Into the Gates of Hell and Why Soviet Victory Day Matters

Map of Transit Routes from Western Europe to Nazi Concentration/Death Camps

Map of Transit Routes from Western Europe to Nazi Concentration/Death Camps

Red Army liberated the Sobibor death camp

Красная Армия освободила лагерь смерти Собибор

Red Army liberated the Majdanek death camp

Красная Армия освободила лагерь смерти Майданек

Red Army liberated the Belzec death camp

Красная Армия освободила лагерь смерти Белжец

Red Army liberated the Chemlo death camp

Красная Армия освободила лагерь смерти Хемло

Liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Red Army

Советская Красная Армия Освобождение Освенцима

Why the Nazi Concentration/Death Camps?

The concept of Lebensraum—or “living space”—served as a critical component in the Nazi worldview that drove both its military conquests and racial policy to annihilate eastern Slavic and Jewish populations and then colonize, aka, “Germanize,” all of Eastern Europe and European Russia. —Holocaust Museum, Lebensraum | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Into the Gates of Hell and Why Soviet Victory Day Matters - Past is Prologue

Map of Transit Routes from Western Europe to Nazi Concentration/Death Camps

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IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson (second from left) meets with Hitler in Berlin, June 1937, just before receiving medal for "service to the Reich"; image via Jewish Virtual Library

In the 30s no computer existed. But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed & constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate the persecution of the Jews.

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Holocaust doesn’t give Israel impunity – Lavrov

The Soviet people were also subject to Nazi genocide, but Russia doesn’t have carte blanche in the global arena, he says

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. © Sputnik/Ramil Sitdikov

Israel should not think that the suffering of Jews during World War II gives it free rein in foreign policy, particularly when it comes to the hostilities in Gaza, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Speaking at a press conference on the results of Moscow’s diplomacy in 2023 on Thursday, Lavrov reiterated his support for the creation of a Palestinian state. The decades-long failure to do this is one of the key reasons for the current instability in the Middle East and tensions between Palestinians and Israelis, he added.

The foreign minister noted that Russia had immediately condemned the attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7. However, after the hostilities began, some Israeli officials went so far as to call the residents of Gaza “animals” without facing any backlash from the West, he added.

Lavrov added that the Soviet people had suffered no less as they were exterminated in the same Nazi concentration camps as the Jews, with both people dying from starvation side-by-side in besieged Leningrad.

“According to this logic, we can do whatever we want. That won’t work if we want to systematically uphold international law,” he added.

Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, with the ensuing fighting killing more than 1,200 Israelis and 24,000 Palestinians. Since then, Israel started a ground operation in the Palestinian enclave, which has caused unprecedented destruction. It has vowed not to stop until Hamas is completely defeated and Palestinian society “deradicalized.”

Russia has repeatedly called on the two sides to agree to a ceasefire while urging Israel not to forget the laws of war.

The Holocaust claimed the lives of around six million Jews in Europe. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union lost some 27 million people during the war, including many Jews, with two-thirds of those losses among the civilian population.

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