Vladimir Putin warned: "We are going to close the dirty mouths" of those who, abroad, "Try to rewrite history", launched the head of the Kremlin on January 18. During a meeting in Saint Petersburg with patriotic organizations, he had promised to bring "Accurate and fundamental information". Six months later, the president publishes a long column to accuse the West of "Revisionism" anti-russian on the second world war, "Dangerous thing" according to him because being able to destabilize "The principles of peaceful development" of the world.
In this rare text, published not in Russian media but in the American conservative journal The National Interest, Vladimir Putin talks about the invasion and integration of the Baltic states into the USSR after the war. Saying to rely on historical documents, he assures that this annexation was "Implemented on a contractual basis, with the consent of the elected authorities and in accordance with international and state law of the time". Affirmations that will further tend relations with the three Baltic countries. In a joint statement on May 7, the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian heads of state accused Moscow of "Falsify history" and asked "Truth and justice" on the responsibility of the USSR in the outbreak of war.
"Secret Protocols"
To defend Moscow’s role, Vladimir Putin retreats from the agreements negotiated with Nazi Germany before the war. He suspects the Europeans of having concluded "Secret protocols" with Adolf Hitler on the sidelines of the Munich Agreements, signed on September 30, 1938 with Germany by France and the United Kingdom, in the hope of avoiding war by sealing the death of independent Czechoslovakia. He evokes archives that Paris and London would refuse to declassify to establish the truth. The head of the Kremlin also claims that the USSR was "Practically the last among European countries" to sign a pact with Hitler and assures that Moscow did not initially plan to invade its neighbors.
The head of the Kremlin goes so far as to defend the treaty of non-aggression signed by the Soviet Union and the German Reich, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 23, 1939 in which Moscow and Berlin share Eastern Europe, especially Poland. For the head of the Kremlin, who says he relies on archival documents, Warsaw is no longer a victim but becomes guilty. "The fault of the tragedy rests entirely on the Polish authorities", wrote the president, accusing Warsaw of complicity with Hitler in the months before the invasion.
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