Russia says Normandy landings memorials are part of 'false'

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed that events marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day are painting a "false" picture about who won World War II. In an article published Tuesday, Lavrov has said the West has propagated a "false" history of the conflicts that downplays the Soviet Union's contributions. Lavrov has written: "Young people are being told that the main credit for the victory over Nazism and the liberation of Europe goes not to the Soviet troops, but to the West for the Normandy landings." Thursday, June 6, marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when American, Canadian and British forces landed in Normandy, France, and began liberating Nazi-occupied areas. Discover more stories on Business Insider Spain .



Ahead of the 75th anniversary of D-Day (Normandy Landings), Russia's foreign minister has declared that celebrations of the event are part of a "false" history that belittles the Soviet Union's contribution SW Business Directory to the defeat of Nazi Germany. . Sergei Lavrov has rebuked Western powers in an article published in the Russian magazine International Affairs on Tuesday, ahead of events in Europe commemorating the D-Day landings that helped change the course of World War II . "False interpretations of history are being included in the Western educational system with mystifications and pseudo-historical theories designed to belittle the feat of our ancestors ," Lavrov has written. The Soviet, American and British flags in the center of Moscow.







The Soviet, American and British flags in the center of Moscow. Reuters "Young people are being told that the main credit for the victory over Nazism and the liberation of Europe goes not to the Soviet troops, but to the West for the Normandy landings, which took place less than a year before the Nazism was defeated. "It was the people of the Soviet Union who broke the backbone of the Third Reich . That is a fact." More than 150,000 troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada participated in D-Day on June 6, 1944 . A little less than a year later, on May 7, 1945, the German High Command surrendered in Berlin. By June 1944, Russia had practically turned back the Nazi forces that began invading in 1941 and began pursuing them westward toward Berlin.