Khodarkovsky Op Ed

Michael Khodarkovsky, Putin’s Disunited Nation 19 May 2015, The New York Times

Putin and the World War II Victory Celebrations.

Masha Gessen, Putin’s Victory Day, Not My Grandmother’s, has some interesting reflections on the evolution of Russia's World War II holiday.  Plus, this is a great line: Putin, a this year's event, "was surrounded instead by friends from North Korea, Venezuela, China, Zimbabwe, and a handful of other countries."

точно так!

Worth the read.  Masha Gessen, Is It 1937 Yet? (5 May 2015, The New York Times)

Ukraine v Russia Now Playing Out in History Books

Andrew Kramer, Ukraine Separatists Rewrite History of 1930s Famine. Seems to be a lot of this going on in Russia and now in the Russian-supported war in Ukraine.