Dmitry Medvedev: Germany's 'genocide' resolution is disgrace
Date
12/4/2022 12:52:31 PM
(MENAFN) Given the horrors done by Nazi soldiers on Soviet land during WWII, Germany has no right to lecture Russia on humanism and the 1930s hunger in the USSR, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.
The German parliament declared the Stalin-era wave of widespread famine, known in Kiev as the "Holodomor," to be genocide on Wednesday. Speaking at the headquarters of his governing United Russia party, which he heads, Medvedev slammed German politicians.
“Germans are now teaching us about humanism. Let them remember their own history, what they did on our nation’s territory,” he stated, in reference to the mass atrocities done by Nazi troops between 1941 and 1945 on Soviet territory.
“They are telling us about the ‘Holodomor’, about something else. It’s a shame to listen to all this coming from the lips of high-ranking officials, they should repent for three generations to come,” he asserted.
The German parliament passed a resolution on Wednesday calling the Soviet famine of the 1930s a "genocide" against the Ukrainian people. The statement, however, omitted the reality that a "awful hunger was running rampant not only in Ukraine, but across the entire nation, taking millions of lives," as the Russian Foreign Ministry pointed out.
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