The UN General Assembly on Thursday, December 16, adopted a resolution by Russia to combat the glorification of Nazism.
The resolution was supported by 130 countries, 49 abstained. Among the abstaining are a number of European states, including Great Britain, as well as Eastern European states such as Georgia and Moldova, the Russian mission to the UN said on its Twitter page.
The document, “Combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that escalate contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” recommends that countries take appropriate concrete measures, including in the legislative and educational fields. They should aim at revising the outcome of World War II (WWII) and denying crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during it.
Grigory Lukyantsev, Deputy Director of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, who spoke before the vote, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, said that the adoption of the document “will make a real contribution to the eradication of racism and racial discrimination.”
On October 25, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that the whole spectrum of manifestations at the state level of the line on the glorification of Nazism was recorded in Ukraine, the country’s authorities are rewriting history. The department noted that the distorted interpretations of historical events by the Ukrainian authorities are aimed at cultivating nationalism among the broad masses of the population.
Earlier, on October 20, Senator from Crimea Olga Kovitidi told Izvestia that the proposal of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) to call the Great Patriotic War a Soviet-German war causes justified concern, since it points to destructive civilizational processes in the country. According to her, such statements by the Ukrainian authorities require Russians to be conscious and effectively oppose any attempts to falsify history.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said on July 5 that there are supporters of Nazism and Bandera supporters in Ukraine. According to a Kremlin spokesman, they have a tremendous impact on the public and internal political life of the country.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin noted on June 9, Kiev’s attempt to divide the inhabitants of Ukraine into indigenous peoples and non-indigenous peoples is comparable to the ideas of Nazi Germany.
Source: IZ
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