The Consulate General of Russia will hold a traditional flower laying ceremony in Buchenwald

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The Consulate General of Russia will hold a traditional flower laying ceremony in Buchenwald

The Consulate General of Russia will organize a traditional flower laying in Buchenwald – RIA Novosti, 04/11/2023

The Consulate General of Russia will hold a traditional flower laying ceremony in Buchenwald

The management of the Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau memorial complexes for the second year in a row did not invite the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Leipzig to the ceremonies dedicated to … RIA Novosti, 11/04/2023

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BERLIN, April 11 – RIA Novosti. For the second year in a row, the management of the Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau memorials did not invite the Russian Consulate General in Leipzig to the ceremonies dedicated to the anniversary of the liberation of these Nazi concentration camps, but despite the refusal, the wreath laying will take place on other dates, the consul general of the Russian Federation in Leipzig, Andrey Dronov, told RIA Novosti. Tuesday marks a momentous date – the International Day of Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camp Prisoners in memory of the April 11, 1945 uprising of prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. During World War II, the Nazis killed more than 76,000 people there. “We have received a somewhat traditional letter from officials at the Buchenwald Memorial Complex stating that our participation in the wreath laying ceremony on the eve of the liberation date is undesirable,” Dronov said. The administration, according to Dronov, also added that anonymous representatives of the Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian public will participate in their ceremony, which will take place on April 17-18. “In a response letter, we said that we take note of the position of the leaders of the complex, but at the same time, we will not give up our right to lay wreaths at the monument on our own,” the consul said. general. Dronov did not rule out that the management of the complexes could transfer information about the dates of the proposed visit to third parties, since last year in the former division of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Dora-Mittelbau, an anti-provocation -Russian with Ukrainian flags and banners were prepared by unknown persons. “In Mittelbau-Dora there is a square where there are pedestals with soil from the states whose citizens were tortured in this camp. Then we went to the pedestal with the inscription “USSR” and deposited there a memorial wreath and flowers, which greatly upset the people who were waiting for us at the memorial itself,” the consul general added. According to Dronov, this time, in order to avoid provocations, the consulate general will lay wreaths in the former concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau on dates that will not be announced. “So our traditional event, which we have always organized, we will also do this time around,” Dronov stressed. similar situation has developed in the Czech Republic, where such events take place on the territory of the former Terezin camp.As RIA Novosti was informed in the diplomatic mission, Russian diplomats did not receive invitations there for the second year. Usually commemorative events are held on May 11 and the invitation comes in advance, this year there is still none, the embassy said. The Russian diplomatic mission in Poland told RIA Novosti that “neither embassy representatives nor consulate general representatives have been invited to such events for some time.” In particular, representatives of the diplomatic mission were not invited to the anniversaries of the liberation of such well-known concentration camps as Auschwitz-Birkenau (January 27) and Sobibor (October 15).

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The Consulate General of Russia will hold a traditional flower laying ceremony in Buchenwald