• Ukraine releases Stalin-era Soviet files that Russia refused to publish
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[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76673000/jpg/_76673563_harbin.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28604779[/url] [quote]Ukraine's SBU security service has published "top secret", Stalin-era files that Russia does not want to release. The SBU chief archivist, Ihor Kulyk, says his colleagues recently read on Facebook that - at the request of Russia's FSB security service - a court in Moscow denied Russian historian Sergei Prudovsky access to look at a cache of documents dealing with Japan's efforts to recruit right-wing Russian emigres as spies. After hearing about the case, the archivist "decided to help the Russian researcher by publishing the document in question" - since there was a copy in the Kiev vaults, Ukraine's Centre for the Study of the Liberation Movement reports. "It is purely of historical value, and so in Ukraine access to it cannot be denied," the Ukrainian archivist says, adding that anyone interested can drop by the SBU archives and have a look at the file.[/quote]
It's a shame the Russians have severely tightened control over all the old Soviet archives; they're a great historical treasure trove.
Interesting, though I doubt anything of particular importance will be discovered, though, if they also house copies of other, more important documents, it would make for a very interesting read.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;45563399]It's a shame the Russians have severely tightened control over all the old Soviet archives; they're a great historical treasure trove.[/QUOTE] Most of the archives have already been released, except the really confidential ones that also the US and other countries have.
They should release the one about [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_battle_over_Ni%C5%A1]the air battle over Niš[/url] during WW2. It'd be real interesting to find out how the US Army Air Force and Red Army Air Force ended up fighting each other in Serbia
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