>>“**Among the Holocaust victims, a large number were Soviet Jews**,” he said, adding that “we should also not forget about the sacrifices of other Soviet peoples, the Russian people” who defended “their homeland and the whole world from the brown plague [of Nazism].” Precisely why hitler targeted them, because they were soviet/communist, and had in store for germany what they had for russia https://youtu.be/JDeCl3w2wo0?t=48 >>This last move did not sit well with Moscow, which labeled it a falsification of history. Putin himself eventually joined the heated debate between the two nations, when he called Jozef Lipski, the Polish ambassador to Berlin from 1934 to 1939, **“a bastard and an anti-Semitic pig.”** He went emotional here. His boyfriend is a jew or what? This kneejerk reaction reeks of PC brainwashing