Russias permanent representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin reminded the Poles who liberated Auschwitz. Russias permanent representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin told his colleague from Poland Bogusław Vinid today,that Nazi camp Auschwitz was liberated not by Ukrainians, but by the Soviet army. He asked Vinid to explain it to the Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Shetine, who had previously stated that a concentration camp had been liberated by 1st Ukrainian Front and Ukrainians. It was called 1st Ukrainian Front not because of the nationality, but because it had liberated Ukraine from the Nazis before it reached Poland. Like all other parts of the Red Army, it was a multi-ethnic and consisted of Russian, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, representatives of the peoples of Central Asia, and many others - more than a hundred ethnic groups of the Soviet Union. Ambassador Vinid, please explain it to your Minister of Foreign Affairs, who made a rather strange statement on this issue. Im sure he did not mean to offend so many people, - TASS quoted Churkin. Original news RT in Russian: russian.rt/article/70074 Original news RT in Russian: russian.rt/article/70074
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:37:47 +0000
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