Today
on the International Memory Day of the Victims of Fascism,
Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO and deputy of
the Moscow City Duma Eugeni Bunimovich, member of the Youth
Chamber at the Moscow City Duma and member of the Regional
Council of the Moscow YABLOKO Alexander Gnezdilov and number
of two in YABLOKO’s list of candidates in the Western Administrative
District of Moscow Shamil Amirov have laid 70 red carnations
to the monument to the prisoners of concentration camps.
According to Gnezdilov, the number of flowers symbolized 70
years since the beginning of the Second World War and also
that about 70 million people died in the war during 1939 –
1945.
“It is strange that Moscow does not conduct large-scale memory
actions on the International Memory Day of the Victims of
Fascism, as many families have their memory of the war and
would like to pay their tribute to the victims,” said Eugeni
Bunimovich. “My father who went through the entire war thought
that fascism was defeated forever, but unfortunately I, his
son, can not say so already,” he noted.
Bunimovich also said that the Memory Day coincided with the
sad anniversary of the act of terror at the Kashirskoye highway
in Moscow. He marked that these acts of terror represented
a manifestation of fascism. “We should remember this and fight
against it,” he said.
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