The Bank of Russia has issued a series of coins dedicated to the capitals of countries “liberated by Soviet troops from Nazi invaders.”

This is a wonderful opportunity for Russia to use the history of the Second World War to place foreign capitals on its own coins as a reminder that all this was also “ours.”

In this series almost everything is a lie, an attempt to rewrite history again. Let’s start with what today is called liberation. For the many cities included in the bank’s series, it was called something quite different during the war.