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#NoStatuteOfLimitations
Ahead of the International Day of Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps (April 11), established by UNESCO in 1952, and the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People (April 19), declared by the President of Russia in December 2025, we once again turn to archival documents that contain evidence of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators.
The Russian Military Historical Society has published on its website a selection of documents from the Central Archives of the Russian Defence Ministry. These materials include records related to the Red Army’s liberation of European countries from Nazi occupation and the freeing of concentration camp prisoners, as well as a series of reports describing atrocities of the Banderites.
👉 View the archival documents' selection in its entirety
#ArchivesSpeak
◼️ Nazi crimes and Nazi death camps
This selection of archival documents includes declassified materials that contain evidence related to the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor, Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Majdanek, as well as prisoner-of-war camps. Reports submitted by members of the Military Councils of these fronts to the Supreme High Command shed light on the scale and brutality of Nazi crimes.
Not only German forces, but also their collaborators, participated in acts of genocide against concentration camp prisoners. The materials include testimonies from liberated prisoners of war, reports by Soviet command on the extermination of prisoners immediately prior to the liberation of the camps, personal accounts of participants, and records of interrogations of Nazis and their collaborators.
– From a report dated July 30, 1944, on Nazi atrocities at the Sobibor death camp, compiled by a group of Soviet officers led by Captain Turayev. The document includes testimony from a local resident, Lukashuk, who witnessed Nazi crimes:
◼️ Banderites’ atrocities
- From the political report by the head of the political department of the Ternopol Regional Military Commissariat, dated November 5, 1945, On the activities of Ukrainian-German nationalist groups in the Ternopol Region, October 1945:
▪️ A dedicated section on the genocide of the Soviet people at the Russian MFA's website
❗️ Nazi crimes have no statute of limitations and must never be forgotten, or the world will once again face the threat of genocide of prisoners of war, civilians, and entire nations.
Ahead of the International Day of Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps (April 11), established by UNESCO in 1952, and the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People (April 19), declared by the President of Russia in December 2025, we once again turn to archival documents that contain evidence of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators.
The Russian Military Historical Society has published on its website a selection of documents from the Central Archives of the Russian Defence Ministry. These materials include records related to the Red Army’s liberation of European countries from Nazi occupation and the freeing of concentration camp prisoners, as well as a series of reports describing atrocities of the Banderites.
👉 View the archival documents' selection in its entirety
#ArchivesSpeak
◼️ Nazi crimes and Nazi death camps
This selection of archival documents includes declassified materials that contain evidence related to the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor, Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Majdanek, as well as prisoner-of-war camps. Reports submitted by members of the Military Councils of these fronts to the Supreme High Command shed light on the scale and brutality of Nazi crimes.
Not only German forces, but also their collaborators, participated in acts of genocide against concentration camp prisoners. The materials include testimonies from liberated prisoners of war, reports by Soviet command on the extermination of prisoners immediately prior to the liberation of the camps, personal accounts of participants, and records of interrogations of Nazis and their collaborators.
– From a report dated July 30, 1944, on Nazi atrocities at the Sobibor death camp, compiled by a group of Soviet officers led by Captain Turayev. The document includes testimony from a local resident, Lukashuk, who witnessed Nazi crimes:
All the corpses were piled up, doused with fuel, and burned. A huge bonfire began to blaze an hour after the train carrying the unfortunate victims arrived. It burned for days, with the stench of burning human bodies carried by the wind for many kilometres to neighbouring villages.
The Germans later burned the Jewish prisoners who had been forced to work in this death factory, and destroyed the camp in mid-1943. In the fall of 1943, they plowed over the site and sowed it with rye in an attempt to conceal their terrible crimes.
◼️ Banderites’ atrocities
- From the political report by the head of the political department of the Ternopol Regional Military Commissariat, dated November 5, 1945, On the activities of Ukrainian-German nationalist groups in the Ternopol Region, October 1945:
The activities of Ukrainian-German nationalist groups were aimed at disrupting state events, including the procurement of agricultural products. <...> In areas without military garrisons, these groups intensified their hostilities, and terrorist acts, including the killings of local party officials and rural activists, became more frequent. In addition to acts of intimidation and the search for winter clothing, <...> these groups carried out robberies of cooperative stores and private households.
