Glad to see some straight talking here from Medvedev; Firstly we must develop and strengthen our Navy, we must build and build it, until it is a real creditable force in the world. The truth is, it is a shadow of the Soviet naval forces. However we need a strategy for the future on Naval forces. There is much debate on the usefulness of certain ships including aircraft carriers, in today's likely conflict situations, so this debate needs concluding to give an overall approach and blueprint that will work for us. Secondly, really glad to see the resolute statement on opposing falsification of history, so much practiced by the east Europeans. We really must just draw the line and state the truth as we have always done. The falsifiers are free to keep pedaling their fictitious nonsense. But that is all it is, fictitious nonsense, it is time for Russia to just move on based on the truth and let these fairy tale tellers waste their breath.

Count Cash, President Medvedev is lecturing to the choir! These Russian soldiers [most probably] already know their history. If he wants to contest falsification of WWII and save the Glorious legacy of the Red Army, he needs to fund Russian films, art and education. Russia needs to produce films about the Red Army for new audiences in not only in Russia but for the world stage. The world needs to know how the Soviet face death and destruction on eye and overcame.

For at least the hundredth time, Medvedev alleges that someone or another is trying to “revise the outcome of World War II and the contribution of the Soviet Union and the Red Army”, yet he never gives even one example of anyone who actually disagrees with the fact that the Red Army played an absolutely pivotal and irreplaceable role in the defeat of Nazi Germany. Medvedev and his colleagues simple set up a straw man, time and time and time again, and triumphantly knock it over. Nor is anyone anywhere that I know of trying to “revise the outcome of World War II.” That outcome was recorded in history from the day the war ended, and forms a consistent narrative in history books everywhere in the world – except in Russia. This does not mean that everyone else if “revising the outcome of the War.” It simply means that Russia is out of step with what everyone else knows, and has always known and acknowledged, about the outcome of the war. For about half a century following the War Russians did not need to worry about it, because they were hermetically sealed off from the rest of the world inside the Iron Curtain, and the wider intellectual world did not concern them. In the last couple of decades they have come face-to-face with it for the first time, and of all things they assume that the world is in a big conspiracy to “revise” something. Part of the outcome of World War II about which Russians deliberately choose to believe a heroic myth is that the Red Army liberated Eastern Europe. Absolutely nowhere that the Red Army trod did it bring liberty, not in Eastern Europe and not even in Russia itself. It simply replaced one terrible system of totalitarian oppression with another. There was no liberty anywhere in Eastern Europe until the collapse of Soviet control beginning from the late 1980s. Yes, the Red Army won victory, but victory and liberation are two entirely different and distinct things. Stalin was anything but a freedom fighter.

Mazipan smells like pyro and feels funny, . .'Medvedev and his colleagues simple set up a straw man, time and time and time again, and triumphantly knock it over.' Somethings smells fishy..