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

Soviet historical past :

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

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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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