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The West is risking inciting a global conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed during his speech on Red Square at Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations. Following the victory parade, held annually on May 9 to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, Putin accused Western nations of “arrogance” and claimed they have forgotten the Soviet Union’s significant role in winning World War II. “In the West, they would like to forget the lessons of the Second World War,” Putin said. “But we remember that the fate of mankind was decided in the grand battles near Moscow and Leningrad, Rzhev, …

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