Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia warns against attempts to revise results of WWII

ITAR-TASS
09.03.2005, 18.18

MOSCOW, March 9 (Itar-Tass) — Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All
Russia warned against attempts to revise the results of World War II.

Speaking at the opening of the 9th World Russian People~Rs Assembly
on Wednesday, Alexy II said, ~SToday some are trying to slander and
bury in oblivion the feat of our people and to equalise aggressors
and those who fought them.~T

He believes it necessary to ~Sdo everything possible to ensure that
these attempts do not succeed and that the thankful memory of those
who fought against the strongest army of the world safeguarded mankind
from a new mutual extermination.~T

The patriarch stressed, ~SThe idea of the global dictatorship of
terrorism still dominates many minds. We must think about how to
counter terrorism, how to preserve the greatest achievement of the
victory ~V lasting peace between nations, how to revive the ideal of
unity and spiritual strength that were shown in those years so that
the lessons of the great victory were not forgotten but would serve
for the future of mankind.~T

The World Russian People~Rs Assembly, which opened at Moscow~Rs Christ
the Saviour Cathedral on Wednesday, is devoted to the unity of peoples
as a guarantee of the victory over fascism and terrorism.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, officials from the Defence Ministry,
politicians, statesmen, public and religious figures addressed the
congress.

The religious delegates include the chairman of the Central Moslem
Board, Talgat Tadzhutdin, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church of
Old Believers, Metropolitan Andrian, the head of the Russian eparchy of
the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Ezras, the chairman of the
Congress of the Jewish Religious Communities of Russia, Rabbi Zinovy
Kogan, and a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad,
Archbishop Mark of Germany.