With the Second World War a linchpin of Russia’s national identity, Putin has sought to use its memory in a bid to legitimize the invasion; historians call it a cynical distortion
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Vladimir Putin on Friday again painted his enemies in Ukraine as “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.
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Vladimir Putin on Friday again painted his enemies in Ukraine as neo-Nazis, even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.