2009-07-03 16:11:04 -
VILNIUS, Lithuania - The parliamentary assembly of the Organization of Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe passed a resolution equating the roles of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in starting World War II.
Only eight delegates in the 385-member assembly voted against the resolution.
The non-binding resolution calls for making Aug. 23 a day of remembrance for victims of Stalinism and Nazism. That is the day in 1939 that Germany and the Soviet Union signed a pact carving up Eastern Europe between them. Germany invaded Poland a week later starting WWII.
Russia's delegates were angered by the resolution and immediately left the assembly once it passed.
“Those who place Nazism and Stalinism on the same level forget that it is the Stalin-era Soviet Union that made the biggest sacrifices and the biggest contribution to liberating Europe from fascism,” said Russian delegate Alexander Kozlovsky.
For many years the west has downplayed the role of the Soviet Union in WWII says John Laughland from the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in Paris.
“When you look at the history of the Second World War, the fighting in the east was of such an enormous magnitude that the fighting in the west, like the Normandy landing, pales into insignificance, they are almost non-events in comparison,” Laughland said.
“One can, of course, compare Soviet communism and German Nazism, but there’s one big difference that emerges. Hitler came to power explicitly on the basis of war and racial prosecution. Soviet communism never had a racist element in the way Nazi Germany did.”
History usually supports with the country that wins the war.
source: http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-07-03/_Politicians_do_not_make_good_historians_.html
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