War in the Middle East may be roiling markets and testing global stability, but one priority endures for Vladimir Putin’s Russia: rewriting history.
Last week, the state-backed Russian Military-Historical Society unveiled a new exhibit in western Smolensk region entitled “10 Centuries of Polish Russophobia.”
The exhibit, a news release said, focused on “the hatred of the Polish state elite at various periods of history toward Russia and the Russian people, and how this hatred manifested itself in concrete actions. Specifically, in the seizure of Russian territory and the extermination of the Russian, Belarusian, and Little Russian peoples.”
Leave aside the nationalistic…