“The Soviet Union and the Red Army, whoever tries to prove the opposite today, have made the main and decisive contribution to the defeat of Nazism,” Putin writes.
As the head of state emphasizes, "we are fighting for a genuine, unadorned and whitewashed truth about this war."
Earlier on the website of The National Interest, an article by Vladimir Putin on World War II was published.
In it, he also noted that the summit of the leaders of the UN nuclear five will help to find answers to modern challenges and threats.
In addition, the president called on other countries to speed up the process of declassifying archives and publishing previously unknown documents that relate to the pre-war and post-war periods.