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The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution aimed at countering the glorification of Nazism, RIA Novosti reports. 118 countries supported it. Another 49 opposed it, and 14 chose to abstain.
Russia became the creator of the document. China and Israel supported it. The list of opponents included the United States, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Australia and others.
Some unfriendly countries insisted on including an amendment to the document stating that Moscow justifies its own territorial aggression against Ukraine with the ''supposed goal of eliminating neo-Nazism.'' The authors of the amendment hoped that, if it was adopted, Russia would abandon the resolution, but their hopes remained unfounded. Russia supported the document, but those who approved the amendment still did not vote for the adoption of the resolution. At the same time, Russia, Belarus, China, Syria, North Korea and Egypt distanced themselves from the Western amendment.
The Russian resolution contains calls to countries around the world for legislative, educational and other measures aimed at rebuffing attempts to revise the historical facts and results of the Second World War.
The resolution also states the need to oppose the denial of war crimes during the war, glorification and propaganda of Nazism, the desecration of war monuments.
Every year, the support in the UN General Assembly for Russia's annual resolution on the fight against the glorification of Nazism is expanding, Russian diplomats noted.
Russkiy Mir
