Posted on 02/21/2010 8:57:44 AM PST by kronos77
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has told his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu that Russia would soon build a museum dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. Netanyahu in response said Israel would erect a memorial dedicated to the efforts of the Soviet Army in liberating Europe during World War II. Netanyahu said the gesture, which he intends to move forward, was in honor of the 65th anniversary of the victory over the Nazis later this year. "No one has the right to forget those terrible losses among the Jewish people in this disaster, though some do. No one has the right to forget the decisive role that Russia, the Soviet Army, played in defeating Nazi Germany," he said.
Putin pointed out that he was currently in discussion with Moscow’s chief rabbi about the possibility of establishing a Holocaust museum in Moscow.
Netanyahu expressed hope that the memorial for the Red Army would be ready before Putin’s next visit to Israel, expected within the year.
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Sounds like either Benjamin Netanyahu is going senile or he was a dumbazz all along.
Is this new ‘Holocaust Museum’ for the last Holocaust, or the next?
Pooty-Poot’s buds in Iran are preparing for the next one, thanks to all that Russian technical expertise.
The “liberated” in Eastern Europe will just love it, won’t they!
Is is a beginning of a wonderful friendship?
Putin doesn’t have any “buds” in Iran. He (I think wrongly) regards the Iranian regime as a pawn in a game of balance-of-power politics vis-a-vis the U.S. I say wrongly because lunatics cannot be used as pawns in such a game, only rational powers whose goals and actions can be reasonably foreseen can.
Netanyahu is erecting a memorial to the murderers all of those millions of Catholics and Christians????? Including some in my family who were slaughtered?? That’s jacked up.
A friend’s early memory from growing up in Eastern Europe. He swears it is true: chocolates from the retreating Germans, hiding in the cellar from the advancing Russkies.
First of all, it recognizes some important historical facts.
And secondly, this would have to annoy the crap outta the Iranian Holocaust Denier-in-chief.
And Netanyahu seems to be sending a message to Obama that he can be friends with other countries too.
Don't see much of a downside...Am I missing something?
***No one has the right to forget the decisive role that Russia, the Soviet Army, played in defeating Nazi Germany,” he said. ***
Years ago, we lived in a house and found a large number of LIFE magazines from WWII. In one of them was a report from the Russian front that the Russians had overrun a killing field.
The Germans had piled wood, then had Jews lay down and they shot them in the back of the head.
Then they piled another layer of wood on them and shot another layer of Jews.
When they had a large number of layers, they would set the pile on fire.
This article had lots of photos showing the piles of dead among the wood.
The Russian Army was responsible for stopping this atrocity.
If Israel wishes to honor the Russian Army it is their business.
Not if your nation was on nazis “To kill” list.
Talk about sarcasm!
This galvanized the Russian people more than anything the Communist leaders were able to do. Three: The Russian troops did liberate some concentration camps and parts of Europe(before Stalin enslaved them again under communism.)Netanyahu is simply making a trade, an admission from Russia that the Holocaust did indeed occur and a monument to Russian troops(not necessarily to communist Stalin)that fought and died by the millions in WWII.
PS, the USA had better get it’s act together or the new protector of Israel might well be Russia.
Anne Franks father, Otto Frank, who was liberated from Auschwitz by the Russians, said at the time they didn’t care that the Russians were communists, that they were there to rescue them and thats all that mattered at the time.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Read a little history, calex, and know that the USSR and Nazi Germany were allies from August ‘39 to July ‘41, both attacking Poland in September ‘39 at the outset of the war. Had they not had the Nazis’ back, they’re probably would not have been a World War II.
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