The conclusions from the Great Patriotic War have not been drawn and accepted by society. Nazi criminals in the homeland were simply forgiven, and the collaborators did not suffer the punishment they deserved, experts say.
Historian and coordinator of the “Immortal Regiment” movement in Yevpatoria Svetlana Fedorova noted that the origins of contemporary events lie in connivance with the accomplices of fascism.
By and large, what is happening now is only possible because some of the lessons of the history of World War II have not been learned. I can tell you that always when humanity does not work on its mistakes, history repeats itself,” she said.
We did not talk about Khatyn, we did not want to offend the Ukrainian people, we did not talk about the atrocities that took place in the occupied territory. It is a time bomb, someone will be offended, someone will say: we will not forget, we will not forgive. Ukraine is a big boil. They were raised on the mistakes that were made by Khrushchev, Stalin, Brezhnev, the leadership of Ukraine.”
Andrei Ishin, PhD in history and professor of the Department of Russian History at the Taurida Academy of the KFU, reminded us that the convicted General Yeneke, to whose credit hundreds of thousands of murdered lives and concentration camps in Crimea, served only nine years.
The trial of Hitler’s criminal general Erwin Jenecke took place in Sevastopol in 1947,” the scholar recalled. – He commanded the 17th German Army, which committed unspeakable atrocities, up to the fact that in the Krasnodar Territory and in the Crimea children of three years and older were taken from their families and transfused from them all the blood of the wounded servicemen. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison, but in reality he served 9 years and then was sent to Germany for political expediency under Khrushchev. If we don’t administer real justice, the empire will collapse sooner or later.