Lavrov condemned Germany’s refusal to pay compensation to all the blockades of Leningrad

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the FRG’s unwillingness to pay compensation to all the blockades of Leningrad, regardless of their nationality, as a flagrant injustice. The minister recalled that Germany considered it its duty to compensate only the Jews who survived the blockade – as victims of the Holocaust.

The siege of Leningrad lasted 872 days – from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944.

“As some kind of compensation, they offered to renovate the hospital in St. Petersburg. And thanks to them for that, they will repair it. We created a meeting center for veterans from both sides. But this does not negate the glaring injustice … The Holocaust is a crime, but what the Nazis did in Leningrad, there were no differences between Jews, Russians, Tatars, Georgians, Armenians, whoever lived there, “Mr. Lavrov said on the Seventh World Congress of Russian Compatriots Living Abroad.

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia has been trying for many years to resolve the issue of compensation to all survivors of the blockade. “For more than ten years now we have been trying to figure out what to do with everyone else who also survived there in inhuman conditions,” they said: “No, you know, before Jewish citizens, wherever they live, we are legally responsible due to the fact that there was a Holocaust, and the rest of the blockade of Leningrad were not subjected to the persecution of the Holocaust, ”Mr. Lavrov quoted the position of the German government.

In 2019, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the lifting of the blockade, the Foreign Ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Russian Foreign Ministry announced: € 12 million will be allocated from the German budget for compensation “as a humanitarian gesture.” Petersburg.

More details – in the material of “b” “Siege of Leningrad will receive support from Berlin.”

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