The Soviet role in instigating WWII goes back much further. Hitler’s NSDAP couldn’t have come to power without Stalin directing the communist party of Germany to not ally itself with the German social democrats. The communists started to call the social democrats “social fascists”, no alliance came to pass, Hitler became chancellor and the rest is history.

Europe correcting the history of WWII to a certain degree is actually good for Russia. It will force Russia to confront its past more honestly and ultimately throw off the Stalinist propaganda that still dominates the Russian mindset. Of course there was a Soviet role in instigating WWII, but the Soviets only stood for themselves and their foreign backers, not the Russian people. The Soviet takeover itself had been funded by foreign interests that felt threatened by Russian prosperity and geopolitical competition under tzarist rule. Britain already had had a Russian tzar murdered in a palace conspiracy during the time of Napoleon because he was making an alliance with Napoleon to invade India. Much of the same geopolitical thinking was at play during the Bolshevik revolution and has been ever since to this very day. Russia in whatever incarnation it momentarily appears cannot be allowed to prosper and always has to be pitted against other powers.

Russia will hopefully go on the offensive by rewriting the history of WWII itself. For WWII wouldn’t have come about without Western scheming and conniving starting right when WWI came to a close. The treaty of Versailles lay the groundwork by virtually guaranteeing a burning German desire for correcting its wrongs. The allies also failed to address the issue of Germany’s internal war debts. It would have been so easy to decree that creditors, who were mostly landed nobility, the so-called Junkers, had to write off their claims. That did not happen and led to these Junkers supporting right-wing desperados, including Hitler, when the German state could not pay its dues. The list goes on and on. The process of rewriting the history of WWII will hopefully not stop before it has encompassed what currently are the greatest taboos of all. Russia has the nuclear option of opening up its archives and will hopefully make use of it.