The spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, stated that Germany still refuses to recognize the siege of Leningrad as an act of genocide. "By the way, Berlin still refuses to recognize the siege of Leningrad and other Nazi crimes against Soviet citizens as acts of genocide against the peoples of the Soviet Union.
The current ruling circles of Germany obviously failed to learn the lessons of history," he said during a briefing held on Thursday.
Zakharova noted that the current German authorities could not fully understand the lessons of history and draw correct conclusions from them. "Not because the German people wanted it that way. Nothing like that. But because these people were brought to Berlin by those who had previously brought such people to Berlin," he concluded.
