Dear CCI Friends,
On June 18, 2020, Vladimir Putin released to the world Russia’s archival understanding of the horrendous war years, the final months and the near total devastation of the Soviet Union due to World War II. Forgive me for being late getting this email to you. I have been researching these years daily on the Internet (more in a second CCI letter).
On May 8, 2020, at multiple sites in England, France, Germany, Scotland and Washington, DC, the primary allied countries that fought together in WWII held ceremonies in celebration of VE Day, the end of WWII in Europe. Russia was not invited.
Could this be why President Putin put together his definitive statement of WWII? It is Russia’s record of the sequence of war events … in addition to the fact that the USSR was the country that was critical to stopping Hitler’s war machine. I think no one denies the latter. Whether Putin has all of the history and surrounding happenings correct, I doubt; and neither may any of the other countries. All see these horrifying events from their own perspectives.