Role of the Peoples of the CSTO Countries in the Great Victory Discussed in Moscow

Today, on April 24, the Central Armed Forces Museum of the Russian Federation in Moscow hosted the International scientific and practical conference "The Contribution of the Peoples of the CSTO Member States to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War", organized by the CSTO Secretariat and the Joint Staff and dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.

Imangali Tasmagambetov, CSTO Secretary General, condemned the attempts to revise the outcome of the Second World War.

"Who would have thought that the forces that would try to revise the outcome of the Second World War and even rehabilitate war criminals would emerge in Europe, the very Europe that it took so much effort to liberate from fascism?" Imangali Tasmagambetov pointed out.

Aleksandr Fomin, deputy Minister of Defence of Russia, spoke about the Memory Lane Museum.

"In memory of more than 33 million participants of the Great Patriotic War, a unique museum has been opened on the territory of the military theme park 'Patriot', located in Moscow.  It includes the Memory Lane complex, 1418 meters in length, one meter for each day of the war," Aleksandr Fomin shared.

The study "On the contribution of the Soviet Union republics to the common victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. Preventing falsification of history" by the Institute of CIS countries (Institute of Diaspora and integration) was also presented at the conference.

Sergei Pospelov, Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, in his speech emphasized the urgent need to protect the historical truth.

"On December 9, 2024, at its 17th plenary session, the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly adopted an Address to the peoples of the Organisation's Member States and parliamentarians of the world in connection with the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War and the Victory of the Anti-Hitler Coalition in the Second World War. It strongly condemns the attempts to revise the outcome of the Second World War and forget its lessons, to question the decisions and assessments contained in the verdict of the International Military Tribunal and confirmed by the UN General Assembly, to give equal rights to victims and executioners, and to desecrate the precious memory of the fallen. It draws attention to the fact that the Nuremberg Tribunal definitively condemned the crimes of the Nazi leaders, qualifying them as having no statute of limitations," Sergei Pospelov noted.

The CSTO PA Executive Secretary also introduced Model Acts developed and adopted by the Assembly to improve legislation in the field of countering Nazism and protecting historical truth, and emphasized the importance of joint work of the parliaments of the CSTO countries to prevent the attempts to revise the outcome of the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War.