Jun 04 2009

Physician, heal thyself!

Published by DStone at 9:36 am under Contemporary, Eastern Europe, Great Patriotic War, Historiography

I think we may have a candidate for the Truth Commission’s first target: a Russian military officer who argues that Poland’s responsible for World War II.

I’m headed to the MoD website to see if I can find it for myself. My thanks to the person who brought this to my attention.

UPDATE: here’s the Russian-language text of the Defense Ministry’s statement disavowing the official status of the argument.

UPDATE: the article in question by S. N. Kovalyov seems to have been taken down from its original page (subtly titled “History: Against Lies and Falsification), but I was able to grab a copy of the text and will post it soon.

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2 Responses to “Physician, heal thyself!”

  1. # THE RUSSIAN FRONT » Kovalyov, Poland, Molotov-Ribbentrop, and the Perils of History-Written-to-Orderon 04 Jun 2009 at 12:48 pm

    [...] S. N. Kovalyov’s essay on the origins of World War II (mentioned here and with Russian text available through here )is an excellent example of the pitfalls in attempting [...]

  2. # THE RUSSIAN FRONT » History in the passive voiceon 23 Jun 2009 at 12:41 pm

    [...] can name one example of history falsified in the name of scoring political points: S. N. Kovalyov’s article on Poland’s responsibility for World War II. Sadly, he works for the Russian [...]

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