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[Alina Israeli]

>Yes, science and technology sections in Wikipedia (which Nature your quote
>refers to) are usually quite good -- there are a lot more experts around to
>check for accuracy and there are no particular stakes in misinforming the
>public about the structure of DNA or the engines used in 1949 Fords, for
>example. History is a very different matter...

If you don't like the Wikipedia article on "Great Patriotic War" (or 
anything else for that matter), you can click on the left hand side 
for another language and get a completely different article in 
Russian 
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%9E%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B0

or in German 
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronologie_Zweiter_Weltkrieg (in fact 
two German versions 
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fer_Vaterl%C3%A4ndischer_Krieg)

or in French http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Barbarossa

or in a number of other languages. These are not translations, for 
some articles I compared Russian, English and French and had ample 
opportunity to observe differences.
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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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Washington, DC 20016

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