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Article: Putin's struggles with Soviet history.
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- Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2009
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Byline: Alexander Etkind Special to Gulf News
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's recent article for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza - written to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland - expresses his determination to make twentieth-century European history a major part of the Russian government's business. That article reflects the deep, unresolved problems of Putin's era: the inability to distinguish between the Soviet past and the Russian present; an unscrupulous mix of political conservatism and historical revisionism; and indifference, bordering on incomprehension, with regard to the key values of democracy.
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