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Realpolitik dictates Russia-West feud over WWII memories


Cui Heng

MOSCOW: On June 24, 1945, former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin stood on top of Vladimir Lenin’s tomb and watched Marshal Georgy Zhukov review the ground armored force that defeated Nazi Germany. That was the most glorious moment in the Soviet history. On the same day 75 years later, Russia held a military parade to commemorate the victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Right before the parade, President Vladimir Putin discussed in an article in US Magazine National Interest the shady deals between the great powers of Europe before the outbreak of World War II.

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Source:: The Frontier Post

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