Rain on Putin's Parade
Marion Smith - National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418026/rain-putins-parade-marion-smithBehind his push to make May 9 a glorious national holiday is an effort to whitewash atrocities of the Soviet era ... Russian president Vladimir Putin's historic spectacle will be the latest in a long line of cynical and systematic attempts by the Kremlin to minimize the horrors of Soviet Communism - and the decades of occupation it imposed on millions of human beings throughout Europe and Eurasia ... Putin's false narrative depends on suppressing historical truths ... So intent is Putin on exploiting an imagined past that last year he made it a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison, to "distort" Russia's role in World War II ... It might be a felony to report, as acclaimed historian Ian Kershaw has done, that Soviet soldiers raped approximately one of every five women living in eastern Germany.
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