>I was reading a book recently that described the fallacies of the Soviet response to the German invasion of 1941. What I found extraordinary was that in the afterward in the book the author said that he doubted that further insight could be gained because Putin had cut off most access to the Soviet archives.
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>Russia is moving towards a nationalistic fascist state. It would not be the first time.

Based on what you have read about events that took place 60-70 years ago,(nothing to do with fascisam but anyway)
or you are refering to Putin denying KGB archive books ?

Can you digg up for me some CIA archives on a short notice ? If you wanted to write book about US involvement
in Colombia or Honduras for instance, (just tiny example). How far would they let you digg ?

Constantly blaming Russia is a cheap bid/drift by your policy makers to recreate it as arch-foe that once it used to be,
whereas this is no longer truth for quiet a bit of time. Russia does things to protect their interests, but their interest
is no longer changing social orders, enslaving other nations etc. They now care mostly about their own money/resources,
just like everybody else. Unlike most of world countries, they have much more of a power to protect it.

This is perhaps sore point that additionally fuels this bad bad drift.