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4 September 2021

Attacking Stalin is an attack on Russia's past

The head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, stated that attacking Joseph Stalin and combining his actions from before and during World War II is part of an attack on Russia's past and "on the results of World War II." Eastern Express talks to professor Olexiy Haran from University of Kiev Mohyla Academy about Russian propaganda and rewriting post-war history.

Source: Poland In

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