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May 12, 2009
Outlawed Disagreement
By Sergei Balashov
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Governments and ideologies change, but the battles and victories of the Great Patriotic War remain dear to the Russian heart—so dear that debating the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Adolf Hitler or condemning the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe may soon be considered a crime. A new law proposed by Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu will equate such statements to rehabilitating Nazism, which will in turn further complicate Russia’s relations with its pro-Western neighbors and interfere with the work of World War II researchers in Russia.

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