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Int'l community should fight together against misanthropist crimes: Putin

Xinhua, January 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

The international community should fight together to prevent misanthropic crimes like the Holocaust from happening again, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

"Crimes like 'the Holocaust' should not be repeated. It is our common duty and, without exaggeration, the most important and pressing task for the international community," Putin said at a memorial event held here in the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.

War crimes, including the Holocaust, have no statute of limitation, the president said, adding that attempts to revise war history and revive the Nazi misanthropic ideology are immoral.

"There could be neither forgiveness, nor forgetfulness," an online Kremlin statement quoted Putin as saying.

According to Putin, history demonstrated that claims for global superiority and attempts to press on sovereign countries by force could bring the humankind to the "terrible edge".

"Civilization has been rapidly replaced by barbarity, peace by war and aggression where the traditional values are mocked and destroyed," Putin said, citing Ukraine as an example of where " dangerous double standards and indifference" have been applied lately.

Attempts still prevails in the world to split the society into ethnic, racial and religious groups, Putin said.

Following the steps of the Nazis, nationalists, extremists and terrorists in the world nowadays go with their "primitive instincts" of anti-Semitism, Russophobia and the aggressive intolerance towards other nationalities, cultures and custom.

"We must work together to counter these threats, protect peace and liberty, stand for the countries' right to choose their own path," Putin called.

"It is necessary today, in the 21st century, to increase the level of the collective security, to promote values of humanity and cooperation, and to always remember the lessons of history," Putin concluded.

Jan. 27 is the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, a genocide in which almost 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Endite