Memorial to the Civilians of the USSR – Victims of the Nazi Genocide During the Great Patriotic War

The monument was created by sculptor Andrey Korobtsov and architect Konstantin Fomin and is based on a stele with a figure of a mother and children on top. A special feature of the monument are 150 sculptural bas-reliefs created on the basis of stories of real people and photos provided by different regions of Russia.

The complex in memory of the victims of the Nazi genocide was built in the village of Zaitsevo, Gatchina district, which during the Great Patriotic War was home to numerous POW camps, as well as children's donor concentration camps.

This was trapped in the queue and begged to be published prior to the interview for those to wonder if Carlson watched this as part of his prep. This is how the Kremlin described the event:

Head of the Russian and the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko took part in the meeting in the opening of a memorial to the civilians of the USSR - victims of the Nazi genocide in the years of the Great Patriotic War. The event is timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the complete removal Siege of Leningrad.

The memorial is another large complex in St. Petersburg honoring the Great Patriotic War but specifically to those whom the war was aimed at eliminating via Plan Ost—Slavs of all sorts, but Russian Slavs most importantly. Plan Ost called for the elimination of 30-40% of all Slavs while driving the rest into Siberia. Putin and Lukashenko made the short speeches that follow:

Vladimir Putin: Dear Alexander Grigoryevich, Dear friends!

January 27 is one of the most important dates of our common, national history. On this day in 1944, the Red Army troops completely broke the siege of Leningrad, and a year later, in 1945, they liberated Auschwitz.

These two events are united not only by one historical epoch. The tragedy and martyrdom of Leningrad residents, as well as the prisoners of the death camps, will forever remain evidence of the monstrous nature of Nazism, the unthinkable suffering of millions of innocent, peaceful citizens.

For eight decades now, our pain has not subsided for these terrible victims, for the crippled destinies, for all those who went through incredible trials. Our compassion is passed down from generation to generation and has no statute of limitations, just as the crimes of Hitler's fanatics and their accomplices, those who coldly planned and brutally committed the genocide of the Soviet people, do not have it.

These crimes were not committed on battlefields. Mass killings of unarmed and defenseless elderly people, women, children, and disabled people were deliberate, systematic punitive actions.

Of the total number of losses suffered by the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, more than half were civilians. And this is a convincing proof that the Nazis and their satellites were not at war with a political regime or ideology – no. Their goal was the richest natural resources, the territories of our country and the physical destruction of the majority of citizens. For the rest, they have prepared the role of slaves, deprived of their native culture, traditions and language.

These villainous goals are reflected in many Nazi documents and were embodied in terrible, chilling mass executions and murders of the civilian population. Belarusian Khatyn and Bryansk Khatsun, Krasnoe, Babi Yar, Zmiyevskaya Balka and Tin Hill are only a small part of the places where massacres were committed.

Death was put on stream in concentration camps, ghettos, prisons in Germany, in the occupied lands of Austria, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Soviet Union. There was also a death camp here, in Gatchina, and not far away there was a camp where children were kept, very young, babies from whom the Nazis literally siphoned blood for their soldiers.

And of course, the siege of Leningrad was unprecedented in terms of cruelty and cynicism. The Nazis ' solution is to exterminate an entire city. More than a million Leningraders, I emphasize, namely civilians, became victims of hunger, cold, endless shelling and bombing.

These data were obtained in the course of research by reputable historians and scientists, documents, and proved in court. Such work will also be carried out on all other crimes committed by the Nazis during the war against the civilian population of our country.

It is to them – all the peaceful citizens of the Soviet Union whose lives were claimed by the Moloch of the Nazi genocide-that the memorial that we are opening today is dedicated. It is intended to become one of the symbols of our memory, our moral and sacred duty to investigate all crimes and identify those responsible.

It is important for us today, it is important for the future. We see how the results of the Nuremberg trials, during which Nazism was given an unambiguous legal assessment, are actually being reviewed today. In some countries, not only do they rewrite history and justify the executioners: revanchists and neo-Nazis have adopted the ideology and methods of the Nazis.