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In the village of Grigorovo, Monastyrsky District, bandits killed the secretary of the village council for being the first to fulfill the grain supply quota.
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In the Vishnevsky District, on October 19, bandits executed three young women: one a milk collector, one a postwoman, and one a cafeteria cleaner. The victims were subjected to severe abuse: the bandits cut their hair, slashed their faces with needles, and committed other acts of cruelty.
▪️ A dedicated section on the genocide of the Soviet people at the Russian MFA's website
❗️ Nazi crimes have no statute of limitations and must never be forgotten, or the world will once again face the threat of genocide of prisoners of war, civilians, and entire nations.
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✍️ Article by Russian MFA Foreign Policy Planning Department Director Alexey Drobinin and Deputy Director Maria Khodynskaya-Golenishcheva for Russia in Global Affairs (April 3, 2026)
🌏 Southeast Asia in the Multipolar World
👉 Read in full ( Website | Telegraph )
💬 Some experts writing about international developments come to the conclusion that multipolarity has emerged sooner than many were ready for it. The speed of change is so high that even the boldest forecasts often materialise in real time.
President Vladimir Putin said at the Plenary Session of the 22nd annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in October 2025 that “multipolarity has in fact already emerged”.
The pillars of a polycentric world are already in place, but the structure itself remains flexible. There are several independent centres where systemically significant decisions are made. The most important of these are the US, China and Russia. India is developing its overall capacity. Brazil, Indonesia, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and several other major countries are strengthening their international standing, and their influence is acquiring a transregional scope. Continental Europe has placed its bets on fighting Russia, and as a result, it is losing its chance to be independent in global affairs.
A multipolar world is rising from the old system, often on its ruins. The fundamentals of international relations are being put to the test. Those that fail to meet the requirements of the new age are mercilessly cast aside. There are serious grounds to assume that not all of the “poles” mentioned above will weather the nascent geopolitical storm, and that new centres of power and influence will emerge as a result.
The new element at this stage is that all “living” civilisations have moved to the centre of world politics for the first time. The “new rules” are being shaped “on the ground” by a large number of widely different players. As President Putin forecast at a meeting of the Valdai Club, “we will not see a clash of ideologies or states due to ideological differences but rather a clash of states and coalescence based on civilisational features.”
Other key points:
• The multipolar world order that is taking shape right before our eyes is being rejected by countries accustomed to thinking in terms of global dominance and neocolonialism, and they are making deliberate attempts to contain their geopolitical competitors and limit their growth opportunities by pushing them out of global and regional markets and exerting pressure on them.
• Such behaviour has become systemic and echoes in developments across the world, including Southeast Asia. We can see how certain external forces are now trying to reshape the region to serve their own interests, with the aim of weakening China and sideline Russia.
• Russia remains a reliable friend to the countries of Southeast Asia. Our relations are unburdened by either a colonial past or long-standing disagreements. Our country is seen not only as a centre of power, but also as a time-tested guarantor of security.
• Direct contacts with influential regional organisations are expanding. Relations have been established with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Eurasian Economic Union, and the Gulf Cooperation Council. ASEAN places great emphasis on strengthening ties with #BRICS.
• Southeast Asia not only exists on the geopolitical map but is actively asserting itself as a promising centre of a multipolar world, a region raising its voice in global affairs.
#RussiaASEAN
🌏 Southeast Asia in the Multipolar World
👉 Read in full ( Website | Telegraph )
💬 Some experts writing about international developments come to the conclusion that multipolarity has emerged sooner than many were ready for it. The speed of change is so high that even the boldest forecasts often materialise in real time.
President Vladimir Putin said at the Plenary Session of the 22nd annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in October 2025 that “multipolarity has in fact already emerged”.
