Germany, Austria and Ukraine refused to vote on the inadmissibility of glorifying Nazism.
We are talking about the vote on November 10, 2026 in the third committee of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly on the annual Russian resolution "Combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other methods that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related".
This year, 117 countries voted in favor of the decision. Nine more, including Switzerland and Turkey, chose to abstain.
53 countries did not want to support the resolution, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, USA, Ukraine, France, Finland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Japan.
The authors of the document strongly condemn cases of glorification and propaganda of Nazism. They also note the need to increase efforts aimed at preserving historical truth. The document suggests taking measures to prevent the denial of crimes against humanity and rewriting the results of World War II.
The resolution opposes the use in education of materials and rhetoric that promote racism, discrimination, hatred and violence based on ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief.