The man who led the Soviet Army’s liberation of Auschwitz attended Sunday’s Holocaust Day commemoration in Moscow. The ceremony attended by Gen. Vassily Petrenko, 90, was one of many in Europe marking the 57th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation.
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