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''The scale of one crime. Soviet POWs in World War II'' exhibition began working in Berlin on Friday, June 18. Its opening is timed to the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, RIA Novosti reports. The exhibition is presented at the Russian-German Museum Berlin-Karlhorst.
According to the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Soviet Union suffered enormous casualties during the Second World War. He said this during a speech at the opening ceremony of the exposition. The German President expressed confidence that no one suffered in that war more than the peoples inhabiting the USSR.
The honorary guests of the opening of the exhibition were diplomats from the republics of the former Soviet Union. At the same time, the Ukrainian ambassador Andriy Melnik refused to join them. He said that Berlin allegedly paid little attention to "the feelings of Ukrainians as one of the largest groups of victims of the Second World War." The German Foreign Ministry noted that they took the ambassador's speech "with some surprise."
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