Against falsification

Some of you might have seen in the news last week the verbal sparring that went on in Gdansk between Putin and Donald Tusk, about the actual "real and truthful" start of WWII. Polish were blaming the Ruskies, and Ruskies were blaming the Polish - it was all a bit of same old, same old. What is fascinating though, is that I found out today that as of May 2009 a new commission has been established in Moscow. It's goal: "to oppose attempts at falsification of history." Effectively this commission was established to make sure that the West and any Russian (erroneous) historians do not try to bend the truth and put Russia in a bad light. Especially seeing as there has been a lot of talk recently about USSR being at fault for Hitler starting WWII, as well as talk of Soviet soldiers being less than noble in Eastern Europe around that time. Either way it looks like this commission is just another Kremlin propaganda machine. The funniest thing is that two books have since been published by this commission, which address the roles of Poland and Baltic states in WWII. These books are composed from the recently-made-public secret German and Polish documents (which "apparently" came into posession of soviet spies at the time), which detail how very nasty all those countries were. Incidentally, no other copies of these documents seem to exist anywhere else. But that doesn't make the authors blink an eye: "Well the originals must have been lost when Germany cleared out polish archives in the start of the war" - or so they say... to end this post on a more philosophical question - can there ever be one absolute truth?