"Is it propaganda? .. Like propaganda? No?" Repeated my neighbor. "Twenty seven million soviets died.. did you know? .. it was the soviets who raised the flag in Berlin ... I don't understand.. why do Americans think THEY won the war? ..and why are Americans taught this? It's like propaganda, no?"
The guardsmen monument symbolically defends the Kremlin and pays tribute to the Kazakhs who died fighting in WW2. Listen here to a man in my local pub explaining how 28 Kazakh men fended off a battalion of German tanks.
It was interesting to see someone supporting Stalin. I didn't see him here last year. My Russian teacher was surprised when I showed her this. She told me that by the mid 1960's most of soviet people were aware of the atrocities that had occurred under him.
"I remember! I'm Proud!"
