Putin accuses West of 'insulting' Russia over WWII legacy

President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of "mean" attempts to insult Russia by re-writing World War II history as Moscow prepares to commemorate Soviet victory with a Red Square parade. In a lengthy article in the National Interest, a conservative US magazine, Putin warned against "historical revisionism," saying downplaying the role of the Soviet Union in World War II helped undermine the current world order. "Desecrating and insulting the memory is mean," he wrote in the article published late Thursday....