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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said at a regular press briefing on Thursday that the Nanjing Massacre on December 13, 1937, which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Nanjing, has become a symbol of the inhumanity and barbarity of Japanese militarism.

Zakharova noted that on December 13, the entire civilized world will commemorate one of the most brutal and tragic pages in China’s history — the Nanjing Massacre that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in the Chinese city of Nanjing.

The irrefutable historical truth about the events in Nanjing was legally established and codified in the verdicts of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal in 1947. These rulings, along with the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal, form the unshakeable foundation of the post-war world order and modern international law, said Zakharova. 

Any attempts to question them, rehabilitate Nazism and militarism, revise the results of World War II, or downplay the scale of the atrocities committed are absolutely unacceptable and must be resolutely condemned by the entire international community, said the spokesperson.

The Nanjing Massacre took place when Japanese troops captured the then-Chinese capital on December 13, 1937. Over six weeks, they killed approximately 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers in one of the most barbaric episodes of World War II, according to Xinhua. 

Global Times