{"id":1187,"date":"2025-01-27T15:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2025-01-27T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:13:17","slug":"serbian-deputy-pm-slams-russias-exclusion-from-holocaust-commemoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/serbian-deputy-pm-slams-russias-exclusion-from-holocaust-commemoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbian deputy PM slams Russia\u2019s exclusion from Holocaust commemoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not inviting the country to the ceremony marking the liberation of Auschwitz risks fostering \u201cnew evil,\u201d Aleksandar Vulin has warned<\/strong><\/p>\n

Excluding Russia from the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz\u2019s liberation has turned the ceremony into a gathering of descendants of Holocaust perpetrators and their collaborators, Serbian Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin has said.<\/p>\n

Speaking on International Holocaust Remembrance Day \u2013 January 27, when Soviet troops captured the death camp in 1945, established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland \u2013 Vulin harshly criticized Warsaw\u2019s decision not to invite a Russian delegation to the ceremony over the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe unthinkable crimes of the German people and state were \u2018rewarded\u2019 by the unification of Germany. Eighty years later, the liberation of Auschwitz is celebrated with the participation of countries that organized the Holocaust in Auschwitz, such as Germany and its allies, or countries that provided guards, such as Poland or Croatia,\u201d<\/em> Vulin stated.<\/p>\n

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Every new evil begins with the oblivion of an old evil\u2026 The grandchildren of the guards and perpetrators of Auschwitz are not ashamed of the crimes of their grandfathers, they are ashamed of their defeat.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The exclusion of Russia from the ceremony is another revisionist move and an attempt to rewrite history by EU member states, Vulin said. \u201cIf there are still living prisoners of Auschwitz among us, ask them to whom they owe their lives \u2013 to the grandchildren of the Red Army soldiers or to the grandchildren of the SS and Wehrmacht soldiers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Nazis opened Auschwitz in 1939 as a concentration camp but expanded it later to carry out mass exterminations. According to various estimates, at least 1.1 million people, predominantly Jews, were killed at the death camp through gassing, starvation, fatal medical experiments, and so on.<\/p>\n

Around 7,000 prisoners were rescued by Soviet troops from Auschwitz, while most were forced by the Nazis to march away from the advancing Red Army.<\/p>\n

Around 50 former prisoners and survivors are taking part in the ceremony this year. Senior officials from 53 countries and seven international organizations also traveled to Poland for the commemoration. They include King Charles III, the first British monarch to visit Auschwitz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not inviting the country to the ceremony marking the liberation of Auschwitz risks fostering \u201cnew evil,\u201d Aleksandar Vulin has warned Excluding Russia from the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz\u2019s liberation has turned the ceremony into a gathering of descendants of Holocaust perpetrators and their collaborators, Serbian Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin has said. Speaking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}