New remembrance day created by the Kremlin omits any mention of Jewish Holocaust victims, despite falling on the same date as the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising The post Russia accused of Holocaust distortion over ‘Genocide of the Soviet People’ memorial day appeared first on The Times of Israel.

On Friday, May 9, military parades and various festive events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over the Third Reich took place throughout Russia. The parades were held in an atmosphere of heightened security.

But in the Soviet Era, beginning in 1952, Vladivostok was a closed military city, and the only people allowed in and out were those with special permission. After the city reopened on Jan. 1, 1992, Father Effing was able to celebrate Mass at the Vladivostok church for the first time in nearly 70 years — on the church’s front steps, in biting cold.

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The Russian Revolution and the scientific community.

There is talk of Russia moving into Belarus, launching attacks on Latvia and Lithuania, and preparing a massive operation in and around the Black Sea.