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 and about the ""That other editor has indicated that he or she believes ""English-language material"" as a whole to be biased"" This belief is in the wikipedia guideline now. Please embrace it. British long lasting tradition to polish history in their favor made it's way into Russian anecdotes and folklore. the phrases i've cited ""British historians are so British"", ""British documentaries are so British"" and so on, are just Russian proverbs. Here is a better example of the hypocrisy of British historians: When do you think WW2 started? With invasion of Poland, right? No! This is a mere British view of it. Poland was not the first county invaded by Hitler. The warfare started when Britain and France had sold Czechoslovakia to Hitler (read up on Munich Agreements, preferably not in wikipedia ;) ) with the invasion of Czechoslovakia. To deal with the shameful fact, the historians had just polished it out of the WW2 history. And now British public believes that the WW2 started at 1 Sep 1939. Hop! Britain is the knight in shining armour again! ... in the eyes of the British public at least. I know for a person with particular personality traits this might be hard to accept. But British historians are hardly a model of objectivity, and, in fact, truth 84.52.101.196  "