The president highlighted the Soviet Union’s role in defeating the Nazis.
Blaming Stalin for starting World War II is “the height of cynicism,” Russian President Vladimir Putin has said amid renewed discussion over the Soviet Union’s role in the conflict.
“To say that Stalin unleashed the war is the height of cynicism,” Putin said at an international conference in southern Russia on Thursday.
“It’s as if the Soviet Union attacked Germany at 4 a.m. on June 22 [1941] and not vice versa,” he told the Valdai Discussion Club.
Russia and former satellites disagree over Stalin’s role in 1939, when he clinched the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany that paved the way for the invasion of Poland and the war. The commemoration of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany is one of the most celebrated holidays in Russia.
Tensions came to a head last month when Russia’s Foreign Ministry defended the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, tweeting that “hundreds of thousands of lives were saved” because of it.
Highlighting the Soviet Union’s role in defeating the Nazis, Putin warned that “efforts to mix it all up, conceal and distort this carries the threat that people will no longer fear that these tragedies could recur.”
Putin also acknowledged that the Soviet dictator’s purges marked a “dark page” in Russian and post-Soviet history.
Putin defended the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, calling it Moscow’s response to being isolated and having its peace efforts snubbed by Western nations. While serving as prime minister in 2009, however, he denounced it as “collusion to solve one’s problems at others’ expense.”
A secret protocol to the 1939 non-aggression treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided the territories of Poland, Romania, the Baltic nations and Finland into “spheres of influence,” paving way for the German invasion of Poland.
(c) The Moscow Times
“It’s as if the Soviet Union attacked Germany at 4 a.m. on June 22 [1941] and not vice versa,”
The Soviet Union invaded Poland, two weeks after Hitler invaded. The USSR also annexed parts of Finland and as a result got booted out of the League of Nations. That is history, and not the Muscovy version of it.
Hitler would never have invaded Poland if he hadn’t guaranties from Moscow they will not attack Germany because of it. Stalin made the apocalypse possible. It’s a fact.
Facts and Muscovy have never met.
What links?
“Putin defended the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, calling it Moscow’s response to being isolated and having its peace efforts snubbed by Western nations.”
Only LiliPutin could call that “peace efforts.” The man is just a KGB zit and a blatant waste of good oxygen. It will be a worldwide holiday when he is snuffed out. Not even his daughters will miss him.
Yeah always the victim. Perhaps if Putin didn’t send his military invading other countries, Muscovy wouldn’t be isolated, but it’s all the fault of the West.
It’s mafia tactics, they blame the victim for not capitulating and therefore it is their fault that the mafia have to kill them. It was Poland’s fault that they were invaded because they did not go along with German and Russian fascism.
Pee Wee Pootie lifting the carpet and sweeping the shit under it again. Eventually the pile will get big enough for them to trip over.
Good analogy Grumpy
Vladolf misses wearing his uniform.
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Specially made for short asses. LMAO
LMFAO!
Did you say short ass? 😉
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It’s young Lavrov. LMAO
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Too good-looking 🙂
This is cute, the other is not.