The pillars of a polycentric world are already in place, but the structure itself remains flexible. There are several independent centres where systemically significant decisions are made. The most important of these are the US, China and Russia. India is developing its overall capacity. Brazil, Indonesia, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and several other major countries are strengthening their international standing, and their influence is acquiring a transregional scope. Continental Europe has placed its bets on fighting Russia, and as a result, it is losing its chance to be independent in global affairs.
A multipolar world is rising from the old system, often on its ruins. The fundamentals of international relations are being put to the test. Those that fail to meet the requirements of the new age are mercilessly cast aside. There are serious grounds to assume that not all of the “poles” mentioned above will weather the nascent geopolitical storm, and that new centres of power and influence will emerge as a result.
The new element at this stage is that all “living” civilisations have moved to the centre of world politics for the first time. The “new rules” are being shaped “on the ground” by a large number of widely different players. As President Putin forecast at a meeting of the Valdai Club, “we will not see a clash of ideologies or states due to ideological differences but rather a clash of states and coalescence based on civilisational features.”
Other key points:
• The multipolar world order that is taking shape right before our eyes is being rejected by countries accustomed to thinking in terms of global dominance and neocolonialism, and they are making deliberate attempts to contain their geopolitical competitors and limit their growth opportunities by pushing them out of global and regional markets and exerting pressure on them.
• Such behaviour has become systemic and echoes in developments across the world, including Southeast Asia. We can see how certain external forces are now trying to reshape the region to serve their own interests, with the aim of weakening China and sideline Russia.
• Russia remains a reliable friend to the countries of Southeast Asia. Our relations are unburdened by either a colonial past or long-standing disagreements. Our country is seen not only as a centre of power, but also as a time-tested guarantor of security.
• Direct contacts with influential regional organisations are expanding. Relations have been established with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Eurasian Economic Union, and the Gulf Cooperation Council. ASEAN places great emphasis on strengthening ties with #BRICS.
• Southeast Asia not only exists on the geopolitical map but is actively asserting itself as a promising centre of a multipolar world, a region raising its voice in global affairs.
#RussiaASEAN
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💬 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
Zelensky "decorated" Kallas with the Order of Princess Olga, First Class, usually awarded to women for “outstanding merits”.
Kaja Kallas’s merits for the Ukrainians are indeed “outstanding.” She has demanded that ‘mogilisation’ (i.e. mobilisation to die, derived from the world mogila = grave) be ramped up; she has dragged women into the Ukrainian army, demanded that the Kiev regime reject any attempts to make peace, helped to turn the country into a weapon of war “till the last Ukrainian,” incited hatred, and boosted corruption through unchecked infusion of millions.
What relation is there between the EU’s policy that is devastating for Ukraine and the old Russian princess who was the first Christian ruler of Russia? Olga laid the foundation for our country to become Christian: she established contacts with the Byzantine Empire, promoted the Christian faith, and paved the way for baptising Rus' under her grandson Vladimir in 988.
The current authorities entrenched in Kiev are essentially obliterating Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine by persecuting the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, seizing churches in gangster-style raids with physical violence towards the clergy and parishioners, and taking over holy relics while priests and believers are being harassed by the media. The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly published reports with specific evidence of the Kiev regime’s crimes:
– Illegal actions by the Kiev regime targeting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), its clergy and parishioners
– The Human Rights Situation in Ukraine
And now Kaja Kallas, who supports the Kiev regime’s persecution of the church, has been presented with the Order of Saint Olga, Equal-to-the-Apostles, by heathens. Satanism as it is.
Zelensky "decorated" Kallas with the Order of Princess Olga, First Class, usually awarded to women for “outstanding merits”.
Kaja Kallas’s merits for the Ukrainians are indeed “outstanding.” She has demanded that ‘mogilisation’ (i.e. mobilisation to die, derived from the world mogila = grave) be ramped up; she has dragged women into the Ukrainian army, demanded that the Kiev regime reject any attempts to make peace, helped to turn the country into a weapon of war “till the last Ukrainian,” incited hatred, and boosted corruption through unchecked infusion of millions.
