MOSCOW -- The longtime director of the Russian State Archive has been removed from his post less than a year after he exposed a popular Soviet World War II legend to be “fiction” and railed against Soviet “myths” in front of top officials.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Russian archive chief out after debunking Soviet World War II legend
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (C) walks near WWII veterans at a wreath-laying ceremony not far from Moscow in Dubosekovo on May 7, 2010 during a visit to a memorial to soldiers of commander Panfilov that died here in defence of Moscow during WWII. Medvedev slammed the Soviet Union as a totalitarian regime that suppressed rights, in the most damning assessment of the USSR by a Russian leader in recent years. In an interview with the Izvestia newspaper published two days before Russia marks the 65th anniversary of victory in World War II, Medvedev added that the crimes of wartime dictator Joseph Stalin can never be forgiven.
