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'Don't lie about Russia's war history'

RUSSIAN president Dmitry Medvedev has formed a commission to protect Moscow's version of Second World War history from "falsifications", amid growing concern over attempts to downplay or criticise the country's war record.

A presidential decree posted on the Kremlin's website said "the commission will engage in the compilation and analysis of information on the falsification of historical facts and events, directed at lowering the international prestige of the Russian Federation".

It comes days after the president warned against anybody questioning Russian history and its wartime sacrifice – millions of Soviet civilians and soldiers died in years of bloody fighting and German occupation .


Read entire article at Scotsman