When the truth is twisted!

Moscow - Veterans news. Of the two million tons of bombs dropped by the Western Allies on Germany during World War II, a third of these were dropped in the last months of the war. By then, Marshal Zhukov's men had already crossed the Oder and the Nazis had effectively lost. The unnecessary human suffering and losses caused by this late bombing were unimaginable, and the architectural destruction total. In Potsdam, Berlin and Dresden alone, hundreds of years of European cultural history were lost.

These days we celebrate the liberation from Nazism and falsehood flourishes again. For example; The Soviets had liberated Norway in the northeast the year before, and the Americans thought it was right and reasonable that the Soviet Union was rewarded with a foothold and a free port in the north of Norway. However, Stalin chose to renounce all territorial claims and referred to the help the Norwegian Mr. Nansen had given the Russian population during the famine in the 30s. It is still said that the Soviets had only one wish at that time, namely to occupy more land.

Now it is again written in capital letters in the media about the Western powers' efforts in the struggle for freedom. The Soviet people who bore the great burden were once again passed over.

"If we had honored each and every one of the Soviet people who gave their lives to save themselves and Europe from Nazi rule with a minute's silence, silence would have descended over the earth for 51 years."

The Russian people and their leaders have been a good European neighbor for more than a thousand years. They have never done the Europeans anything but good. Yet western Europe twists the truth and time after time stands at the forefront of spreading hatred and unfriendliness.

Mr. Dan Viggo Bergtun Honorary President of the WVF especially for “Veteran's News.”

Image: free colorization of Zhukov in Berlin, 1945