You start a war and get mad when others don’t like it.
DUH
Why would Russia think it has anything to do with the liberation of Auschwitz?
Didn’t the Soviets invade Poland before the Nazis?
And stick religious Jews in gulags?
And 100% escape justice?
Interesting. Did you notice that the media you cited also had a related story, noted as "recommended?"
"Netanyahu skips Auschwitz event over ICC arrest fear."And the same media led to another article, titled:
"G7 to 'comply with obligations' over Netanyahu ICC arrest warrant"Nothing says "80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp" like ignoring the history of its actual liberation and the threat to arrest a Jewish political leader. Yea! Virtue signaling for the rubes.
Someone once wrote about controlling history, by changing it.
“...the Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past, just as he must be cut off from foreign countries, because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors and that the average level of material comfort is constantly rising.”
It's not just a snub of Putin.
Murderous pig Putin maybe hasn’t quite equaled the holocaust, but he’s trying.
As part of the Allied Forces during WW2, the Soviets (Russia) were instrumental in liberating death camps, particularly this one.
Ignoring their contribution, regardless of today’s conflicts, just seems wrong.
Not as shameful is not protecting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was told would be arrested if he came to the ceremony since he is considered a world court criminal. That is shameful!
Sort of like if France had an observance day for D-Day and banned the Americans.
The Nazis could not have been defeated if not for the Russians. That's why the allied forces aligned with them.
That we and Europe have aligned with neo-Nazis in Ukraine and nation whose modern-day founder was a Nazi collaborator is disgraceful.
Russia should not be in Ukraine:
https://twitter.com/BrilliantMaps/status/1498655743167315976
Electoral Geography:
https://www.electoralgeography.com/new/en/countries/u/ukraine/ukraine-independence-referendum-1991.html
Whether Putin is being sincere or cynical is hard to say (I’d guess some of both), he is playing a limited hand pretty well by making this not be about snubbing himself, or even Russia, but the insult to the few remaining old soldiers and their survivors for whom the liberation of Auschwitz has deep personal meaning.
Putin has poor optics. He’s committing genocide right now in Ukraine.
He is right. Soviets libersted the dang place afterall.
Any adults running ANYTHING anymore?
No.
The Soviets murdered this man who escaped Auschwitz
Witold Pilecki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki
Whether anyone likes Putin and his policies or not, it is an undisputed historical fact that Soviet/Russian troops liberated Auschwitz. To not invite them (and particularly any of the soldiers who did the liberating or their relatives) is an historic injustice. Sometimes, you have to put different ideas in different boxes. However much people may be upset with Putin for starting the war in Ukraine (and there’s plenty of blame to pass around on that one), it has absolutely nothing to do with the liberation of Auschwitz some 77 years earlier than the beginning of this war.
FWIW, I am Jewish, and roughly 75 people in my extended family were murdered by the Nazis, mainly in Poland (where Auschwitz is located). Note that both sides of my father’s family also came from what is today Ukraine. Further, one of my great grandfather’s was murdered by the NKVD in 1937, and the KGB (of which Putin was a high-ranking officer) was its successor. I therefore associate Putin with the actions of the NKVD. Though I did not have any blood relatives who survived Auschwitz (though one of my wife’s uncles was liberated from Birkenau, a work camp attached to Auschwitz), and while the Soviet Union did not defeat Germany just to stop the Holocaust/Shoah, it is my firm belief that anybody who assisted in the defeat of the Nazis should be commensurately honored, or at least acknowledged. The past three years of not inviting the Russians to these ceremonies is a big mistake.
I didn’t notice in the article what person/organization does the inviting. Who did the snubbing?
