MOSCOW - It was the silence, the smell of ashes and the boundless surrounding expanse that struck Soviet soldier Ivan Martynushkin when his unit arrived in January 1945 to liberate the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
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Agence France-Presse: Soviet soldier describes what it was like to liberate Auschwitz
This photo taken on January 13, 2005 shows the main gate entering the Nazi Auschwitz death camp at sunrise. Poland marks on January 27, 2015 70 years since the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest German death camp, in what is now southern Poland. AFP PHOTO/JANEK SKARZYNSKI
