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Russia is particularly upset by the United States’ efforts to “distort” the role played by the USSR in the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, saying that it would like to start a “serious dialogue” with the Americans on this issue.
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“We are particularly outraged by attempts to distort the results of our country’s decisive contribution,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The occasion was the announcement published on Friday on the Facebook page of the White House, in which only Great Britain and the United States were mentioned as forces that defeated the Nazis.
“The Americans did not have the courage …”
“American officials did not have the courage or the will to honor the undisputed role of the Red Army and the Soviet people,” said Moscow. ».
Describing the US statements as “particularly insignificant,” Russia asked Washington not to turn the anniversary of the Allied victory, in 1945, “into a new problem of bilateral relations, which is already going through difficult times.”
27 million Soviet dead
The role of the USSR in victory over Nazi Germany, at a cost of 27 million Soviet dead, is particularly sensitive in Russia. Moscow also accuses Europeans, led by Poles and Ukrainians, of degrading their actions during World War II.
On Saturday, Russia celebrated 75 years of victory without the usual major military parade, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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