Iran Press/ Europe: "We are extremely indignant at the attempt to distort the effect... of our country's decisive contribution," Russia's foreign affairs ministry said in a statement, AFP reported.
A White House statement on Facebook this week, to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, only mentioned the United States and Britain as victors over the Nazis.
"American officials have neither the courage nor the will to pay homage to the undeniable role and the huge death toll suffered by the Red Army and the Soviet people in the name of all humanity," the Russian statement continued.
Calling the US statement "particularly petty," Moscow urged Washington not to make the memory of 1945 "a new problem for bilateral relations, which are already going through a difficult time."
The criticism follows the White House Victory Day statement leaving out the USSR.
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