MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. Finland, as a satellite state of the Third Reich, is no less responsible for unleashing World War II than Germany, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev wrote in an op-ed for TASS titled 'The New Finnish Doctrine: Stupidity, Lies, Ingratitude.’
"Finland, as a satellite of Hitler that attacked the USSR, bears exactly the same responsibility for unleashing the war, all the horrors and suffering of our population, as Nazi Germany," Medvedev emphasized. "The more so, since, criminal liability for genocide and war crimes does not imply the application of the statute of limitations, and the time when the crimes occurred does not affect their classification as crimes against humanity."
The politician recalled that, according to UN General Assembly Resolution 96 (I) of 1946, the international community recognized genocide as a crime even before the adoption of the specialized Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by the UN in 1948. "For example, the genocide of the Herero and Nama tribes in 1904-1908 by the colonial troops of Imperial Germany under General Lothar von Trotha in Namibia was classified as an act of genocide only in a special report of the Commission on Human Rights under the UN Economic and Social Council in 1985, and was recognized as such by Berlin only in 2004," he noted.
