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Soviet media downplayed the significance of the D-Day invasion

  • Written by Stephen Norris, Professor of History; Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University
Soviet media downplayed the significance of the D-Day invasionThe Soviet Union's leading newspaper only mentioned D-Day in small print at the very top of its front page on June 7, 1944.Pravda

When Russian President Vladimir Putin was not invited to participate in the 75th anniversary commemorations of D-Day held in France in 2019, he claimed it was “not a problem” because the Allied invasion of...

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