What relation is there between the EU’s policy that is devastating for Ukraine and the old Russian princess who was the first Christian ruler of Russia? Olga laid the foundation for our country to become Christian: she established contacts with the Byzantine Empire, promoted the Christian faith, and paved the way for baptising Rus' under her grandson Vladimir in 988.
The current authorities entrenched in Kiev are essentially obliterating Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine by persecuting the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, seizing churches in gangster-style raids with physical violence towards the clergy and parishioners, and taking over holy relics while priests and believers are being harassed by the media. The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly published reports with specific evidence of the Kiev regime’s crimes:
– Illegal actions by the Kiev regime targeting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), its clergy and parishioners
– The Human Rights Situation in Ukraine
And now Kaja Kallas, who supports the Kiev regime’s persecution of the church, has been presented with the Order of Saint Olga, Equal-to-the-Apostles, by heathens. Satanism as it is.
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#KievRegimeCrimes
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of March 30 – April 5, 2026:
▪️ March 30 – a UAV strike targeted a farm building in the village of Arkhangelskaya Sloboda, Kherson Region.
▪️ March 30 – an FPV drone struck a civilian passenger car in the settlement of Oktyabrsky, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 30 – a UAV strike hit a commercial facility in the village of Tavrovo, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 31 – an aerial bomb struck a residential building in Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye Region. Three civilians were killed, including one child. Four more people were injured, among them one child.
▪️ April 2 – a massive attack involving fixed-wing UAVs targeted a horse farm in Akimovka Municipal District, Zaporozhye Region.
▪️ April 2 – a UAV struck the Church of the Dormition in the village of Novaya Zburyevka, Kherson Region.
▪️ April 2 – a fixed-wing UAV struck an apartment building in Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan.
▪️ April 3 – a UAV struck a civilian passenger car in Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye Region.
▪️ April 3 – a UAV struck the storage building of the Historical and Archaeological Museum in Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, Zaporozhye Region.
▪️ April 4 – a fixed-wing UAV struck the courtyard of an apartment building in Donetsk, DPR.
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of March 30 – April 5, 2026:
▪️ March 30 – a UAV strike targeted a farm building in the village of Arkhangelskaya Sloboda, Kherson Region.
▪️ March 30 – an FPV drone struck a civilian passenger car in the settlement of Oktyabrsky, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 30 – a UAV strike hit a commercial facility in the village of Tavrovo, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 31 – an aerial bomb struck a residential building in Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye Region. Three civilians were killed, including one child. Four more people were injured, among them one child.
▪️ April 2 – a massive attack involving fixed-wing UAVs targeted a horse farm in Akimovka Municipal District, Zaporozhye Region.
▪️ April 2 – a UAV struck the Church of the Dormition in the village of Novaya Zburyevka, Kherson Region.
▪️ April 2 – a fixed-wing UAV struck an apartment building in Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan.
▪️ April 3 – a UAV struck a civilian passenger car in Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye Region.
▪️ April 3 – a UAV struck the storage building of the Historical and Archaeological Museum in Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, Zaporozhye Region.
▪️ April 4 – a fixed-wing UAV struck the courtyard of an apartment building in Donetsk, DPR.
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🎙 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s response to a media question on joint Japan-Ukraine war drone technology cooperation project (April 6, 2026)
❓ Question: Japanese drone manufacturer Terra Drone Corporation has released a statement on its website confirming a strategic partnership with the Ukrainian developer Amazing Drones, which specialises in combat unmanned aerial systems. The Japanese company also openly stated that the deal forms part of a broader long-term strategy to enter the military products market, including attack systems. What can you say about this?
💬Maria Zakharova: Indeed, such information has been reported. Considering Ukraine’s relentless criminal provocations involving the use of UAVs against civilian assets in Russia, we view this step – clearly taken with the support of official authorities – as openly hostile and harmful to our country’s security interests, including the protection of civilians.
