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02/27/2009: "Russian minister wants to make it a crime to deny the Russians won WW2"

Sergey Shoigu, the head of Russia's EMERCOM, put forward a suggestion to pass the law that would stipulate criminal responsibility for rejecting USSR's victory in the Great Patriotic War, Itar-Tass news agency reports.

"I believe that our parliament needs to pass the law that would stipulate criminal responsibility for those denying the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War," Shoigu said.

The minister stressed out that there was a number of countries on the post-Soviet space that reject both the results of the Great Patriotic War and the deeds of the Soviet nation in it. The law, the official added, would allow to protect Russia's history.

[ This seems heavy handed, but it isn't when compared with Europe's Holocaust denial laws! ]

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/26-02-2009/107154-ussr_victory_world_war-0

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on Saturday, February 28th, Cesare said

Abundant american material aid to the soviet union in the form of food, weapons, tanks, cash, etc., was the main cause of their 'victory'. In fact without it, both the UK and the USSR would of been defeated by Nazism.