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Russia Deports Polish Historian After Stalinist Purge Lecture
« on: November 27, 2017, 09:54:42 am »
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Russia Deports Polish Historian After Stalinist Purge Lecture

A Polish historian has reportedly been deported from Russia, a day after giving a lecture on the fate of Polish citizens during the Stalinist purges of the late 1930s.

Moscow has previously accused Warsaw of unleashing a “war” against Soviet monuments in Poland, where the Soviet role in World War II is viewed with ambiguity or hostility. The official narrative in Russia is that the Red Army liberated Poland from Nazi occupation.

Dr. Henryk Glebocki was studying archival materials on Polish-Russian relations before Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) detained and deported him Friday, according to Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).

Read more at: https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russia-deports-polish-historian-after-stalinist-purge-lecture-59699