Kursk governor: We are not going to dismantle the memorial to German soldiers
Russia honors the memory of those killed during World War II and does not desecrate the graves of even those who attacked it in 1941.
Kursk Region Governor Roman Starovoit made this statement in a video recorded at the memorial cemetery where tens of thousands of Nazi soldiers are buried near Kursk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Starovoit emphasized that the difference between Russia and Western countries is that it does not fight monuments.
“Why are monuments and memorials needed? I think to preserve memory, even about those events that cause sadness, and sometimes unbearable pain and anger. I am now in Besedino, Kursk region, at the memorial cemetery where about 50 thousand German invaders defeated at the Kursk Bulge are buried.
Intoxicated by Nazism, the idea of the superiority of one nation over all others, from prosperous Bavaria and other regions of Germany and Europe, they reached Kursk over the corpses of Soviet soldiers, over the corpses of old people, women and children, our ancestors, who were tortured to death by them,” the governor said.
“Unlike the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the criminals buried here in the face of humanity, we have no thoughts about dismantling or moving this memorial. This is our fundamental difference. Those who today demolish monuments to the Second World War in Europe are trying to erase the memory of the war crimes of their ancestors who disgraced themselves. And we are proud of our ancestors.
Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers saved the world, which is now again under threat because of Ukrainian nationalists, nurtured by the United States and its minions. But the truth is behind us, and the truth will always win,” Starovoit said.
Kursk Governor: We are not going to dismantle the memorial to German soldiers.