Russian legislators supported a non-binding motion asking Germany to allocate more funds for non-Jewish Nazi victims in Russia. The motion approved by the lower house of Parliament says Germany’s decision to compensate only Jewish victims of Nazism is an “act of injustice toward Russian citizens of other nationalities who fought and suffered just as much” during World War II.
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