'It was the peoples of the Soviet Union who broke the backbone of the Third Reich. That is a fact,' Sergei Lavrov wrote, ahead of D-Day memorials.
Russia's foreign minister said that the expansive events commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day are painting a"false" picture of who won World War II.
Thursday, June 6, marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when US, Canadian, and British forces landed in Normandy, France, and began liberating Nazi-occupied areas. "False interpretations of history are being introduced into the Western education system with mystifications and pseudo-historical theories designed to belittle the feat of our ancestors," Lavrov wrote."Young people are being told that the main credit in victory over Nazism and liberation of Europe goes not to the Soviet troops, but to the West due to the landing in Normandy, which took place less than a year before Nazism was defeated.
The Nazis were pushed back in both directions at once, and Russian and Allied forces reached Berlin at similar times. Historians agree that the Soviets sustained the heaviest losses of all powers involved in World War II, placing the death toll for the Red Army at between nine million and 11 million soldiers, part of a total 26 million Soviet citizens who died.
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