If those watching were to accept Putin’s version of Second World War history as valid, it means they’d be giving a green light for Putin to make similar claims to other states once part of the Soviet Union.
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Why is there such a Russian focus on the Second World War? Because it’s used to justify authoritarian states, the rule of dictators like Putin and Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko.
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