Moral guide for humanity and a warning about the inadmissibility of the emergence of a new world war which can become the planet’s last, should remain for modern civilization, the lessons of the Second world war.
This call is contained in a joint statement, the permanent representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Serbia to the OSCE. It was extended to the online meeting of the permanent Council of this international organization in the Austrian capital on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the great Patriotic war.
In a joint document, which is quoted on Thursday by BelTA, calls on the international community “strongly oppose the rehabilitation of Nazi ideology, propaganda of racism, extremism and hatred on ethnic, racial and religious grounds, xenophobia and related intolerance in all its forms and manifestations”.
the Second world war was a terrible tragedy, which killed tens of millions worldwide, the largest humanitarian disaster in human history. Her lessons, according to the initiators of the appeal, must remain to all mankind moral compass. They note “the unifying potential of the topic and the need for its further consolidation in the OSCE agenda” and advocated “a broad international dialogue based on equality and mutual respect in order to strengthen the system of international security and confidence.”
the Authors give “a tribute to all who died fighting German Nazism, his allies and accomplices who have committed the gravest crime: the combatants of the anti-Hitler coalition, partisans and underground workers, victims of the Holocaust, the Nazi plan “OST” for the destruction of the population of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union”.
the permanent representatives pointed out the great historical significance of the great Victory, for the formation of the principles of international law and prevent serious threats and challenges to security, the growth of the manifestations of Nazi ideology, extremism and xenophobia. They consider it particularly important to preserve the historical truth about the Second world war, to prevent the revision of its legal results, including the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and decisions of the International military Tribunal in Nuremberg.
unfortunately, it is stated in the document, this is true “begins to be forgotten and often distorted by political considerations. Destroyed monuments to soldiers-liberators, implanted neo-Nazi and right-wing ideas. Therefore, it is important a responsible approach to the fulfillment of the obligations for the preservation of memorials, monuments, memorials and cemeteries of soldiers killed for the liberation of Europe and Asia”, – konstaterait is in the statement.
