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Netanya - President Vladimir Putin has called criminal the attempts to rewrite the WWII history and to make equal executors and their victims.

“The rewriting of history is a crime to the millions who died for the victory and the next generations who must know the true heroes of WWII and be able to tell between the truth and impudent and cynical lies,” he said in the Israeli town of Netanya, where a monument to Soviet soldiers who defeated the Nazi Germany was unveiled on Monday.

“We must do the utmost to keep bygone the criminal Nazi doctrines, no matter under which camouflage they may come, and to make inviolable the judgments of the Nuremberg Tribunal,” he said.

“We must cherish and defend the truth about that war and oppose attempts to justify Nazi abettors. We will never allow executors and their victims to be made equals, the distortion of the truth and replacement of it with various falsifications and conjectures,” Putin said.

“The uplifting white dove, the white dove’s wings, symbolize the victory of good and peace. Let these great eternal values always be the solid foundation of [relations] between our countries, friendship between our countries and our peoples,” Putin said.

He said he was very impressed with the ceremony, which strengthened his respect for “the Jewish people, the people of Israel.”

“Certainly we are grateful for everything that commemorates people who died in that war,” Putin said.