RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin warned against attempts to rewrite history and of the rise of fascist and neonazi parties in eastern Europe in an address to the annual Victory Day parade today.

On the 76th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Soviet Union, Mr Putin condemned bids to “justify traitors and criminals, on whose hands lies the blood of hundreds of thousands of peaceful people.

“Unfortunately, many of the ideologies of the Nazis, those who were obsessed with the delusional theory of their exclusiveness, are again trying to be put into service,” he said.