By assisting the neo-Nazi regime led by Zelensky, Japan is becoming increasingly embroiled into the conflict around Ukraine, thereby inflicting further damage to its relations with Russia, which have already significantly worsened due to Tokyo’s actions.
Clearly, such decisions do nothing to facilitate a swift resolution of the situation around Ukraine and only serve to prolong the hostilities.
☝️ A reminder: weapons posing a threat to our country and our citizens, as well as the production facilities that manufacture them on Ukrainian territory, are considered legitimate military targets for the Russian Armed Forces.
❓ Question: Japanese drone manufacturer Terra Drone Corporation has released a statement on its website confirming a strategic partnership with the Ukrainian developer Amazing Drones, which specialises in combat unmanned aerial systems. The Japanese company also openly stated that the deal forms part of a broader long-term strategy to enter the military products market, including attack systems. What can you say about this?
💬Maria Zakharova: Indeed, such information has been reported. Considering Ukraine’s relentless criminal provocations involving the use of UAVs against civilian assets in Russia, we view this step – clearly taken with the support of official authorities – as openly hostile and harmful to our country’s security interests, including the protection of civilians.
By assisting the neo-Nazi regime led by Zelensky, Japan is becoming increasingly embroiled into the conflict around Ukraine, thereby inflicting further damage to its relations with Russia, which have already significantly worsened due to Tokyo’s actions.
Clearly, such decisions do nothing to facilitate a swift resolution of the situation around Ukraine and only serve to prolong the hostilities.
☝️ A reminder: weapons posing a threat to our country and our citizens, as well as the production facilities that manufacture them on Ukrainian territory, are considered legitimate military targets for the Russian Armed Forces.
В преддверии знаменательной даты — 8️⃣1️⃣-летия Победы в Великой Отечественной войне, Организационный комитет Международной патриотической акции «Улицы в лицах» объявляет о запуске II масштабного международного танцевального флешмоба «Память хранит имена», проводимого в рамках одноименного международного благотворительного фестиваля.
🌐 В минувшем году проект продемонстрировал впечатляющий интерес: к участию присоединились не только все 89 субъектов Российской Федерации, от столичных регионов до Дальнего Востока, но и соотечественники за рубежом из более 15 стран ближнего и дальнего зарубежья.
Ожидается, что и этот год не станет исключением: в проекте планирует принять участие несколько сотен тысяч граждан и соотечественников 🇷🇺 за рубежом. Среди них — курсанты учебных заведений, действующие сотрудники органов государственной власти, военнослужащие, ветераны боевых действий и граждане с активной гражданской позицией.
В рамках Международного благотворительного фестиваля «Память хранит имена» на протяжении всего 2026 года в городах Московской области пройдет серия концертов «Мой герой — моя память». Эти мероприятия станут данью уважения героям и призваны объединить жителей региона вокруг общей идеи сохранения исторической памяти.
🎼 Центральным событием фестиваля станет масштабный гала-концерт с участием ведущих творческих коллективов и звезд российской эстрады, который соберет на одной сцене признанных мастеров искусств и молодые дарования.
📧 Электронная почта Организационного комитета: info.ehopobedy@yandex.ru
#ПамятьХранитИмена #ПамятныйВальс
🌐 В минувшем году проект продемонстрировал впечатляющий интерес: к участию присоединились не только все 89 субъектов Российской Федерации, от столичных регионов до Дальнего Востока, но и соотечественники за рубежом из более 15 стран ближнего и дальнего зарубежья.
Ожидается, что и этот год не станет исключением: в проекте планирует принять участие несколько сотен тысяч граждан и соотечественников 🇷🇺 за рубежом. Среди них — курсанты учебных заведений, действующие сотрудники органов государственной власти, военнослужащие, ветераны боевых действий и граждане с активной гражданской позицией.
В рамках Международного благотворительного фестиваля «Память хранит имена» на протяжении всего 2026 года в городах Московской области пройдет серия концертов «Мой герой — моя память». Эти мероприятия станут данью уважения героям и призваны объединить жителей региона вокруг общей идеи сохранения исторической памяти.
