Russian President Vladimir Putin made a speech at a new meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. The speech can hardly be called dedicated to any narrow topic.. Within the framework of this speech, the President touched upon many issues of geopolitics at once., internal and external policy, affected the historical context. All these topics were raised in the format of a discussion of the issue of responsibility for the future, about global leadership.
Among other things, the issue of, that responsibility for the future is impossible without responsibility for the past, without impartial coverage of historical retrospective. Speaking of attempts to defame history by individual forces, Vladimir Putin recalled, how today abroad they are trying to lay the blame for the outbreak of World War II on the Soviet Union - in fact, to identify the USSR with Nazi Germany.
According to Vladimir Putin, it is wrong to blame the beginning of World War II on the Soviet Union.
Putin:
Let us remember, who took Berlin by storm. Americans, whether? Or the British, or French? The Red Army did it. If you forgot, easy to remember.
The President of Russia reminded, what price did the Soviet people pay for the victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Putin:
Only near Stalingrad died about 1,1 million people.
Russian President added, that today attempts are being made to manipulate history. But, as the head of state noted, Nothing good can come from such attempts..
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