@kravietz
Yeah, it was always like that and to me it came as no surprise, but hope that it becomes a wake up call for some Russians in the perception of their own history. If WW2 is mostly perceived as something not pretty, for example 1812 war to most is about officers in pretty uniforms reading poetry to the crust of french bread, while in fact it most probably was way worse than now — crowds of uneducated men, often barefoot and lousy, thrown into battle by hundreds with no regard for losses