?? Statement of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation regarding 80th anniversary since the start of the Nuremberg Trials (November, 2025)

Statement in full (Telegraph)

On November 20, 1945, the International Military Tribunal for the trial and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis countries (the Nuremberg Trials) commenced its work.

The establishment of the tribunal became possible as a result of the historic Victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War.

The Nuremberg Trials established that the war crimes committed by the Nazis were carried out on a scale unprecedented in the history of warfare and were accompanied by unparalleled brutality and terror. The atrocities of the Nazis in the temporarily occupied territories of the Soviet Union were extremely inhumane and reached an especially massive scale. Mass killings of Soviet citizens and atrocities against them were all part of a plan to exterminate civilians and colonise the invaded territory.

The Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation views the verdicts of the Nuremberg Trials as a cornerstone of the present-day world order. The principles of international law as set forth in the Nuremberg Charter and its verdicts were reaffirmed in UN General Assembly Resolution 95(1) of December 11, 1946.

The Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation recalls that the war unleashed by Nazi Germany against the USSR left 27 million Soviet citizens dead and emphasises that the act of displacing and exterminating civilians in the USSR by the Nazis and their accomplices as recognised by the verdicts of the Nuremberg Trials must be viewed as an act of genocide against the peoples of the Soviet Union.

The Senators of the Russian Federation call on all UN member states to support the resolution “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”, which is submitted annually for consideration by the UN General Assembly.

The Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation states that some Western countries have been seeking to cast the outcomes of the Nuremberg Trials into oblivion, contributing to the rehabilitation of Nazism and undermining the international legal framework resulting from the Yalta and Potsdam conferences that has helped prevent a new world war for 80 years.

?? The Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation calls on all countries and nations around the world to respect and defend the principles as devised during the Nuremberg Trials for preventing wars, acts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, as well as countering the emergence of Nazism and fascism in any form, while also opposing attempts to revise the outcomes of World War II and falsifying its history.