Quote:A row between Russia and EU countries over the causes of World War Two has escalated, with a top Russian official condemning the US ambassador to Poland.
Parliament Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said a tweet by Ambassador Georgette Mosbacher was "insulting" to Russians and Americans.
On Monday "Dear President Putin, Hitler and Stalin colluded to start WWII."
President Vladimir Putin says Poland and its allies are distorting history.
During a marathon news conference on 19 December, the Russian president said it was "totally unacceptable and inaccurate" to cast equal blame on Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin for the war's outbreak.
Mr Putin said he had requested Soviet archive documents in order to write an article on the subject - Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 - and, in his view, to set the record straight.
He argued that the Western powers and Poland had appeased Hitler's aggression by letting him grab Czechoslovakia in 1938.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50955273
This is all news to me - I thought it was a universally accepted truth that Hitler started WW2 by invading Poland
also, let sleeping dogs lie? Stalin's army ENDED WW2 by seizing Berlin, no? So tarring them with the dirty end of the stick now over the start seems, er, beyond unhelpful to me.
