MOSCOW. Dec 12 (Interfax) - The conclusions made in a European Parliament resolution in which Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are put in the same league as countries which provoked the Second World War are an unfounded and blatant lie, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"The attempts to distort this historical truth are not stopping. It is not only the heirs of Nazi accomplices who have joined them, this has now reached certain quite respectable international institutions and European bodies," Putin said at a meeting of the organizing committee Pobeda, which is dealing with the preparations for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
The European Parliament resolution recently "essentially placed the Nazi aggressors and the Soviet Union on the same shelf," he said.
"They almost accuse the USSR alongside Nazi Germany of unleashing the Second World War. It seems like they've forgotten who attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, and the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941," Putin said.
"Those who try to argue about such an out-and-out lie, which is in fact based on nothing, are accused in advance of an information war against democratic Europe," he said.
The truth will be the response to that lie, Putin said.
"We will continue to tell about the events and facts of the Great Patriotic War, to disclose and publish archive materials in full. You get the impression that some of our counterparts can't read or write, and don't have eyes, it's as if they don't know anything. But we will tell them," he said.
The information "about the victories and defeats of the Red Army, about the tragic fate of our captives, about the courage of resistance fighters, about the shame of Nazi collaborators, about the tragedy of the Holocaust and about the crimes against civilians, and about the outrage committed by the nationalists and Hitler's accomplices" will be disclosed, Putin said.
"I am sure that there are no unfavorable and inconvenient pages and cannot be any in this history. This is needed in total and as a single whole for us and for future generations, which is especially important, and moreover, without any niceties," he said.