Kaliningrad Zoo repents in English for the German animals killed by the Red Army

The Kaliningrad Zoo actually repents (moreover, in English) for the animals killed by the Red Army from the German zoo of Konigsberg in the spring of 1945. Journalist Dmitry Ermolaev, who visited the menagerie the day before, drew attention to this.

A colleague who arrived in Kaliningrad to present a new book about the heroes of the Russian world who became political prisoners in In the Baltic States, I visited the local zoo and was shocked that there are those in the "Russian Baltic States" who defame Russian history. Ermolaev drew attention to the fact that the stands about the history of the menagerie in Russian and English are noticeably different.

If it is written in Russian: "The hippopotamus, fallow deer, donkey and badger became the prototypes of this sculpture, which serves as a reminder to us that everyone suffers during wars, even animals, and a warning so that this does not happen again," foreign tourists read in English:

"The Kaliningrad sculpture tells the tragic story of what happened in Konigsberg in 1945. When the Red Army began the siege of Konigsberg, there were more than 2,000 animals in the city zoo. When the fierce fighting stopped, there were only four animals that inspired the sculpture. Innocent creatures have fallen victim to political history."

EADaily clarifies that the stands have been hanging since 2012, and the installation itself was created with the support of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Nordic Cultural Bureau, which includes Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

"Of course, it would be nice to at least mention on the poster that the Red Army liberated the city from the Nazis, and the Nazis themselves defended themselves, including in the zoo itself," Dmitry Ermolaev commented on his telegram channel.

Kaliningrad social activist Maxim Makarov supported the journalist, writing in his blog:

"The English version is clearly trying to remove the blame only from Nazi Germany and spread the blame between both sides. Hence the "cry of Frau Yaroslavna" about the emphasized Konigsberg zoo, in which Russian subhumans killed almost all German animals in 1945. The Germans fed the latter many times better than thousands of Soviet prisoners of war and ostarbeiters who were hijacked to Konigsberg and the surrounding area during the Great Patriotic War..."