The Battle of Moscow, considered one of the largest during World War II, occurred between October 1941 and January 1942. Adolf Hitler, leader, National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party), saw in Moscow, the capital of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), their primary military and political objective in the invasion of Soviet Union. The war between the Axis Powers and the USSR turned out to be the worst with more than a million casualties.
Hitler, born today in 1889, his birthday descends a pall of gloom in Moscow. Xenophobia and hate crimes spirals upwards especially against foreigners including students from Africa, Arab nations, south-east Asian countries, non-Slavic Russians from Chechnya.
The unfortunate and sensitive ‘hate-filled events’ by anti-Semitist’s like shouting slogans and stage attacks on dark-skinned people around Hitler’s birthday, is human rights violations while Russian authorities cover it up by terming it mere hooliganism. As per a human rights statistic, 53 people had died in the year 2006 due to hate crimes.
Skinhead racism that may border on extreme violence has apparently prompted Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy in Moscow to advise its foreign students to remain in dormitories.
Liah Ganeline, from Israel, a student of the Medical Academy, having been advised to stay back in her room till normalcy is restored, is pertinently baffled as she says, ‘It is nice that the university is taking care of us, but on the other hand it’s absurd that our freedom is being limited because of some militant groups.’
Via: msnbc
