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Putin rewrites history and invents a glorious past to justify his war

2022-05-08T16:58:34.213Z


DECRYPTION – The head of the Kremlin broke with the 1990s, when an inventory of the crimes of communism had begun.


Last April 10, in the middle of the war in Ukraine, suddenly appeared on the road to Smolensk, in Russia, two columns of dozens of Kamaz trucks and diggers, which, Russian flags fluttering in the wind, rushed aggressively towards the monument of Katyn.

The disturbing "Z" signs, displayed on the vehicles, displayed on all the equipment of the Russian army in Ukraine, seemed to announce a form of punitive operation.

Sanctioned behind the scenes by the authorities, it appeared to target the memorial erected in memory of the 22,000 victims of the famous massacre of Polish officers, policemen and intellectuals, who were executed with a bullet in the back of the neck by the Soviet NKVD special services, in 1940, in a forest in Katyn, at the height of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

arrived at the scene,

two of the diggers stopped in a threatening posture, recalling the indecent brutality of the behavior of the Russian soldiers on Ukrainian soil.

As if they were going to crush...

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Source: lefigaro

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