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Nazi crimes do not have a statute of limitations, Russian President Vladimir Putin is sure. He said this in a greeting sent to the participants of the Lessons of Nuremberg forum, the Kremlin website reports. Friday, November 20, marks 75 years since the start of the historic trial.
The head of state recalled that 75 years ago, the Hitlerite regime was defeated, but it was impossible to put an end to this. The triumphant military victory had to end with a political, legal and moral condemnation of Nazism and its deadly ideology.
Specific organizers - the top leadership of Nazi Germany - were behind the mass terror, massacres, enslavement and targeted extermination of entire nations. And the states that were subjected to aggression, millions of people who went through inhuman trials, torment and suffering, rightly counted on retribution, on the inevitable, public punishment of criminals.
In August 1945, the USSR, USA, Great Britain and France adopted an agreement on the organization of the tribunal, it was supported by 19 more countries.
The Soviet people, who took upon themselves the most powerful, most brutal blows of the aggressor, had their own highest score for the Nazis - for those who died on the battlefields, for the wounded and maimed, for destroyed cities and burned-out villages, for the massacres of people in the occupied territories.
These atrocities in relation to civilian Soviet residents were dictated by special directives of the Nazis and were elevated by the Nazis to the rank of state policy.
The President is convinced that the conclusions of Nuremberg do not lose their relevance today. He called the duty of the entire world community to stand guard over the decisions of the Court of Peoples, which formed the basis of the post-war world order.
Russkiy Mir
