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Politico (20 May 2025)

 Jamie Dettmer

Russia is ready to fight a forever war. Just ask Vladimir Putin’s favorite pseudo-historian.

Vladimir Medinsky served as the Kremlin chief’s arch-patriotic culture minister from 2012 to 2020, and he oversaw the redrafting of a skewed history curriculum to be taught to Russia’s schoolchildren. An advocate of putting up statues of Josef Stalin, he’s been a leading persecutor of gulag historians and chroniclers.

Russia is ready to fight a forever war. Just ask Vladimir Putin’s favorite pseudo-historian.

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