In the resolution of the Congress of People’s Deputies on Relations with Russia’s European Neighbors, unanimously adopted on June 11, 2023 in Warsaw, states: “The history of Russia is full of tragic episodes in relations with its neighbors. The Putin regime has continued this “tradition”. Russian society will not be able to become free and just, will not be able to create conditions for a secure and lasting world, without admitting mistakes, without realizing the crimes committed in the past and committed in the present, and without repenting of them.
Further in the document, the Congress lists the events that it considers crimes committed by the Soviet and Russian authorities against neighboring countries. Among other things, repeated attempts to destroy Ukrainian statehood, Holodomor, repressions and terror against the national intelligentsia and participants in the national liberation movement of Ukraine, violent Russification and waging an imperial war against Ukraine with the organization of terror against civilians in its course are called crimes.
