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Russian lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill that bans insults against World War II veterans, with offenders facing possible sentences of up to five years in jail. The move came after a judge last month ruled that jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny was guilty of defaming a World War II veteran who was among a group of Russians President Vladimir
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6 March 2021 – Fox News The nuns were from the order of St. Catherine of Alexandria. Polish archaeologists have recently identified previously uncovered skeletons of three Catholic nuns who were killed by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II. The Russian army invaded Poland in 1944 after Germany’s occupation, hoping to gain control by imprisoning, exiling and assassinating Polish soldiers, civilians and members of its religious community. Historical records from
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President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia’s lower-house speaker to draft a legal ban on comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, according to a Kremlin statement published Saturday. Putin instructed State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin to draft by July 1 amendments to Russia’s law cementing Soviet victory over Nazi Germany that would “prohibit publicly equating the role of the
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Edited by: A. N. The vicious behavior of the Red Army in eastern Europe in the last days of World War II has been widely documented but all too often excused because of the crimes committed by German forces in the USSR. But the crimes the Red Army visited on Soviet citizens in the Soviet West after the war was
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Ensign James Bateman, from Huntsville, Ala., scans the horizon utilizing the ‘big eyes’ while standing watch on the on the bridge wing of the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain on Tuesday. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Markus Castaneda)
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September 25, 2020 17:35 GMT – By Amos Chapple & Dana Katharina Vaskova – RFE/RL Two years after an art treasure with a harrowing backstory was uncovered in a Prague house, the holder has gone public with the historic scale of the discovery. Fearful that the occupying Nazi forces in Prague could confiscate a lifetime’s worth of artwork, Jewish painter Gertrud
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Putin attends the traditional opening of the school year known as the Day of Knowledge, via video conference from the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on September 1.
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2020/06/28 – 08:00 – Euromaidan Press In September last year we revealed how the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs smeared the Baltic countries by claiming they have not become democracies respecting the rule of law. Despite the pushback, the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign has once again been dialed to history, due to the postponed Victory day parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of WWII. This
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June 25, 2020 10:26 GMT – By RFE/RL After the controversial removal of a statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev in Prague in April, the wartime Red Army commander has returned to Prague — in force. As part of the eighth annual Landscape Festival, 12 small statues of Konev were installed around Prague’s Zizkov district. Some are painted to look like
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revisionist article about World War II has been subject to major controversy since its publication in a U.S. journal on June 18.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said the world owed the Soviet Union a debt of gratitude for its contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The Russian leader made the comments at the beginning of a massive military parade through Red Square in Moscow to mark the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory in
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British and American veterans are set to leave Portsmouth and travel to Normandy for the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings, the Second World War veterans have journeyed from across the UK, and the US ahead of a series of memorial events to be held this week. It is understood that some of the former servicemen are returning to the
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UkraineAlert by Victor Tregubov It seems the world is finally waking up to Vladimir Putin’s dangerous exploitation of World War II. In the run-up to this month’s seventy-fifth anniversary of the allied victory over Nazi Germany, international media coverage included a number of reports highlighting modern Russia’s efforts to weaponize the memory of the Second World War. At the same
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Warning! This article contains verbal diarrhea. WASHINGTON, May 13. /TASS/. Russia’s Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov has slammed as cynical the attempts of Ukraine’s diplomatic mission in Washington to draw a parallel between victory over Nazism in 1945 and the domestic Ukrainian conflict. The ambassador commented on a message by Ukraine’s military attache Boris Kremenetsky sent to the
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The coronavirus pandemic has affected all strands of human activity, including the trajectory of pro-Kremlin disinformation. Revision of World War II history, which had become a focus of pro-Kremlin disinformation, faded into the background as media outlets loyal to the Kremlin turned their focus to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as the local authorities in Prague removed a statue to Soviet
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Mike Pompeo issued a statement on May the 7th, that has the Kremlin and the RTrolls having a major tantrum in the corner. Did Pompeo tell an outright lie about Russia, or was he speaking the 100% truth? You decide. Here is the statement: “While May 1945 brought the end of the Second World War in Europe, it did not
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Unlike Belarus, Ukrainian authorities decided to cancel Victory in Europe Day celebrations in Ukraine on May 8 and 9 due to the coronavirus quarantine. Heads of regional government administrations were told to “personally or on a deputy-level” individually thank World War 2 veterans in their regions. Hromadske took a look at how Ukraine commemorated the day of victory over the
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As for Ukraine and Georgia, Russian president congratulated only peoples of these countries Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated US President Donald Trump, French leader Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as well as leaders of post-Soviet countries and the peoples of Ukraine and Georgia on Victory Day. This became known from the press service of the Kremlin. In a
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Under Lend-Lease, the United States provided more than one-third of all the explosives used by the Soviet Union during the war. The United States and the British Commonwealth provided 55 percent of all the aluminum the Soviet Union used during the war and more than 80 percent of the copper On February 24, 1943, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft
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23:15, 07 May 2020 The future should be based on the facts of history and justice for the victims of totalitarian regimes, the statement says. Manipulating the historical events that led to World War 2 and to the division of Europe in its aftermath is a “regrettable effort to falsify history”, says a joint statement by the U. S. Secretary
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Berlin Mayor Michael Muller invited ambassadors of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus to commemorative event on occasion of end of World War II on May 2 The Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnik refused to participate in commemorative events in Berlin with representatives of Russia on the occasion of the end of World War II in Berlin on May 2.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin at Victory Day commemorations in Moscow in 2019.
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Russia on Thursday launched a probe into three World War II-era atrocities in areas occupied by Nazi forces. The investigation was opened following findings in historical archives about killings in several locations in southern Russia’s Rostov region, including Zmiyovskaya Balka, a village where “no less than 27,000 people” were shot by firing squad. The massacres in August 1942 were perpetrated
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March 25, 2020 07:36 GMT UPDATED March 25, 2020 08:54 GMT A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the Kurile Islands on March 24, causing a small tsunami and prompting a tsunami alert on the western coast of the United States and Canada and as far away as Hawaii. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck at 10:49 p.m. 219 kilometers
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A Russian state-run television channel is airing the names of the nearly 13 million Soviet soldiers killed in World War II in the weeks leading up to the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. The project is a collaboration between Russia’s Defense Ministry and Memory of the People, an internet database that documents the conflict that Russia
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