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Source: Telegraph
Vladimir Putin has said there was nothing bad about the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the non-aggression treaty which led to the carve-up of Poland at the outset of the Second World War, suggesting Britain and France were to blame for Adolf Hitler's march into Europe.
The Russian president made the comments at a meeting with young historians in Moscow, during which he urged them to examine the lead-up to the war, among other subjects.
The comments are likely to cause dismay in eastern Europe, amid wider debate in Russia about growing attempts to use history as a means of shoring up Mr Putin's rule.
Mr Putin said that Western historians today try to "hush up" the 1938 Munich Agreement, in which France and Britain led by Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister appeased Adolf Hitler by acquiescing to his occupation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
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