Today is International Holocaust Day.
The Germans murdered six million people in their death camps.
The Soviet Union lost over 20 million people as the result of German aggression.
On this day, January 27, 1945 the Soviet Army liberated the German death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
It was the Soviet 322nd Rifle Division who arrived at the gates of Auschwitz.
They later scored military victories against the Germans in western Ukraine and in Poland and were part of the Red Army that moved on to liberate Berlin.
Another Soviet victory was the lifting of the 900-day siege of Leningrad on January 27, 1944.
Mother Russia has suffered too much, lost too many people as has Ukraine, whose people were starved to death under the Staline regime.
Where is the United Nations? What’s its purpose if it is not to foster peace?
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