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Stalin, Putin and the Falsification of History – Areo
“There is an old Soviet saying: Russia is a country with a certain future; it is only the past that is unpredictable. In post-Stalinist Russia, the battle over history continues. Vladimir Putin has recently been adopting some of the same tactics as Stalin,” argues Andy Owen for Areo Magazine.
Patriotism corrupts history.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1817) Long before the latest iteration of cancel culture, there was a punishment known as damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of a person’s memory). First…View Post
