Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, Chairman of the board of the Russkiy Mir Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov spoke at a plenary session of the State Duma on April 11, the press service of the Committee reports.
Here is the text of his speech:
- Today is a sad date, the International Day of Liberation of Prisoners of Fascist Concentration Camps.
These days, when the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the liberation of Eastern Europe from the brown plague is celebrated, it became known that Polish authorities had prohibited Russia from participating in the creation of the museum of Sobibor death camp.
That Sobibor, where 250 thousand citizens of the Soviet Union, France, the Netherlands and Poland were exterminated.
That Sobibor, where the legendary hero Alexander Pechersky organized and made his famous escape.
Poland, unfortunately, does not consider all this as a liberation now.
George Orwell said, "Who controls the past, he controls the future." Orwell knew what he was saying; he was a staff member of the British intelligence services, who were professionally engaged in anti-Soviet propaganda.
The distortion of history, the demonization of our country is part of the policy of the United States and the West to ensure its global hegemony. Unfortunately, this policy works. It works in Poland, Baltic States, and Ukraine, where fascism is being glorified.
Well, the Poles may have some historical claims to us, and we also have historical claims to the Poles, perhaps no less.
However, they are demolishing monuments to 600 thousand citizens of the Soviet Union who died during the liberation of Poland, which did not have a place inGermany’s plans for the future, like the Poles themselves.
Russians, Bashkirs, Tatars, Darghins, Chechens. Among them are also Ukrainians, Belarusians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Moldovans, Georgians, Armenians, Azeris, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Kyrgyz and Turkmenwere among these 600 thousand people.
This is a challenge to the historical memory of a large number of peoples and countries, which are independentstates now, whose representatives liberated Poland. Monuments to all of them are being demolished!
These countries are represented in the Council of Europe, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - an organization that must protect human rights and condemn fascism.
Was there ever a case when the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe or the Council of Europe condemned the Nazi tricks? There was no such case!
Yesterday, PACE invited us to form a delegation and return by paying a fee. Otherwise we will be excluded. Such a nice invitation!
PACE and the Council of Europe should think about at least one argument that prompted us to return to PACE. Maybe to condemn Nazism and its current manifestations at least once!
There is no reason to return to the organization, which in fact “protects” the Nazis, organizes Russophobic campaigns and now offers to simply pay for the “whip” with which they will continue to “flog us”.
We have absolutely nothing to do there with such a question.
The ash of Sobibor knocks in our hearts! And no one will ever succeed in taking away the Great Victory from us. It was won in the most terrible war over the most terrible enemy of humanity at the cost of the greatest victims.
Russkiy Mir
