Russia imposes the memory of Stalinism’s executioners over that of its victims.

Pilar Bonet   El País31 May 2026
Russian propaganda equates the aggression against Ukraine with defending the USSR from German invaders in World War II from 1941.

The profound difference between the two conflicts does not matter.

The banning of Memorial, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate organisation, is a qualitative step by the Kremlin to monopolise the interpretation of history