And I know History is a forgotten course in most schools today; but here is a tidbit on how it can be re-written even while many who were there or took a History class are still here:
Warsaw (AFP) - The Russian ambassador to Poland has alleged that Warsaw was partly to blame for World War II, prompting a storm of protest in the country which claims to be its greatest victim.
Sergei Andreev accused Poland -- which lost the highest proportion of its population in the conflict -- of "blocking the creation of an anti-Nazi coalition" which made it "co-responsible for World War II".
The ambassador also justified the Soviet invasion of Poland after Hitler and Stalin secretly agreed to divide up the country between them, as necessary to "guarantee the security of the Soviet Union".
And he said the Soviet decision to crush the Polish resistance as the war ended was motivated by the need to have a "friendly country at its borders".
More than 200,000 Polish soldiers were sent to camps in Siberia after the Red Army invaded Poland in September 1939, with nearly 22,000 of their officers massacred mostly at Katyn (Forest) . Moscow blamed the Nazis for the atrocities until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Several hundred thousand Poles considered "enemies of the people" were also transported to Soviet prison and work camps, with many perishing alongside imprisoned Polish soldiers from cold, hunger and overwork.
I have always said that History is written by the winners and the losers live it. I must be wrong here; as both Countries were part of the winning side. Gotta salute Putin and his gang; they have got some huge stones.
And for those of you who still wanted the Truth:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton blamed Republicans and the media for the controversy surrounding his wife's use of a private email server as secretary of state, arguing that GOP rivals want to focus on political hype to undercut her presidential campaign.
"I have never seen so much expended on so little," Clinton said in an interview to be aired Sunday, describing the email furor as resulting largely from the GOP's "full-scale frontal assault" on Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. Excerpts of the interview on "CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS" were released on Saturday.
"The other party doesn't want to run against her. And if they do, they'd like her as mangled up as possible," Clinton said.
Republicans have raised questions about thousands of emails that she has deleted on grounds that they were private in nature, as well as other messages that have surfaced independently of Hillary Clinton and the State Department.
Bill Clinton likened the email controversy to questions over the Whitewater land deal that he faced during his 1992 presidential campaign. Saying the furor was more politics than substance, Clinton argued that his wife has been open in answering questions and will bounce back from a decline in the polls.
In those days, the Clintons under Bill's dominance was more than able to bluff their way through any investigation and with the help of friends in Arkansas, it was hidden. Not so easy to do now with Ms. Clinton and her server front and center.
And than Mr. Clinton has said: Clinton added that the news media also played an inappropriate role in his wife's troubles. Friday, the Obama administration discovered a chain of emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to turn over when she provided what she said was the full record of her work-related correspondence as secretary of state.
For those of us that lived in the farther reaches of the kingdom (the West Coast), we just sat, stared and laughed at how ridiculously conducted the investigation was done in what we called the South. Small town politics at its best we said. No one saw, heard or said anything.