Putin tells Netanyahu Russia will build Holocaust museum

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Putin tells Netanyahu Holocaust museum to be built

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has told the Israeli prime minister that Russia will build a Holocaust remembrance museum.

Putin met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow on Tuesday and promised Russia would build a museum dedicated to the Nazi extermination of millions of Jews.

Netanyahu said Israel would erect a monument to the Soviet army, to be completed by the time Putin visits Israel next year, the 66th anniversary of Victory Day, which commemorates the end of World War II in Europe.

Russia is on a drive to erase any doubt about the Soviet Union’s role in the allied victory. The Soviet Union was at first allied with Germany.

Netanyahu is in Russia to urge tougher sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program.