Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - International Service: Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said: "Why should Germany think that only Jews should receive compensation, while survivors from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Tatars or Georgians should not be entitled to such compensation for the crimes of Nazi Germany during World War II?"
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson went on to note that Germany always boasts of the "humanitarian gesture" of the Berlin government, according to which, in 2019, it allocated 10 million euros to modernize a hospital in St. Petersburg; a decision that was not wrong, but the circumstances in which this decision was made are questionable.
Zakharova continued: “When the German side finally, after a long time, decided to make a humanitarian gesture, Moscow had been asking Berlin for several years not to limit the payment of compensation to only a few survivors of the siege of Leningrad.”
She also called the German government’s policy discriminatory, stressing that Russia could not accept the arguments of the Berlin government and would continue to work for the full implementation of this procedure.
The Russian diplomat also stressed that the issue was not money, but the need to establish historical and human justice.
It is worth noting that before the start of World War II, 2.5 million people lived in the former tsarist capital, including 400,000 children. Hitler targeted this second-largest city (after Moscow), the cradle of the Russian revolution. He wanted to prevent people from leaving the city (so that there would be no need to feed them) so that people would starve to death.