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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, November 20 (Xinhua) — The Nuremberg Tribunal marked the beginning of a series of trials of Nazi war criminals, including Japanese militarists. Alexei Pushkov, Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Interaction with the Media, stated this in an interview with Xinhua on the sidelines of the International Scientific and Practical Forum "No Statute of Limitations. Nuremberg. 80 Years," dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the start of the International Military Tribunal for Major Nazi War Criminals. The forum opened in Moscow on Thursday.
"The Nuremberg Tribunal marked the beginning of a series of trials of Nazi criminals, including Japanese war criminals. Japanese militarism was condemned on par with German Nazism. At the Tokyo Trials, it was condemned as a crime against humanity," the Russian senator pointed out, emphasizing that Nuremberg established a moral taboo against supporting Nazism, neo-Nazism, ultra-nationalism, and militarism.
According to A. Pushkov, the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials is not only symbolic and historical, but also an extremely important political date, as the historical legacy of Nuremberg remains relevant today. "The current world order established after World War II, including as a result of the Nuremberg Trials, the Tokyo Tribunal, the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, and so on, is based on the key role of the five victorious powers—the Soviet Union, China, the United States, Great Britain, and France," the Xinhua source noted.
The senator condemned attempts by some Western media and politicians to distort history and emphasized that Russia played a decisive role in the defeat of Nazi Germany, while China, which suffered enormous losses during the war in the Far East and Southeast Asia, played a huge role in the victory over Japan. "I must say that very little is said about this in the modern Western media. But we in Russia remember this," he added.
A. Pushkov believes that BRICS needs to develop a common platform for coordinating approaches to the study of history in order to counter Western media distortions of historical memory. "We must create a common program in the BRICS countries, within which we would agree on scholarly contacts, contacts between journalists and students, for the purpose of studying and teaching new generations the most important aspects of history," he urged, noting that Russia and China could play a role in initiating such a program.
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