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🎙 Key remarks by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the #OSCE, Dmitry #Polyanskiy, at a roundtable organized on October 6 by the Embassies of #Belarus and #Russia in Austria, titled "United by Remembrance: National Perspectives on the Tragedy of Maly Trostenets". #Polyanskiy #PolyanskiyOSCE 📍Austria, Vienna

Statement by Dmitry #Polyanskiy, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE, during the round table organised by the Embassies of #Belarus and #Russia in Austria on 6 October to remember the tragedy at the Maly Trostenets concentration camp: ◾️We all bear in our memories that, during the years of the Nazi occupation of Belarus, thousands of towns and villages were burnt down and destroyed, and dozens of extermination camps and other mass killing sites were created. The Republic of Belarus lost one third of its population. The village of Khatyn became a terrifying symbol of atrocities for the Soviet people. ◾️The Maly Trostenets concentration camp, where over 200,000 prisoners of war and civilians were brutally murdered, is among the most tragic chapters of the Great Patriotic War. ◾️It is our duty to do everything we can to keep alive the memory of the tragedy that was the genocide of the Soviet people and remember the courage of the millions of soldiers, partisans, homefront workers and civilians who sacrificed their lives in the struggle for peace and freedom. Any attempts at rewriting the history of the Second World War or revising its outcomes, including placing equal blame for the outbreak of the war on the Soviet Union and on the Nazi criminals, are unacceptable. ◾️The 2026 report on combating the glorification of Nazism, released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which we have recently circulated within the #OSCE, sets out irrefutable evidence of hatred-filled ideologies gaining ground at the state level in Ukraine and the Baltic countries. Acts of vandalism against memorial sites, the glorification of Nazis and their accomplices, the persecution of those deemed undesirable, the ban on the #Russian language and the persecution of religious groups are all totally unjustifiable. #Polyanskiy #PolyanskiyOSCE 📍Austria, Vienna 🔗 shorturl.at/91Czq