World war II veteran from the rostrum of the UN tried to convince to fight extremism
After the victory over fascism the world should learn a lesson And to combat extremism, preventing such again, said the UN veteran of the great Patriotic war, soldiers of the red army Boris Feldman.
the events of the Day of memory of victims of the Holocaust were obliged to go to the UN on 27 January, but was postponed due to the closure of offices due to bad weather. Feldman was invited to speak at the meeting of the General Assembly.
" We, the soldiers of the Soviet Union, in coalition with America, England, Canada defeated Hitler's fascism. In may 1945 it seemed that the world forever free from the danger of destruction", He said Wednesday from the rostrum of the General Assembly.
According to Feldman, " today we are the most painful to realize that fresh fiends terrorists And their accomplices, the anti-Semites, neo-Nazis would destroy civilization."
He tried to convince the international community to prevent the tragedy." I am a person who is 95 years, the last war, famine camps, ghettos, polyusi his blood Europe, being twice wounded, freeing Romania, Hungary, Austria And was awarded the big soldier's reward! Citizens beware!" "said the veteran.
Feldman told how during the war was in the ghetto in the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine, which, in addition to 3 thousand local residents was inhabited by Jews From Romania And Bukovina. He elaborated on the terrible memories of his time in the ghetto And about what sort of bullying And humiliation faced citizens, most Of whom lost their lives.
"From generation to generation should convey the truth about the Holocaust death camps constructed throughout Europe where they were killed, burned, gassed And tortured millions of people, most of them 6 million Jews," he tried to convince the veteran.
the UN Secretary-General ban Ki-moon began his speech with, put historical accents." 70 years ago yesterday, the Red army liberated camping death Auschwitz-Birkenau, putting an end to nightmare night, what is happening there, " He said.
Discussion on such information broke out once the Minister of foreign Affairs of Poland Grzegorz Shetina said that the concentration camp in Auschwitz was liberated by Ukrainian soldiers.
Ban Ki-moon said that when visiting the former concentration camp in November 2013 saw the entire machine by deprivation of life ", the barracks where there were Jews, poles, Soviet plennik, dissidents, people with disabilities, homosexuals, And " furnace, where living people turned into bones."
"The scale of shocking crimes in our days," said the Secretary-General And admitted: " today, After all, what We have seen, all that We know, what we have done, humanity is faced with new challenges ".
" Anti - Semitism is a cruel reality. Jews continue to be killed only because they are Jews. Extremism And dehumanization are present throughout the world, " said UN Secretary-General.
" We must support human rights, democratic freedoms And our responsibility to protect people from the risk. And We must respond to terrorism And provocation to decide not to aggravate the problem, " he tried to convince Him.
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