US diplomat highlighted the importance of joint operations during WWII amidst White House posted that America and Great Britain had victory in 1945

VLADIVOSTOK, May 12, 2020, VladNews, Pan Pacific Agency. On May 8, the US White House posted on its Instagram and Twitter official pages a publication dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the victory over the Nazis. Russians and residents of other countries of the former Soviet Union was frustrated on publication since it listed only the USA and Britain among the victors, and the USSR was not mentioned at all, VladNews reported.

On May 8, 1945, America and Great Britain had victory over the Nazis!

"America's spirit will always win. In the end, that's what happens." pic.twitter.com/umCOwRXWlB

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 8, 2020

Russian officials reacted immediately. “One gets the impression that this approach is designed to neutralize the effect of the two presidents’ joint statement on the 75th anniversary of the meeting of Soviet and American soldiers on the Elbe. In the Russian-American statement, “The Spirit of the Elbe” was praised, but in the US White House tweet – only American was,” Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeperson, said. It could be called “falsification, mockery of common sense, rewriting of history,” she added.

Earlier the heads of the two countries, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, signed a joint statement, that emphasized the joint efforts in the common enemy defeat. “April 25, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the historic meeting of American and Soviet troops who shook hands on a damaged bridge over the Elbe River. This event was a harbinger of a decisive defeat of the Nazi regime. The meeting on the Elbe was the culmination of the tremendous efforts of many countries and peoples, joining forces in the framework of the United Nations Declaration of 1942,” the words of the presidents are quoted on the website of the US Embassy in Russia.

US Ambassador to Russia John J. Sullivan in an interview to the Russian Interfax agency said that “the defeat of Nazi Germany and other countries of the Hitler coalition was caused not by one country, but by many countries united by a common goal”. “Americans, including, of course, myself, are proud to have supported the Russian people and the peoples of other republics in the form of assistance under the Lend-Lease program, sacrificing their own lives on many battlefields in wartime, not only in Europe, but also in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific islands,” the high-ranking diplomat said.