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Titolo: V. Putin: Nothing wrong with Soviet Union's pact with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/11213255/Vladimir-Putin-says-there-was-nothing-wrong-with-Soviet-Unions-pact-with-Adolf-Hitlers-Nazi-Germany.html
 
 
Vladimir Putin says there was nothing wrong with Soviet Union's pact 
with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany
 
Russian president says he sees nothing wrong with treaty with Nazi 
Germany that led to the carve-up of Poland - and blames Britain for 
destroying any chance of an anti-fascist front
 
By Tom Parfitt, Moscow1:16PM GMT 06 Nov 2014
 
Vladimir Putin has said there was nothing bad about the Nazi-Soviet 
Pact, the non-aggression treaty which led to the carve-up of Poland at 
the outset of the Second World War, suggesting Britain and France were 
to blame for Adolf Hitler's march into Europe.
 
The Russian president made the comments at a meeting with young 
historians in Moscow, during which he urged them to examine the lead-up 
to the war, among other subjects.
 
The comments are likely to cause dismay in eastern Europe, amid wider 
debate in Russia about growing attempts to use history as a means of 
shoring up Mr Putin's rule.
 
Mr Putin said that Western historians today try to "hush up" the 1938 
Munich Agreement, in which France and Britain â   led by Neville 
Chamberlain, the prime minister â   appeased Adolf Hitler by acquiescing 
to his occupation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
 
"Chamberlain came, waved a piece of paper and said, 'I've brought you 
peace' when he returned to London after the talks," Mr Putin, who is a 
keen amateur historian, said on Wednesday, according to a Kremlin 
transcript.
 
"To which Churchill, I think, said somewhere to a small group of people, 
'That's it, now war is inevitable'. Because compromise with an aggressor 
in the form of Hitlerite Germany was clearly leading to a large-scale 
future military conflict, and some people understood that."
Mr Putin appeared to think Moscow's own agreement with Hitler â   the 
1939 Nazi-Soviet or Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact â   was fine, however.
 
"Serious research must show that those were the foreign policy methods 
then," he said, adding: "The Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty 
with Germany. People say: 'Ach, that's bad.' But what's bad about that 
if the Soviet Union didn't want to fight, what's bad about it?"
 
Secret protocols of the pact in which the Nazis and the Communists 
agreed to divide up Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and 
Poland into spheres of influence were officially denied by the Kremlin 
until 1989.
More than 20,000 arrested and captured Poles were executed by the Soviet 
secret police in the Katyn massacre in 1940. The Nazis began an 
extermination campaign that would eventually lead to the deaths of three 
million Jews in Poland alone.
 
Mr Putin appeared to imply the secret protocols continued to be a matter 
of dispute today, saying, "people still argue about the 
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and accuse the Soviet Union of dividing up Poland".
In 2009, the Russian leader condemned the Nazi-Soviet pact as "immoral" 
but said France and the UK had destroyed any chance for an anti-fascist 
front with the Munich Agreement.
 
Critics say Mr Putin and his administration are increasingly mobilising 
historical events as a means of bolstering his authoritarian rule.
On Tuesday, which was the National Unity public holiday, the Russian 
leader visited a new multimedia exhibition in Moscow dedicated to the 
medieval Rurik dynasty.
 
The exhibition was at pains to draw parallels between the country's 
turbulent past and its current confrontation with the West over the 
Ukraine crisis.
 
A section on Ivan the Terrible and the 16th century Livonian War 
described "the West's first anti-Russian information campaign".
"The Europeans tried to portray Russia as a country of cruel and 
aggressive barbarians," said state television. "In the end, not strong 
enough to influence our independent international policies, they were 
obliged to introduce a raft of economic sanctions against us, as they 
would be called now."
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