Berlin: Non-admission of Russian and Belarusian representatives to the Victory Day events in Germany is a "flagrant insult," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday.
According to Namibia Press Agency, on Friday, German newspaper Berliner Zeitung reported, citing the German Foreign Ministry's document, that Russian and Belarusian representatives are not to be admitted to the federal, regional, and municipal Victory Day celebratory events, and that the local authorities may "exercise their right of eviction."
"The fact that the ideological heirs and direct offspring of Hitler's executioners will kick out Russians from the festive events dedicated to the victory [in the Great Patriotic War] looks like a flagrant insult. However, even here [German Foreign Minister Annalena] Baerbock and her Einsatz team are not original, they are almost copying their predecessors' experience. If German law enforcement forces really kick out Russians, Belarusians, former Soviet citizens, including the Jewish, from festive events, one can only call it revival of Nazism. Baerbock's 'Triumph of the Will'," Zakharova wrote on Telegram.
This year, Russian representatives were not invited to the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp on January 27. The annual International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust is marked on January 27, when Auschwitz, the largest Nazi-run concentration camp located in Poland, was liberated in 1945 by the Soviet Army.
Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia said that it would be unimaginable for the liberated prisoners that "a few decades later the decisive role of the Soviet Army in the victory over Nazism and in putting an end to the Holocaust would start to be questioned; that the country where the Auschwitz was located would demolish the monuments to the soldiers and officers of the Red Army, who liberated that country and the death camp; that representatives of the state that brought liberation from the Nazi death machine would not today be invited to the commemoration events in the former camp."