Russian Justice Ministry’s new online ‘sovereignty’ exhibition includes a Nazi propaganda film calling Hitler the ‘liberator of the Russian people’ — with no explanation

A new section devoted to an exhibition called “Protecting the Sovereignty of the Russian State: History and the Present Day” has appeared on the website of Russia’s Justice Ministry. The project has several parts: an attractively designed registry of “foreign agents” and sections containing the country’s history, photographs, and documentary films. Among the latter, unexpectedly, is a propaganda film about Hitler, presented with no context whatsoever. After the launch, many people noticed that…