the sponsored by historical associations run by senior officials close to the president, including bethel opposite the kremlin. it was commissioned by the russian military historical society. when mikhail medical define specific director by did the or cisco army, sorry, the victory of his soviet army in the 2nd world war has a crucial role in how russian self identified we have to hold on to some constance such as our victories during the patriotic laura 4212, the 1st world war, or the great patriotic, were these allow us to feel self sufficient in this world we can say to other nations, we gave you freedom where we live in a world that was created by the soviet union in 1945 a youth fulls though fisher, they fought for governmental missing from that narrative, inconvenient periods of history, like august 1939. when joseph stalin and out of hitler agreed to a non aggression pat, arguably paving the way for world war that started one week later. over time, stollins legacy, once so discredited, has been rehabilitated in 2019 the survey by the nevada center on 70 percent of russia thought he had played a positive role in russian history. a lot of city, margareta, people are