In a meeting with Russian Jewish leaders yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that there are no statutes of limitation on Nazi crimes. “Out of all the Jews exterminated by the Nazis, the majority were citizens of the Soviet Union, and this is a source of our common pain,” Putin emphasized, reported TASS. He noted that Russia was “categorically against losing sight of crimes of this magnitude that have no statute of limitations.”
“And we are doing this, we are pursuing a policy aimed at ensuring that nothing like this will ever happen again in the history of mankind,” Putin stressed. (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70398 )
Putin’s meeting with members of the Jewish community was timed to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is marked on January 27, the day the Red Army liberated the most notorious Nazi death camp, Auschwitz in 1945. “I know the position of the Jewish community of Russia, I know the position of the State of Israel regarding the role and significance of the Red Army in the victory over Nazism and over fascism. We highly appreciate it, but—I want to say this once again—this is of particular importance for our people,” Putin highlighted.
