Russia Foreign Ministry puzzled by Marshal Antonescu’s rehabilitation

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed bewilderment about the decision of the Bucharest Court of Appeals to rehabilitate the deeds of Marshal Ion Antonescu and members of his government, as well as about the recognition as lawful of Romania’s military control over the territory of Soviet Moldavia and Northern Bukovina in the WW II. According to the Russian MFA “justifying the Nazi accomplice, whose crimes against civilian population in then-occupied the USSR are still remembered, runs counter to common sense and logic of postwar settlements, final documents of the Nuremberg trials” The authors of the document say that “the award insulting to memory of victims of the World War II could be hardly viewed otherwise than an attempt to revise its results, to forget edifying lessons of the history”. According to the Russian MFA it is regrettable that he verdict was passed by the court in the country that took part in the final stage of the war and destruction of Nazism. The Russian MFA hopes the Supreme Court of Romania, will review the scandalous ruling. The Bucharest Court of Appeal annulled the Secret Protocol no 3 of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and rehabilitated Marshal Ion Antonescu, who was convicted and executed for military crimes in 1946, as a result of the aggression “against the people of the Soviet Russia”.