The place is not wrestled

Russia looks like a holy fool on a porch who annoyingly demonstrates its ulcers and scabs to the public and laughs gloatingly when the audience shies away with disgust. Both me and me on the list of mischievous people! Sanctions? So, I still rebel them with antisanctions!

But some painted scratches are dangerous - they will see that the holy fool carefully hides.

Apparently, the Kremlin sought to avoid excessive pedaling the topic of Vladimir Putin’s non-participation in events on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The situation with the invitation is reallyincomprehensible . And the topic in all respects is slippery. Therefore, Dmitry Peskov in an interview with Ehu tried to reduce the meaning of both the events themselves and the president’s decision not to go to them.

The Kremlin officialdom was not particularly excited. However, make the fool pray to God - he will write that nothing else to expect from the fascist goropa. Some publications showed a kind of wit . And some opposition leaders were sincerely indignant at the behavior of the Poles.

In the schedule of Barack Obama, such a trip is also not listed, but no one in America is dramatized. Nevertheless, for the United States, this topic is fraught with unpleasant questions. The main question sounds like this: why did the allies not bombed Auschwitz and railway tracks to it to stop the death of the death? After all, Jewish leaders persistently asked them about this.

There is no unequivocal answer to this question. George Bush in January 2008, visiting the National Memorial Yad Va-shhem in Jerusalem, recognized Roosevelt's decision with a mistake.

The political leadership of the United States and the UK certainly knew about the Holocaust. In December 1942, 12 members of the anti -Hitler coalition published a joint declaration condemning the "cold -blooded destruction" of Jews. But no joint or unilateral actions for condemnation followed. At the Bermud Conference on the Jewish issue, convened in April 1943, during the days of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, no decisions were made. The United States refused to increase the immigration quota for the Jews, and the UK - to remove the ban on immigration to their dandemic territory, to Palestine.

Even the highest generals of the Allies did not know about the horrors of death camps. When in April 1945 the allied troops (units of the 3rd Army of General Patton) liberated the first camp - Ordruf, which was a member of the Buchenwald complex - Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Bradley went to watch him. All three left the memories of this event, and in all three descriptions it is clear that what they saw turned out to be the complete news for them. “Until now, I knew about this only in general terms and from secondary sources,” writes Eisenhower. “But I’m sure that I have never experienced such shock as in this case at any other time.” “Patton went into the corner where he was sick,” Bradley recalls . “My tongue was taken away from indignation. The sight was so terrible that we were simultaneously shocked and stunned.” “Later, we forced the inhabitants of Weimar to visit the“ sights ”of an even greater concentration camp, Buchenwald, located north of the city,” Patton adds .

Neither the US -British nor Soviet troops received orders to seize death camps or to create interference with "death marches" - foot evacuation of prisoners to the Roich. They were freed along the way, in the course of solving other operational problems. Auschwitz was released during the Visl-Oder operation. The large city, the closest to the camp, Krakow, units of the 1st Ukrainian Front were occupied on January 19. Six days earlier, a column of 66 thousand survivors and capable of moving prisoners from the Aushvitz-Birkenau camp.

They evacuated not only prisoners, but also 514,843 items of clothing remaining from liquidated prisoners. The crematoriums were also ordered to dismantle and transport, so that in a new place it was possible to continue the destruction of the Jews. But there was not enough time, the crematorium had to be exposed; The latter was blown up on January 22, five days before the arrival of the Soviet troops. In Birkenau, the last 600 prisoners were killed a few hours before the appearance of the Soviet avant -garde; There was nowhere to burn the corpses.

According to the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia Vladimir Makarov (it is in this archive that Auschwitzim’s documents are stored), about three thousand people remained in the camp at the time of liberation.

Unlike American generals, the front commander Marshal Konev did not consider it necessary to visit the camp, fearing for his nerves:

On the second day after the liberation of this terrible camp, which has now become a symbol of fascist barbarism around the world, I turned out to be relatively not far from it. The first information about what this camp was like was already reported to me. But I didn’t want to see the death camp with my own eyes, but I simply did not deliberately allow myself. The fighting was in full swing, and their leadership required such tension that I thought it was not entitled to give my own experiences mental strength and time. There, in the war, I did not belong to myself.

About what was happening in the camp after liberation is told from the words of the former prisoner of Tatyana Nanieva, the author of the book “Auschwitz. The Nazis and the final solution of the Jewish question“ British historian Lawrence Figure:

Sabered by the Germans in 1942, when the hospital, where she worked as a nurse, was surrounded, she survived two and a half years of imprisonment, and all this time she was forced to observe how her comrades in misfortune, Soviet prisoners, were subjected to violence from the Germans. Later, in January 1945, she heard the soldiers of the Red Army approach the camp - with a large “pomp”, singing patriotic songs and raising their heads high: “We were seized with joy and glee. We believed that before victory it was already a stone's throw and that a normal life was about to begin again. I was stickering in my homeland.” And here, at the very moment of liberation, when she was overwhelmed by joy, two Red Army soldiers approached her. One of them was drunk, and he shouted: "Well, how are you well fun here? Whores!" Tatyana felt her world collapsed, and the military, swaying, tried to get a gun. She ran away and managed to hide, while the avant -garde of the army, which released the camp, sobered up. But, the soldiers or sober were drunken, the accusation against Tatyana remained extremely clear: "betrayal of their homeland." For her "crime" - for allowing the Germans to capture her - Tatyana received six years of camps and a lifelong settlement in Siberia.

Here is another story - about a woman who herself left the camp, taking advantage of the lack of security:

Helena Qitronova and her sister all of May and June 1945 wandered in confusion along the overflowed roads of recently liberated Germany, mixing with German refugees moving west. They slept in sheds or buildings destroyed by bombing, getting food for themselves wherever possible. A little time passed, and they came across a soldier of the Red Army. However, in relation to Helena and her sister, these men did not behave as liberators, but as conquerors. There were times when Soviet soldiers were looking for places where refugees stayed at night. “They were drunk - terribly drunk,” Helen recalls. “He behaved like wild animals.” The soldiers burst into temporary shelters, "chose pretty girls and raped them." When this happened, Helena was hiding under the body of her sister, hoping that when she saw her sister - ten years older than herself and who was often mistaken for her mother - the soldiers would look in another place. This trick was triggered. But she heard everything that the Red Army did with other women: “I heard screams - the women shouted while there was enough strength, but, in the end, they fell silent. It happened, they were raped until death. Or choked. I turned away because I didn’t want to see it because I couldn’t help them. I was afraid that they would rape me and there were no animals. They hid, they found our shelters and raped my friends.

When almost ten years ago I quoted the Bilin Bilin, which had not yet been translated into the Russian book, attacked me with accusations of a dirty slander against the Soviet warrior-liberator. When the book was published in Russian, they attacked Bivor himself.

The book of Lawrence Rice has been translated and published last year. But I don’t see something to pounce on her. Everyone does not give a damn.

That's the whole fairy tale about “blasphemy”, “insult” and “distortion”. So maybe it’s not bad that neither Obama nor Putin go to Auschwitz. They have nothing to do there.