An interesting article on Russian official view of WW2

[John Dunn]

There is more on this story and its context at:
http://www.newsru.com/russia/04jun2009/minoboronhist.html
http://www.newsru.com/russia/04jun2009/polska.html
As the second article point out, the offending article has now been removed from the Russian Ministry of Defence web-site.  There are, however, plenty of other curious articles remaining on the site: 
http://www.mil.ru/940/25260/index.shtml
Meanwhile Patriarch Kirill's view of history in general and the Great Patriotic War in particular can be found at:
http://www.newsru.com/religy/04jun2009/history.html

John Dunn.


-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandra Smith <Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 07:51:47 +0100
Subject: [SEELANGS] An interesting article on Russian official view of WW2

Dear colleagues,

Just to let you know about an interesting article published today in  
"Daily Telegraph" on re-writing history in Russia titled "Russia  
accuses Poland of starting Second World War":
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5445161/Russia-accuses-Poland-of-starting-Second-World-War.html

All best,
Alexandra



John Dunn
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University of Glasgow, Scotland

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