Opinion | Putin’s efforts to curtail scrutiny of the Stalin era may succeed in the short term, but the years of research undertaken by Memorial cannot simply be erased from the historical record.
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The USSR won the Second World War for us. Too bad they also helped start it The Soviet Union armed, fed and encouraged an expansionist Nazi Germany only to ultimately become its worst victim
Author of the article: Tristin Hopper
Publishing date: May 08, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 7 minute read • From left to right: Nazi German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, German Under State Secretary Friedrich Gaus, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Photo taken after the signing of the 1939 Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Photo by AFP/Getty Images
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