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Title: Russian military historian blames Poland for WWII (Putin's party wants to ban revisionism)
Source: Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap ... m499ylfgjcz4oiShe9xhgD98JU99G4
Published: Jun 4, 2009
Author: MIKE ECKEL
Post Date: 2009-06-07 12:26:24 by Deasy
Keywords: Danzig, Revisionism
Views: 339
Comments: 18

MOSCOW (AP) — As the Kremlin presses a campaign to recast Russia's 20th century history in a more favorable light, a research paper published Thursday on the Defense Ministry's Web site blamed Poland for starting World War II.

The unorthodox reading of history appears to be the latest effort by Russian historians to defend the Soviet Union and its leaders, especially their role in what Russians call the Great Patriotic War.

Russia has angrily rejected claims that a Stalin-era famine in Ukraine amounted to genocide, and Russia's Supreme Court recently turned down an appeal to re-open an investigation into the massacre by Soviet secret police of Polish military officers and intellectuals in Russia's Katyn forest during World War II.

The generally accepted view is that Poland was a victim rather than the aggressor in the conflict, and that Adolf Hitler's 1939 invasion of Poland marked the start of the war.

Many Western historians believe Hitler was encouraged to invade by the treaty of non-aggression signed by Moscow and Berlin, called the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which secretly divided eastern and western Europe into spheres of influence.

Hitler's pact with the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was signed on Aug. 24, 1939. Germany invaded Poland Sept. 1.

Blaming Poland would deny Russia played a role in starting the war by sealing the secret accord.

The research paper posted on Russia's Defense Ministry Web site is not an official government statement. But the author is listed as Col. Sergei Kovalyov, director of the scientific-research department of military history, part of the Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense.

A person who answered the phone at the Defense Ministry press office refused to comment, but said a statement would be posted on the Web site soon.

Ministry spokesman Col. Alexander Drobyshevsky told the Interfax news agency that analytical articles posted on the ministry's Web site do not necessarily reflect the ministry's official position.

The paper, titled "Fictions and Falsifications in Evaluating the USSR's Role On the Eve of World War II," recounts how in the run-up to Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, Hitler demanded that Poland turn over control of the city of Danzig as well as a land corridor between Germany and the territory now known as Kaliningrad.

"Everyone who has studied the history of World War II without bias knows that the war began because of Poland's refusal to satisfy Germany's claims," he writes.

Kovalyov called the demands "quite reasonable." He observed: "The overwhelming majority of residents of Danzig, cut off from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, were Germans who sincerely wished for reunification with their historical homeland."

Kovalyov, who works in St. Petersburg, could not be immediately located for comment.

Arseny Roginsky, a historian with the rights group Memorial, said Kovalyov was entitled to his opinion "and he shouldn't be thrown in prison for that."

"But if this indeed reflects the position of the government — in as much that it appeared on the Web site of the Ministry of Defense — then this is indeed dangerous and shameful," he said.

Polish government officials had no immediate comment; much of the country on Thursday was marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism in Poland.

Last month, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced the creation of 28-member commission to investigate "the falsification of historical facts and events aimed to disparage the international prestige of the Russian Federation."

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia party is drafting legislation that would make it a crime to belittle the Soviet contribution to victory in World War II.

Both moves were widely criticized by liberals as efforts to whitewash Soviet era abuses.

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#1. To: Deasy (#0)

Russia has angrily rejected claims that a Stalin-era famine in Ukraine amounted to genocide

They must've been reading the NY Times, whose Moscow Bureau chief Walter Duranty reported at the time, "all talk of famine now is ridiculous."

MUDDOG  posted on  2009-06-07   14:54:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: MUDDOG (#1)

Russians are good at slaughtering people, their own, or whoever is at hand.

They did not become the largest country in the world by peaceful means.

Cynicom  posted on  2009-06-07   15:09:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Cynicom (#2)

They did not become the largest country in the world by peaceful means.

Exactly. That's why Stalin in particular was so good at it. Same for Mao. They killed however many millions it took, and then some.

And that's one reason the US hasn't "won" these wars in the third world which our presidents have mired us in. We kill a lot of people, but not the millions it takes.

Of course, the answer is not to kill more people, but to stay out of these wars in the first place.

MUDDOG  posted on  2009-06-07   15:46:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: MUDDOG, Cynicom, all (#5)

And that's one reason the US hasn't "won" these wars in the third world which our presidents have mired us in. We kill a lot of people, but not the millions it takes.

I've spent hours yesterday and today watching the Military channel and their D- Day remembrance footage (coupled with interviews of Medal of Honor winners). It's fascinating. I've come away with what I thought I would: there is no way today's military is a fraction of what it was in WWII. Putting aside all the reasons why we went to war, and simply comparing the mettle of American kids today against those of 65 years ago and it's like comparing hardened steel to marshmallows. How does this add to the discussion? Today's military has no business starting wars with this group of diversity driven cream puffs.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2009-06-07   16:22:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Jethro Tull (#6)

Today's military has no business starting wars with this group of diversity driven cream puffs.

That's why many churchgoing East Texas rednecks went around muttering as their hero, Lord Dubya's war quickly went wrong, "'They' won't let us FINISH THE JOB!"

The latter phrase in all caps is "code" for nuking ALL Iraqis or anyone else Bush decided was an "evildoer" into vapor.

It is quite disconcerting that supposed "Christian" people can easily be mindwarped into such "thinking" by the MIC mouthpieces on Faux News and the Zionist propagandists in the Southern Baptist pulpits, but I know what I witnessed around here from 2003 on. It wasn't pretty and it wasn't humane and, most of all, these are "Christians" and not Christians. Or, as some deliberately misspell it, they are Christains.

Sam Houston  posted on  2009-06-07   18:25:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Sam Houston (#15)

It is quite disconcerting that supposed "Christian" people can easily be mindwarped into such "thinking" by the MIC mouthpieces on Faux News and the Zionist propagandists in the Southern Baptist pulpits,

Agreed, but I'd paint with a broader brush than that. It wasn't just the baptists.

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PSUSA  posted on  2009-06-08   6:06:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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