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Did Putin Get the Origins of World War II Right?
Several experts examine and assess the validity of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s depiction of the diplomacy in the 1930s leading up to the second world war.
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the start of World War II, Russian president Vladimir Putin published a major article in The National Interest in which he copiously cited archival research to reexamine the…
- Jacob Heilbrunn
- The National Interest
The article has prompted considerable debate over its interpretations of history and its implications for current affairs.
How strong is Putin’s historical case?
And what are the…