Poles see Red over Russian version of Second World War

IN THE old Soviet Union, the future was always certain; only the past was liable to change without notice. The signal that it had changed was often the publication of a pseudo-scholarly article that denounced the "falsifications" of the existing version of history.

Here we go again. Last week Colonel Sergei Kovalev, director of the scientific research department at the Institute of Military History, published an article on the website of the Russian defence ministry entitled Fictions and Falsifications in Evalu...