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President Vladimir Putin delivering a speech on TV and radio on the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War

June 22, 2001, Moscow

“We will defend the right to establish the truth about this war. We will fight against all attempts to alter and falsify the truth about this war, to humiliate and blot out the memory of those who died during the war. We cannot rewrite history. We should learn its lessons. Especially when we paid high price for these lessons,” President Putin said.

June 22, 2001, Moscow