Kadyrov’s willingness to challenge Moscow’s historical narratives, coupled with the possible rewriting of Russian colonial history, holds out promise for the historical rehabilitation of Chechens. Kadyrov’s evolving stance signals a possible shift in the relationship between Chechnya & Moscow.
On orders from Russia’s Culture Ministry, Poland’s flag has disappeared from the Katyn war cemetery outside Smolensk. “There can be no flags of Poland at Russian memorials! Esp after openly anti-Russian statements by Polish politicians,” explained Smolensk Mayor Andrey Borisov.
9/3 Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry complained to the Russian embassy in Sofia about its exhibition celebrating “75 years of liberation from Nazism”, saying that WWII was followed by half a century of Soviet-backed repression./“We advise the Russian embassy not to take a stance in support of(
11/6 Sandarmokh the Russian Military History Society/ Putin issued a decree in 2012 reviving it with a stated mission to “promote the study of Russian military history and counteract attempts to distort it,” as well as to “raise the prestige of military service, and education of patriotism.”
"No one is likely to dig that deep there in the winter. So according to them, the executions were in the summer; but then why were these people wearing overcoats and felt boots? In addition, the poses and the depth at which the bodies were found were typical for Sandarmokh victims.
Petropavlovsk State University. However,they speculated that their remains would be found near Medvezhegorsk, where a POW camp was located,some12km away from Sandarmokh/But intheend,the authorities pushedPetropavlovskUniversity aside & the Russian Military-Historical Society took over the matter/
Sandarmokh was originally identified&studied in1997 by prominent historian Yury Dmitriyev, who heads the Karelia branch of the Memorial/ The hypothesis that the bodies of executed Soviet prisoners of war could be in the area was first put forward by Yury Kilin & Sergei Verigin, historians at(
9/4 Sandarmokh /Locals “suspect the Military-Historical Society's real intention is to rewrite the history of the site to cover up Stalin's crimes against his own people and to turn the location into another shrine to the achievements and sufferings of the Soviet Union during World War II.”/
9/13The article, which was published at the beginning of the month〜worldwide, including Haaretz, was about a Ukrainian city commemorating the 75th anniversary of the destruction of its Jewish community. It included the claim that "in June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union, its former ally."
11/22 Russian Zvezda TV said that Czechoslovakia should be grateful for 1968 invasion as it brought piece for some 20 years. The material was protested by Czech MFA too. It was released during 🇨🇿 Pres Zeman's meeting with Putin and week after 🇸🇰Head of Parl gave a speech in Duma.
“The claim that it was the Soviet army that rescued Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the Holocaust is either deep ignorance of history or an attempt at provocation, head of state President Roumen Radev said on November 4.”