US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has marked this week’s WWII anniversary by issuing a strongly-worded statement that appears to target many of Russia’s most cherished myths relating to the conflict. The hard-hitting joint statement on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War was issued by the US Secretary of State together with the foreign ministers of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, all nations that found themselves under Kremlin control for decades following the war. The statement is highly critical of the post-war Soviet occupation of Central and Eastern Europe, and also accuses the current Russian regime of attempting to falsify history in order to whitewash Moscow’s role in both the outbreak and aftermath of WWII.
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A Russian Tupolev TU-160 supersonic strategic bomber and Tupolev TU-22M3 Backfire strategic bombers fly over Moscow's Kremlin Borovitskaya tower during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 7, 2019.
