Putin in call to ‘rescue’ Stalin

President Vladimir Putin has raised the prospect of a return to Soviet-style academic censorship after he accused the West of plotting to distort Russian history in an attempt to crush patriotic sentiment in schools. The Russian leader claimed that a generation of schoolchildren was learning a version of their past that had been deliberately skewed by historians in the pay of the West.

Putin is, what Putin is, so this should be no surprise. His natural instinct is to crack down

He was the last head of the KGB of the Soviet Union. One cannot have reached that post by being “Mr. Nice Guy”, rather, a resume as a Sopranos enforcer would be more likely.