No, not that. I mean the actual depiction and recordings of the WW2 combat operations. I vividly remember a TV documentation made by a german camera team in advance of the 60-year anniversary of the end of WW2 in Europe in 2005. They interviewed a lot of people, among them a retired Colonel who had been part of a team of Red Army historians who'd gone over the records for a new "definite" work on the Battle of Kursk in the 1980s and this Colonel complained that modern Russia apparently did not want to honor its veterans by producing an accurate picture of the war's events. He said that he'd offered his services since he knew that the numbers and events recorded were often made up on behalf of Stalin and did not reflect what really happened but he was told to STFU in no uncertain terms. At that time a certain Vladimir Putin was residing in the Kreml ... so the question about what this "patriotic thing" means is very much justified.
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