An interesting article on Russian official view of WW2

[David Powelstock]

Kovalev's piece is a logical train wreck. (It seems to have been taken down
from the official site now.) The giveaway moment, imo, is the contradiction
between his many references to Hitler's longstanding designs on Russia and
his assertion that Germany's desire to build a highway and rail line from
Berlin to Eastern Prussia was reasonable and benign. So, if the Poles had
acceded to that, Hitler's declared goal (since 1925, as Kovalev himself
notes) of invading Russia would have just gone away? This quite apart from
the presumptuousness of asserting that Poland should have just given away
their sovereignty and saved all of Europe in the process. Maybe if Russia
had just surrendered to Hitler, the same result could have been achieved?
It's so easy to give away what doesn't belong to you.

David Powelstock


-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Maria Dmytriyeva
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 4:20 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [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-accus
es-Poland-of-starting-Second-World-War.html

In case anybody needs the original text issued by the Ministry of Defense it
can be found here:

http://www.mil.ru/files/Vimisli_o_roli_SSSR.rtf

With best regards,
Maria

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