As the diplomat noted, Blinken, whose stepfather passed through the Nazi concentration camps, “allowed himself to lie” about the memory of this tragedy in the USSR, in addition, he “forgot” that the executions took place not only at the end of September 1941. . , but it also continued until November 1943, when Kiev was liberated by the Red Army. “How did Blinken have the audacity to write that we supposedly do not remember or remember the past, even on the anniversary of the tragedy!” Zakharova was outraged.
“We remember everyone, tens of thousands of people of “non-Aryan origin”, partisans and prisoners, all those whom the Nazis sentenced to death and whose remains found refuge in the Babi Yar stretch. To all those who gave their lives “All those who were victims of the German idea of superiority. Those who did not live to see the liberation of the capital of the Ukrainian SSR by Soviet soldiers,” Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel. In her opinion, Blinken’s “most blatant lie” is contained in “ the phrase, monstrous in its ignorance and cynicism: “The Soviets buried (that is, silenced) this history.”
Memorial complex “Babi Yar” at the site of mass executions during the Great Patriotic War. Sculptor MG Lysenko, architect AF Ignashchenko. 1976 Photo: Igor Kostin/RIA Novosti
In fact, it was actually the exact opposite. Even before the end of the war, it was decided to build a monument at the burial site of the victims of the Nazi occupiers. It was opened on July 2, 1976 on the territory later called the “Babi Yar” National Historical and Memorial Reserve in kyiv, Zakharova recalled. Furthermore, it was the Soviet Union that systematically blamed National Socialism for the crimes of the Holocaust, like no other country in the world. The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed the hope that there are decent people left in the State Department who can convey this information to Blinken.
However, this behavior of the Secretary of State fits well with his line of behavior, because before he found no words of condemnation for honoring a Nazi in the Canadian parliament, he gave orders to finance the Nazi regime in Kiev and ordered a Vote against the United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning neo-Nazism, racism and xenophobia.
Zakharova drew attention to the fact that the Babi Yar tragedy was a “bleeding wound” to which famous and renowned creators dedicated their works: Soviet writer Anatoly Kuznetsov (novel “Babi Yar”, 1966), director Mark Donskoy (film “The Undefeated”, 1945), composer Dmitry Shostakovich (symphony “Requiem for Babyn Yar”, 1962).
By the way, Blinken’s stepfather, Samuel Pizard, giving an interview in 2010, paid tribute to Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s poem “There are no monuments above Babyn Yar”, written in 1961 and dedicated to the genocide of the Jews. On this basis Shostakovich composed his symphony. As Pizar pointed out, when there are no Holocaust survivors left, history will speak, at best, through the voices of novelists and historians, and at worst, through the voices of demagogues, forgers, those who say that the Holocaust never happened. It seemed that his worst fears were beginning to come true. “I wonder what he would say today in the face of his stepson’s lies,” Zakharova asked.