🎼 Центральным событием фестиваля станет масштабный гала-концерт с участием ведущих творческих коллективов и звезд российской эстрады, который соберет на одной сцене признанных мастеров искусств и молодые дарования.
📧 Электронная почта Организационного комитета: info.ehopobedy@yandex.ru
#ПамятьХранитИмена #ПамятныйВальс
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🗓 On December 29, President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree establishing April 19 as the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, perpetrated by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
The draft law to introduce this Day of Remembrance was developed by Russia's State Duma Committee on Defence in November 2025. The authors of the initiative proposed commemorating the victims on April 19, as on this date in 1943 the first legal act was issued that officially documented the Nazis’ policy of exterminating civilians in the occupied territories – Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 39 “On punishment measures for Nazi villains guilty of killing and torturing the Soviet civilian population and captured Red Army soldiers, for spies, traitors to the motherland from among Soviet citizens and for their accomplices”.
Decree No. 39 laid the legal foundations for bringing to justice Nazi criminals and their accomplices, including Italian, Romanian, Hungarian and Finnish military personnel. Materials collected during investigations conducted on the basis of Decree No. 39 formed a key part of the evidentiary base at the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Khabarovsk Trial, and other judicial proceedings against war criminals from the Axis powers.
💬 Speaking at a meeting of Pobeda (Victory) Organizing Committee on July 2, 2020, Vladimir Putin noted:
🕯 Losses caused by the actions of the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War amounted to no fewer than 27 million Soviet citizens, while the total estimated demographic losses of the USSR approached 50 million people.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
The draft law to introduce this Day of Remembrance was developed by Russia's State Duma Committee on Defence in November 2025. The authors of the initiative proposed commemorating the victims on April 19, as on this date in 1943 the first legal act was issued that officially documented the Nazis’ policy of exterminating civilians in the occupied territories – Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 39 “On punishment measures for Nazi villains guilty of killing and torturing the Soviet civilian population and captured Red Army soldiers, for spies, traitors to the motherland from among Soviet citizens and for their accomplices”.
Decree No. 39 laid the legal foundations for bringing to justice Nazi criminals and their accomplices, including Italian, Romanian, Hungarian and Finnish military personnel. Materials collected during investigations conducted on the basis of Decree No. 39 formed a key part of the evidentiary base at the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Khabarovsk Trial, and other judicial proceedings against war criminals from the Axis powers.
💬 Speaking at a meeting of Pobeda (Victory) Organizing Committee on July 2, 2020, Vladimir Putin noted:
“The Nazis planned to colonize the Soviet land, to kill or turn into slaves and to take away the languages and culture of all who lived here – the Slavs and people of other ethnicities. These crimes of the Nazis and their minions and the genocide against the peoples of the Soviet Union do not have a statute of limitations. This assessment must remain firm in our legislation and in the international law system”.
🕯 Losses caused by the actions of the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War amounted to no fewer than 27 million Soviet citizens, while the total estimated demographic losses of the USSR approached 50 million people.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
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#NoStatuteOfLimitations
Ahead of the International Day of Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps (April 11), established by UNESCO in 1952, and the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People (April 19), declared by the President of Russia in December 2025, we once again turn to archival documents that contain evidence of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators.
The Russian Military Historical Society has published on its website a selection of documents from the Central Archives of the Russian Defence Ministry. These materials include records related to the Red Army’s liberation of European countries from Nazi occupation and the freeing of concentration camp prisoners, as well as a series of reports describing atrocities of the Banderites.
👉 View the archival documents' selection in its entirety
#ArchivesSpeak
◼️ Nazi crimes and Nazi death camps
This selection of archival documents includes declassified materials that contain evidence related to the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor, Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Majdanek, as well as prisoner-of-war camps. Reports submitted by members of the Military Councils of these fronts to the Supreme High Command shed light on the scale and brutality of Nazi crimes.
