... carried the gate of the auschwitz birkenau concentration camp was commanded by ukrainian ihor pobirchenko. cumulative demographic losses of ukrainians and citizens of ukraine of other nationalities during 1939-1945 are currently estimated at more than 8 million people. in fact, ukrainians had to stand on different sides of the front, but after that, there was no enmity left, only a bitter understanding of losses. this is exactly what united. both veterans of the red army and veterans upa, who lived to be able to talk calmly among themselves, lived to dialogue, and who got along very quickly, in fact, well enough quickly, maybe as quickly as we would like them, their grandchildren, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but got along, understood each other because they understood the price, that's why by 2023 may 8. was officially considered a day of remembrance and reconciliation, the reconciliation of both sides for the sake of world peace, which russia could not resist violating. it is not that someone won over someone, but that this is a day of victory over nazism, something passed and