STATEMENT
BY
THE
COUNCIL OF FEDERATION OF THE
FEDERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE
On
the 70-th Anniversary of the beginning of World War II
On the eve of the 70-th Anniversary of the beginning of World
War II the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the
Begun on September 1-st, 1939, World War II became the
greatest tragedy of the 20-th century. It took tens of millions of human
lives. The memory of those should remain pure and unpolluted by distortions of
all kind made according to considerations of momentary advantage.
The history gave its verdict which is: the main perpetrators of that
tragedy were the leaders of Nazi Germany. The International Military Tribunal
in Nuremberg qualified their actions on unleashing of the aggressive war as the
gravest crime against humanity. The world community recognized that judgment a
final one and not subjected to a revision.
World War II was the outcome of the irreconcilable contradictions
between a number of the states of the world growing from early 1920-s, of their
selfish ambitions and aggressive aspirations.
At the same time one should not fail to notice that while pursuing their
own interests the political forces which were in power in some influential
European states right up to the beginning of World War II impeded creation of an
effective collective security system in Europe which is inconceivable without
participation of the USSR at that time as of Russia at present. The foreign
policy of Moscow in 1930-s can be given different assessments, as that depends
on interpretations but undisputable is the fact that the USSR had been
consistently standing in favor of creating an all-European system of mutual
obligations and guarantees, aimed to prevent a full-scale military conflict.
Unfortunately, that position did not receive a support from other states neither
during an unilateral dismounting by the Hitlerite
Germany of the Versailles-Washington system of the international relations created
after World War I, nor after the Anschluss of Austria,
nor when by "pacifying" Hitler he was granted the right to define the
further destiny of
World War II became not only a severe trial, but also a lesson for all Mankind
which having endured that tragedy has constructed after 1945 the system of
international relations on the basic principles of democracy, mutual respect
and refusal of the use of force, on the principles that were laid in the foundation
of the United Nations and other international organizations.
However on the eve of this mournful date in some European countries,
including those which were carrying war on the side of the Hitlerite Germany, and
in international parliamentary structures active attempts are being taken to revise
the real causes of World War II and to place on the USSR an equal with the Nazi
Germany responsibility for unleashing the war, and at the same time to justify
those who became accomplices of Hitlerites, committed atrocities on the territories
occupied by Nazis, and were crushed along with the Third Reich.
The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the
The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian
Federation resolutely condemns attempts of tendentious interpretation of the
historic facts used as an instrument in today’s struggle for influence in the
world.
The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian
Federation expects understanding and support from those who are not indifferent
to the historical truth and the peaceful future of Europe and the whole world.
THE COUNCIL OF FEDERATION
OF THE FEDERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE
July 18, 2009