Not only German forces, but also their collaborators, participated in acts of genocide against concentration camp prisoners. The materials include testimonies from liberated prisoners of war, reports by Soviet command on the extermination of prisoners immediately prior to the liberation of the camps, personal accounts of participants, and records of interrogations of Nazis and their collaborators.
– From a report dated July 30, 1944, on Nazi atrocities at the Sobibor death camp, compiled by a group of Soviet officers led by Captain Turayev. The document includes testimony from a local resident, Lukashuk, who witnessed Nazi crimes:
◼️ Banderites’ atrocities
- From the political report by the head of the political department of the Ternopol Regional Military Commissariat, dated November 5, 1945, On the activities of Ukrainian-German nationalist groups in the Ternopol Region, October 1945:
▪️ A dedicated section on the genocide of the Soviet people at the Russian MFA's website
❗️ Nazi crimes have no statute of limitations and must never be forgotten, or the world will once again face the threat of genocide of prisoners of war, civilians, and entire nations.
Ahead of the International Day of Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps (April 11), established by UNESCO in 1952, and the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People (April 19), declared by the President of Russia in December 2025, we once again turn to archival documents that contain evidence of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators.
The Russian Military Historical Society has published on its website a selection of documents from the Central Archives of the Russian Defence Ministry. These materials include records related to the Red Army’s liberation of European countries from Nazi occupation and the freeing of concentration camp prisoners, as well as a series of reports describing atrocities of the Banderites.
👉 View the archival documents' selection in its entirety
#ArchivesSpeak
◼️ Nazi crimes and Nazi death camps
This selection of archival documents includes declassified materials that contain evidence related to the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor, Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Majdanek, as well as prisoner-of-war camps. Reports submitted by members of the Military Councils of these fronts to the Supreme High Command shed light on the scale and brutality of Nazi crimes.
Not only German forces, but also their collaborators, participated in acts of genocide against concentration camp prisoners. The materials include testimonies from liberated prisoners of war, reports by Soviet command on the extermination of prisoners immediately prior to the liberation of the camps, personal accounts of participants, and records of interrogations of Nazis and their collaborators.
– From a report dated July 30, 1944, on Nazi atrocities at the Sobibor death camp, compiled by a group of Soviet officers led by Captain Turayev. The document includes testimony from a local resident, Lukashuk, who witnessed Nazi crimes:
All the corpses were piled up, doused with fuel, and burned. A huge bonfire began to blaze an hour after the train carrying the unfortunate victims arrived. It burned for days, with the stench of burning human bodies carried by the wind for many kilometres to neighbouring villages.
The Germans later burned the Jewish prisoners who had been forced to work in this death factory, and destroyed the camp in mid-1943. In the fall of 1943, they plowed over the site and sowed it with rye in an attempt to conceal their terrible crimes.
◼️ Banderites’ atrocities
- From the political report by the head of the political department of the Ternopol Regional Military Commissariat, dated November 5, 1945, On the activities of Ukrainian-German nationalist groups in the Ternopol Region, October 1945:
The activities of Ukrainian-German nationalist groups were aimed at disrupting state events, including the procurement of agricultural products. <...> In areas without military garrisons, these groups intensified their hostilities, and terrorist acts, including the killings of local party officials and rural activists, became more frequent. In addition to acts of intimidation and the search for winter clothing, <...> these groups carried out robberies of cooperative stores and private households.
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In the village of Grigorovo, Monastyrsky District, bandits killed the secretary of the village council for being the first to fulfill the grain supply quota.
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In the Vishnevsky District, on October 19, bandits executed three young women: one a milk collector, one a postwoman, and one a cafeteria cleaner. The victims were subjected to severe abuse: the bandits cut their hair, slashed their faces with needles, and committed other acts of cruelty.
▪️ A dedicated section on the genocide of the Soviet people at the Russian MFA's website
❗️ Nazi crimes have no statute of limitations and must never be forgotten, or the world will once again face the threat of genocide of prisoners of war, civilians, and entire nations.