INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
organized by neo-Nazis in Ukraine
It is against that evil that our soldiers are bravely fighting," he said in a statement.Supporters of Putin's military operation allege
Ukraine's treatment of Russian speakers in the country is comparable with the actions of Nazi Germany.One of the goals of the operation
was the "de-Nazification" of Ukraine, Putin said when he announced nearly one year ago he had ordered Russian troops toward Kyiv.The claims
long a symbol of patriotic pride for Russians -- has taken center stage since the beginning of the military intervention.Putin said that
"attempts to revise the contributions of our country to the Great Victory (against Hitler) actually equate to justifying the crimes of
Nazism and open the way for the revival of its deadly ideology."Friday is the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau
Ukraine."Russia will need an extremely long time and very deep self-examination after this conflict in order to return to gatherings of the
told AFP that "for us, this is clearly a humiliation because we perfectly know and remember the role of the Red Army in the liberation of
Auschwitz and in the victory over Nazism.""These political games have no place on Holocaust day," Lazar added.
