Historian Tom Holland debunks Putin’s claims after Tucker Carlson interview

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00:00 the course of the interview that he did with Carlsson to come up with facts that are so

00:06 plainly wrong that everyone knows they're wrong. So when he says that in 1939 when the Germans

00:13 invaded Poland the Poles were collaborationists, everyone knows that's wrong and what makes it

00:21 even more egregious is that everybody knows who was actually collaborating with the Nazis in the

00:27 partition of Poland. It wasn't the Poles themselves, it was the Soviet Union of which

00:32 Russia is the predominant heir and the fact that Putin should play fast and loose with such a well

00:40 known part of history I think just absolutely exemplifies the way in which basic historical

00:48 fact is being sacrificed on the altar of his no doubt passionately held sense of what history

00:56 should actually be like but isn't.

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