In the Baltic states, tens of thousands of people are declared "subhuman" and deprived of the most basic rights, subjected to harassment. The regime in Kiev exalts Hitler's collaborators, the SS, and uses terror against all the undesirables. Barbaric attacks on peaceful cities and towns, the killing of old people, women, and children continue. In a number of European countries, Russophobia is promoted as a state policy.

We will do everything to stop and finally eradicate Nazism. The followers of the Nazi executioners, whatever they call themselves today, are doomed. And nothing can stop the desire of millions of people not only in our country, but throughout the world for true freedom, justice, peace and security.

Bright memory to all, all those who died. Glory to the Soviet soldier who crushed Nazism!

Thanks

Alexander : Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich, Dear veterans, Children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes of besieged Leningrad! Dear friends from St. Petersburg!

Thank you for inviting me. It is very important for me to be here on such sacred days for our peoples.

Today, on the Day of the complete lifting of the siege of Leningrad, we are immersed in the thoughts and feelings of people who have experienced hell on Earth. Even after 80 years, the memory of these events makes our hearts tighten, we once again experience the bitterness of loss and the joy of liberation and the incredible intensity of the struggle for life, for our Victory.

The price of the Great Victory is our common pain, common to all the peoples condemned to death by Hitler's Germany. Belarusians feel it like no other. This pain is cast in bronze and carved in stone on thousands of mass graves of unknown soldiers, in places of mass executions of civilians and selfless feats of Red Army soldiers, partisans, underground fighters from Moscow to Brest and Berlin.

Each such monument is a witness, prosecutor and judge. Each monument is an irrefutable proof of the genocide of the Soviet people. This is a sentence for the ages, no matter how much someone would like it today.

The memory of the victims of that war, of the heroism of our fathers and grandfathers, hinders many people today, especially the ideological henchmen of murderers and traitors. This is what they feel today and honor the executioners in their parliaments, it was they who started the war with graves and monuments in Poland, the Baltic States and Ukraine. Complete lunatics.

How can you think that by destroying a monument, you will destroy the memory that lives in the heart of the people? A people who have found the strength to build new peaceful relations with those states that only yesterday brought suffering and death to our lands.

The memory of the heroism of the victors, their spiritual feats will be preserved forever, including here, in this poignant image of mothers and children of Leningrad, Khatyn, Babi Yar and tens of thousands of Soviet cities and villages destroyed and depopulated. It is important for us, Belarusians, that this mournful monument will preserve a part of our wounded soul, the memory of the tragedy of our people.

You know, dear friends, let's be honest. We – in vast Russia and Belarus – have thousands and thousands of monuments, and the vast majority of these monuments are dedicated to those heroes-Red Army soldiers, partisans, people who defended their land with weapons at that time. And somehow, perhaps not quite deliberately, we did not forget, but did not pay that tribute to our rear guards, those who performed the feat in the rear. We have talked about this a lot, but most of the monuments are dedicated to those who defended their homeland with weapons and were able to defend themselves.

And the greatness of this decision is that we pay tribute to the people and children that the Russian President just spoke about, who could not protect themselves. The last drop of blood was squeezed out of them to give to the fascists, to the Fascist soldiers. It probably makes sense that we make up for what we may have missed in Soviet times.

Many thanks to you, Mr Putin, to all the Russian people, to all those who took part in the creation of this monument. Thank you to the leadership of the Leningrad Region, the Russian Military Historical Society, and the authors ' team. Thank you from all the long-suffering Belarusian people.

We can't change the past, but we can protect the future. May this memorial preserve our common historical memory, the brotherhood of peoples and the strength of the unbreakable unity of nations that have united in the fight against the world's evil and defeated it. This is very important for us today.

Peace, kindness and happiness to all of you! [My Emphasis]

As Putin said, the fight against Nazism isn’t over yet and will continue until it’s finally over—what was insisted and agreed upon at Yalta but was deterred by the USA & UK as they adopted the Nazi as their own thus beginning the long chain of lies until today. I hope Tucker Carlson was aware of at least some of all that.

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