"From the point of view of history, it is a falsification and obvious nonsense. Well, I think that from a political perspective, it is the desire to rewrite history for political purposes," Naryshkin told reporters.
On Wednesday, Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna, speaking on national radio, claimed that the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated by Ukrainians since the operation was carried out by the First Ukrainian Front. "There were Ukrainian soldiers on that January day and they opened the gates of the camp and liberated the camp," the minister said.
On January 27, 1945, the Soviet Red Army, consisting of Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Armenian and other soldiers from the Soviet Union, liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
On Tuesday, January 27, a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau's liberation will be held at a museum on the site of the former Nazi concentration camp. More than 1.5 million people were killed in German concentration camps during World War II. Auschwitz was the largest and one of the most notorious of the death camps and subsequently became a symbol of the Holocaust.
