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Ukraine adopted a declaration on USSR responsibility for Second World War

01:29, 21.10.2016Politics

The Verkhovnaya Rada of Ukraine, together with Poland and Lithuania, adopted the Declaration of the memory of the World War II victims. The text of the declaration was read before its adoption by the Rada Speaker, Andrey Paruby.

The document says that representatives of the parliaments of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine jointly and simultaneously accept this declaration ‘to pay tribute to the millions of victims that our people sustained during the Second World War, and condemn the foreign aggressors who tried to destroy our independence’.

The declaration states that the responsibility for ‘mass repressions against our people’ lies with the Nazi and Communist regimes.

‘We draw attention to the fact that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 23, 1939, concluded between the two totalitarian regimes - the communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany - led to an explosion, on September 1st, of the Second World War caused by the German aggression and joined by the Soviet Union on September 17,’ the declaration reads.

The document says that the aggression was followed by a massive repression of peoples.