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How a KGB man became the fascist’s friend

3 May 2017

1:15 PM

3 May 2017

1:15 PM

Since ‘fake-news’ is all the rage these days it seems only appropriate that there’s a strange law on the books of the Russian Federation that criminalises discussions of the Second World War that harms the Russian image. Apparently, ultra-nationalist supporters of Vladimir Putin take exception to historians or journalists reminding Russian citizens that the ‘Great Patriotic War’ against Nazism actually began with a joint invasion of Poland by Hitler’s Germany and its ally, Stalin’s Soviet Union.

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