journalist letter: If I had to speak in the Bundestag, As a boy Kole

If I had to speak in the Bundestag, As a boy Kole, I, perhaps said these words:
– Dear deputies. Today I saw a miracle. And this miracle called Germany. I walked up to you and looking at the beautiful streets of Berlin, people, the remarkable monuments, and now I'm here, and I look at you. And I understand, that everything is a miracle. That you were born and live in Germany. Why do I think so?

Because given the fact, that your soldiers do we have, in the occupied territories, Red Army soldiers had every moral right to destroy the entire German people. Leave in place the German scorched field, ruins and only textbook paragraphs would be reminded of, that was once a country.

You probably do not remember all the details of the occupation, but this is not necessary. I just remind you that, that the Wehrmacht soldiers and SS did with the Soviet children. shot them. Often in front of parents. Or vice versa, first shot at her father and mother, and then in children. Your soldiers are raping children. Children burned alive. Sent to concentration camps. Where they bled, to make serum for your soldiers. Children starved. Children ate death your Shepherd. Children were used as targets. Children brutally tortured just for fun.

Or here's two examples. Wehrmacht officer interfered with sleep baby, He took his foot and smashed his head on the corner of the stove. Your pilots at the station the train was bombed Lychkovo, which tried to take the children to the rear, and then your aces chased the frightened kids, shooting them in a bare field. Two thousand children were killed.

For the mere fact, What did you do with the kids, repeat, Red Army could destroy Germany completely with its inhabitants. I had the moral right. But did. I regret it? Of course not. I admire the steel will of my ancestors, who found himself in some incredible strength, not to become as beasts, what were the soldiers of the Wehrmacht. Buckles of German soldiers write "God with us". But they were the product of hell and suffered hell on this earth. Red Army soldiers were members of the Komsomol and Communist, but the Soviet people were much larger Christians , Enlightened religious than people in Europe. And did not retaliate. could understand, what the hell is hell not win.

You do not need to ask for our forgiveness, because the person you are in no way to blame. You can not be responsible for their forefathers. And than, God forgives only. But I'll be honest - for me the Germans forever a stranger, strange people. It's not because you're a bad person. It screams pain Wehrmacht burned child in me. And you have to take, that at least is still my generation – for which the memory of the war is the grandfather awards, the scars, its front-line friends – will perceive you as. What will happen then, I do not know. maybe, after we come mankurts that everyone will forget. And we have done a lot for this, we have a lot to do prosrali, but I hope, that all is not lost for Russia.

We certainly need to work together . Russian and Germans. It is necessary to solve problems together. Deal with LIH and build gas pipelines. But you have to accept one fact: we will never repent for our great this war. And especially for the Victory. And even more so in front of you. Anyway, repeat, my generation.

Because we are then saved not only himself. We saved you from yourself. And I do not even know, more importantly.

Andrey Medvedev

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