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How Russia Distorts the Past

Memory politics shape Putin’s influence at home and abroad.

A poster of a soldier holding up a rifle. September 7, 2025, 10:00 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

“In Russia, monuments to people responsible for mass killings and other Soviet-era crimes are springing up like mushrooms after an autumn rain,” Jaroslaw Kuisz recently wrote .

As statues commemorating figures from Joseph Stalin to the founder of the Bolshevik secret police are erected across the country, many Russians have responded with little more than a shr

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