Irina Scherbakova: Russia’s historical past is being fully reinterpreted | EUROtoday

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“Putin’s Russia is about total control over the past”

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Young prisoners in the Molotovsk (Severodvinsk) camp in 1944.

Young prisoners within the Molotovsk (Severodvinsk) camp in 1944.dpa

Russia is rewriting its historical past and criminalizing the reminiscence of Soviet crimes. Irina Scherbakova, co-founder of Memorial, explains why the assault on the nation’s reminiscence is so radical.

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