📧 Communication

This document is a page from a Freedom House report (Chapter 4) titled 'The Ministry of Truth in Peace and War.' It analyzes Vladimir Putin's efforts to rehabilitate Joseph Stalin's image and rewrite Russian history textbooks to justify state authoritarianism and counter Western narratives. The text details specific instances of this revisionism, including the 2007 history curriculum and Putin's 2015 defense of the Hitler-Stalin pact. The document bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' Bates stamp.