Georgette Mosbacher’s history lesson

Stalin was a complete idiot to trust Hitler, but went on supplying Germany with oil and various other scarce goods until the day before Germany invaded Russia in June 1941. It’s not a story that reflects well on Russia, so it’s no wonder that Putin keeps trying to change the narrative.

The row started when Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, was asked about the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 during his annual press conference on Dec. 19, 2019, and gave a deliberately evasive answer.Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin/Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 2, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—The row started when Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, was asked about the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 during his annual press conference on Dec. 19, and gave a deliberately evasive answer. Or maybe it started in September, when the European Union’s Parliament passed a resolution ...

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