Russia creates the history it needs

LAAS LEIVAT

It wasn’t a friendly Christmas wish sent to Poland during the holidays. It was a nasty bit of fake history, typical of the Kremlin’s addiction to falsifying the historical record.

Vladimir Putin had repeated the old Soviet adage that Poland was partially responsible for initiating WWII by scheming together with Nazi Germany. In addressing Russian military leaders, the State Duma, the press corps, the SRU summit and the organizing committee of Russia’s celebration of Victory Day’s 75th anniversary, Putin has matched his official agenda with duly customized history.

The Russian ambassador to Poland was summoned to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to receive Poland’s protest to the lies. The ambassador was told “that the Stalinist historical narrative is being constantly and aggressively implemented in the Russian historical consciousness. These totalitarian claims are contradictory to the international obligations of Russia, and are a mockery of millions of victims of the Stalinist regime, which partly include the Russian people as well”.

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