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The country has shifted focus away from the Holocaust to the suffering of Soviet people during World War Two.
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Down below, depicted in bronze, are real stories of human suffering.
At the bottom of some steps burns an eternal flame surrounded by the names of Nazi concentration and extermination camps.
Auschwitz, Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka…
Terrifying words synonymous with the Holocaust.
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