The Second World War

Remember the Soviet sacrifices in the Second world war

75. Anniversary of the German Attack on the Soviet Union’s Federal President Joachim Gauck and leaders of all parliamentary groups in the Bundestag of the millions of victims. Foreign Minister Steinmeier stresses the German debt.

Federal President Joachim Gauck: “No country has brought in the Second world war, so great a sacrifice as the Soviet Union.” (Archive image)

“The guard of the keep memories of the horrors of the Second world war and the German debt was, is, and remains, an essential, a mandatory requirement for the reconciliation between our countries,” wrote German foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in an article for Newspapers in Russia, white Russia and the Ukraine. On the occasion of the attack of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union on June 22. In June of 1941.

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It is only together that they could receive “a sustainable and stable peace order in Europe,” Steinmeier said. Currently, the new separation threatened lines. “The illegal unilateral change of borders and respect of territorial integrity of neighboring States – all of which leads us in thought we had overcome times, could wish for no one.” The words related to the annexation of the Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea by Russia and military assistance to Pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine.

“Peace is not, of course,”

Also Federal President Joachim Gauck draws Parallels to the present. “The anniversary of the Attack on the Soviet Union exhorts us to call to mind the importance of peace in a renewed awareness of peace is, of course,” said Gauck. Also, the European community of Nations based on the cooperation of equals. Handle conflicts in a peaceful way.

The Chairman of the party and the faction of The Left party calling for reason and reconciliation in dealing with Russia. Katja Kipping, Sahra car called servant, Bernd Riexinger, and Dietmar Bartsch, to take the oath “Never again war!” seriously. Out of the terror and brutality of the war, so the four Left-politicians, otherwise used to get confrontation to a policy of sanity would finally be the right, peaceful conclusions.

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Injustice against prisoners of war recognize

On the occasion of the anniversary, the Greens have called for a recognition of the Soviet prisoners of war as victims of the Nazi regime. Although the Bundestag had decided in the past year, for a compensation in the amount of 2500 euros, according to a letter from the Greens parliamentary group, Bundestag President Norbert Lammert, the Funke media group reported. “But money is the one, clear, unequivocal words of the others”, write the deputies Marieluise Beck and Volker Beck. It was “shameful and sad”, when the Bundestag would continue to recognize, refuse, and the heavy injustice against the former prisoners of war.

The Bundestag remembered the afternoon with a one-hour debate on the 75. The anniversary of the Attack on the Soviet Union.

fab/stu (afp, epd, dpa, to The Left)