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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, November 20 (Xinhua) — The international scientific and practical forum "No Statute of Limitations. Nuremberg. 80 Years," dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the opening of the International Military Tribunal for the Major Nazi Criminals, opened in Moscow on Thursday. It brought together representatives of government agencies, youth and volunteer organizations, academic and expert circles, and archival and museum staff.
In his greeting to forum participants, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that the crimes committed by the Nazis have no statute of limitations. "Such crimes have no statute of limitations, and they were unequivocally assessed 80 years ago, by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Its norms and principles remain relevant today: they help us firmly resist attempts to distort historical facts and serve the search for worthy responses to today's global challenges and threats," the president's message, published on the Kremlin website, reads.
In his video greeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that historians play a special role in preserving historical memory and providing reliable, undistorted information about the tragic events of the past. "We hope that further study of archival documents and materials will allow us to introduce new evidence of the bloody crimes and atrocities committed by the Nazis and their collaborators into scientific dissemination," he stated, adding that Russia will continue to seek international condemnation of the crimes committed by the Nazi invaders and their accomplices against Soviet citizens during the Great Patriotic War.
In turn, Sergei Naryshkin, Chairman of the Russian Historical Society and Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, emphasized that Russia condemns any attempts to whitewash the Nazis and firmly maintains the inviolability of the results of the Nuremberg Tribunal. According to him, the true significance of the Nuremberg Trials can only be appreciated by fully understanding the scale of the crimes committed by the Nazis. "Thanks to this unique trial, Nazi ideology became a symbol of absolute evil. The International Military Tribunal fulfilled a truly historic mission—it completed the military defeat of Nazism with a significant ideological and moral victory," Naryshkin noted, emphasizing that the Nuremberg Tribunal dealt a crushing blow to the foundations of Nazi ideology and also provided a convincing response to the unprecedented challenge posed by the Nazis to all civilized humanity and all universally recognized norms of morality and law.
The Nuremberg Trials took place from November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946. There were 403 open court hearings. A total of 360 witnesses were examined, and approximately 200,000 written statements were reviewed. A total of 24 Nazi German government and military leaders were brought to trial.
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