[Regnum] During the Great Patriotic War, the Nazis killed one and a half million Jews in Ukraine. This was announced on September 5 by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Russian organizing committee "Victory".During the meeting, the president noted that it is necessary to see the connection between the events of those years and today and asked how many Jews were killed by the Nazis in Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War.
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The head of state asked to clarify how many Jews of this number were destroyed by the Nazis and collaborators on the territory of Ukraine during the war years. The director of the museum found it difficult to answer this question.
“And I'll tell you. One and a half million people. Women, old people, children, one and a half million people. If in total six million were destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, then this is a quarter - 25% of the victims, ” Putin said.
The President also pointed out that it is necessary to raise and publish such information so that there is no misunderstanding with whom exactly Russia is fighting on Ukrainian territory today, what goals it pursues there and who is its opponent.
“Not the Ukrainian people, but these nonhumans and their descendants. But you need to show it, it’s still there, ” he stressed.
As IA Regnum reported , on May 17, Putin, in a message to Russian Jews and everyone celebrating the Day of Salvation and Liberation, noted that soldiers and officers of the Russian army are fighting in the special operation zone with direct followers of Nazism. The President stressed that the present and future generations of people should sacredly keep the historical truth about the Second World War in order to understand what any connivance with nationalism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia is fraught with.
Putin also said on June 16 that Russia would never forget the crimes of Nazism. He stressed that the country suffered the most in the fight against fascism.