 27, 1945.
The infamous camp is one of the largest concentration centers, where another 1. 1 million people were killed through the Nazi diet.
Now a Unesco World Heritage Site, changed to the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum in 1947, serving as a reminder of atrocities committed the Holocaust.
The UN adopted a resolution in 2005 to mark the date of Auschwitz’s liberation as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Russia has not been invited to participate in the annual occasions that commemorate Auschwitz’s launch from the Ukraine War in February 2022.