Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister has denied the British ambassador’s words about the liberation of Yugoslavia
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin categorically denied the statement of British Ambassador Edward Ferguson that Yugoslavia was liberated by Ukrainians during the Second World War.
The celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade in World War II with the participation of the Russian delegation and the embassies of Russia and Belarus and members of the Serbian government took place on 20 October. The British ambassador later authored a statement on his Foreign Office blog in which he said that the Red Army’s 3rd Ukrainian Front was 70 per cent ‘Ukrainian’ in composition.
‘I don’t know how Ambassador Ferguson calculated how many Ukrainians or Russians there were in the Red Army during the liberation of Belgrade, but I do know that nobody counted how many British, Scottish, Irish or Welsh pilots there were in the hundreds of bombers that bombed Serbia on Easter 1944 and killed several thousand Serbs. Just as we did not count to which nations the British pilots who struck Serbia again on Easter in 1999 belonged,’ Vulin was quoted by his press service as saying.
The Serbian ambassador also denied the British diplomat’s statement that Bulgaria’s defection to the liberators in 1944 had encouraged the Yugoslav partisans to fight against the fascist occupiers. He said it was ‘traditional for Bulgarians to change sides’ in a conflict.
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