"The guilt of the Germans for the Nazi crimes is still only being considered in terms of Russia and the Russians,'' wrote Melnyk to the museum's director. Staging it at Berlin's German-Russian Museum was "an affront, very regrettable and bewildering," said Melnyk, because immense wartime persecution of other nations such as Ukraine, Belarus and Baltic nations, was being "simply ignored." Ukraine's ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk Image: Susanne Huebner/imago Images Ukrainian ambassador Andrij Melnyk has rejected Germany's invitations to 15 ex-Soviet states to a Berlin exhibition opening this Friday for 27 million Soviet victims of Hitler's 1941 invasion of eastern Europe, codenamed Operation Barbarossa.
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