Tomorrow, Russia and other countries will celebrate the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Fascism. This date has been markef since 1962 every second Sunday of September – the month of the beginning and the end of the Second World War. Memorial Day is an occasion to remember the people who died, not only under bullets, but also in the concentration camps, from hunger and disease as a result of the inhuman experiments of Nazi "scientists".
According to the scientific director of the Russian Military-Historical Society, Professor of MGIMO (U) of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Mikhail Myagkov, the Second World War killed 55 million people. In the Soviet Union alone 26.6 million people died, of whom 18 million were from the civilian population. "Because of the German policy of destruction, violence, oppression and hunger inspired on the Occupied Territories, more than 7 million Soviet people were killed. We must never allow such developments as a presumptuous mode, when people of power are going too far and begin to kill people for political and military purposes. We cannot allow a Third World War," Myagkov stated, quoting Einstein: "I do not know what weapons will be used in the Third World War, but in the Fourth we will fight with sticks and stones."
The historian stressed that the victims of fascism were not only a result of hostilities, as some Western historians and politicians are trying to prove today: "There was a special machine, and a Nazi extermination policy. The pre-planned genocide of the population in the East was determined by the entire system of German policies, these orders were given by the command of the Wehrmacht and the supreme command of the frontline before the attack on the USSR."
Mikhail Myagkov emphasized the fact that during the war up to 18 million people passed through German concentration camps, of whom 11 million were killed. "When these facts were revealed in Nuremberg, when they showed documentary footage of Auschwitz that we saw. Four million people died in this camp. The Nazis tried to use the hair of the already dead people for their needs. Skin, human skin. Glasses, false jaws, everything was used. What level of cynicism did the Nazis reach in these German destruction factories, when they carried out their policies? The world must always remember this. And you know, when the average person in the West today is asked a question: "What is Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Maidana, Treblinka, Sachsenhausen?" After all, many people simply do not respond to these questions. They will say: "These are some place names." In Germany, more or less they carry out this policy, but in other European countries such as France, Great Britain, the same US, people have actually forgotten the memory of the millions and millions of people who died because of this inhuman killing machine. We all need to remember, to know. History should, in this case, not only be a witness, but it seems to me, also a supervisor, to ensure that such crimes never be committed again."
