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Putin: We have to firmly withstand attempts to falsify history

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Putin: We have to firmly withstand attempts to falsify history


25.04.2018

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Russia has to firmly oppose all attempts to falsify historical facts, Vladimir Putin stated in his message to the participants and guests of the international forum The Great Victory Attained through Unity: Heroism of Guerillas and Underground Resistance in the Great Patriotic War. The forum opened today in Bryansk.

"It is our duty to safeguard the truth about the heroes and firmly repel all attempts at falsifying the facts of history,” says the message. The Head of State underlined that the memory about WW2 Victory and heroic deeds of our grandfathers and grand-grandfathers is sacred. They have defended the freedom and independence of the Motherland, saved the world from Fascist plague. Putin said that this memory will always serve as a “basis for firm partnership and neighborliness of the peoples and countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.”

The Meetings held on the eve of Victory Day have become tradition. Vladimir Putin named them an important event in the life of the CIS countries citizens. They bring together politics, recognized scientists, historians, public figures, veterans, representatives of creative and youth organizations. Putin marked that their mission is “to maintain a continued timeline and teach the younger generation to be considerate in their attitude to the ever-lasting spiritual and moral values, the heroic pages of the common history of our peoples, including the partizan and underground resistance movement, who bravely fought against the enemy during the Great Patriotic War.”

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