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Soviet symbolism removed from 'City-Hero' obelisk in Kyiv (newsukraine.rbc.ua)

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[–] Epilektoi_Hoplitai@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

"Great Patriotic War" is the fine conceit of historical revisionism that lets the Russians neatly overlook the unpleasant little detail that WW II started with the Soviets fighting as cobelligerents with Nazi Germany to invade Poland.