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Authors: Valery Vorobiev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation
to the Kingdom of Morocco, Professor, Doctor of Science (Law);
Ekaterina Vorobieva, Assistant Professor, Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations,
Candidate of Science (Law)
THIS YEAR will see the 70th anniversary of the
Great Victory, one more illustrious jubilee date
commemorating the end of the Great Patriotic
War. But this year, along with voices from pro-
gressive forces that make objective assessments
of events and results of the Second World War,
stressing their significance and prominence, in
some countries obnoxious (there is no other
word) officials are coming forward and so-called
historians are waking up who are painting up-
side-down pictures of all that has to do with that
global tragedy.
The most prominent role among such "experts" belongs to Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny
Yatsenyuk, who has announced that the Soviet Union attacked Ukraine and Germany, and Polish
Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna, who has suggested either Warsaw or London instead of
Moscow as the venue of the Victory Parade.
So it is an important task today to study and analyze what the Second World War put the Jews
through, and to describe their heroism in fighting fascism.
It is worth stating the obvious fact that the heaviest losses in the Second World War were suffered
by two peoples - nearly 19 million Russians and about six million Jews.
The Second World War inflicted multiple disasters on the Jewish people during its five and a
half years and six million Jews were exterminated in Nazi camps. It failed, however, to break
Jewish spirit and, moreover, became one more step towards the creation of the Jewish state.
The Soviet Union played a key role in the establishment of the State of Israel. In the critical pe-
riod of the Second World War and during postwar diplomatic battles at the United Nations over
the future of Palestine, it was Soviet diplomatic, military and political support that determined
the course of developments. It was mainly to the Soviet Union that requests for help and support
came from the leaders of the Jewish community of Palestine and later, during the critical time
of the War of Independence, from the leaders of Israel.
The creation of modern Israel can be considered one of the most illustrious events of the 20th
century both in the history of the Jewish people and in world history in general. The revival of
the Israeli state was a uniquely successful project, to use the modern word. That state came into
being almost exactly at the time predicted by the founder of political Zionism, Theodor Herzl
The Soviet Union's Salvation of Jews During the Great Patriotic
War and Its Support for the Creation of the State of Israel