Scotsman: "One of Russia's most senior Second World War veterans has accused the West of trying to ignore the role of the Soviet Union in the conflict.
Filipp Bobkov, who joined the Red Army in 1942 when he was just 16, and who later became a KGB general, has claimed the West wrote the Russian armed forces out of the history of the war, which cost an estimated 20 million Soviet lives and devastated large areas of the country.
Bobkov also criticised the West for failing to bomb the rail lines to Auschwitz and the concentration camps, and claimed that the fact that the Red Army liberated the camps was overlooked.
There is no doubt that we owe them a tremendous debt of honour that we should never forget."
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