June 14, 2007. The Russian Ministry of Defence has removed the secrecy label from the archive documents of the Red Army and Navy of 1941-1945. This concerns the documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence in Podolsk, where more than 4 million dossiers of WW2 were kept in closed access. Besides, the declassification also spreads on Central Naval Archive in Gatchina and the Military-Medical Archive in St. Petersburg, where hundred thousand of documents are kept.
It is known that at the moment the declassified archives are being processed and it is planned to create an electronic database, a so-called “Electronic archive”. These works are expected to finish in February-March of 2008.
Russian officials hope that these materials will help to explode a theory of the historian Suvorov saying that it was the USSR to launch the war but not Germany.
Sources: http://cursorinfo.co.il
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Robert Guthrie
: This is a very nobel jesture of Mother Russia. It will take years to classify these to digital records, I can't wait to hear about the lost of a war ship sunk with gold on board to pay for the War debt owed during the Lend Lease program. Added: 17 June 2007 02:42 |
