Monuments and Putin’s Chef

Saitzev By Unknown author — http://aloban75.livejournal.com/564228.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41623380

While the Russian reputation was tarnished in Eastern Europe, it was not fully destroyed. Now it is. One of the things nations like Latvia and Poland are doing is destroying world war two monuments to the red army.

Moscow is not happy because this is ignoring the feats of the Red Army in liberating Eastern Europe. In Russia, the Great Patriotic War is nothing short of civic religion, sometimes more legend than…