Well-Trained Historians

So President Putin:

“If the Baltic countries became part of the USSR in 1939, then there is no way we could occupy them in 1941, since they were already part of the Soviet Union,” Putin argued. “Maybe I did not study well at the university because I drank a lot of beer in Soviet times, but I have something left in my head because the history professors were good,” he added.

ISN Security Watch, May 11, 2005