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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 28 > Putin’s Russia keeps a chokehold on its history

Putin’s Russia keeps a chokehold on its history

Soviet triumphs are glorified while less savory aspects are pushed aside

By Clifford J. Levy / The Bulletin
November 28, 2008

TOMSK, Russia — For years, the earth in this Siberian city had been giving up clues: a scrap of clothing, a fragment of bone, a skull with a bullet hole.

And so a historian named Boris Trenin made a plea to officials. Would they let him examine secret archives to confirm that there was....

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