MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. Recent attempts to rewrite the history of the World War II and Russia’s role in it are nothing but ‘cynical lies’ aimed to deprive the country of its ‘victor-country status,’ President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

The Russian president said that "the insolent defamation of the whole generation of people, who gave everything they had for this Victory and stood up for peace in the world," was aimed "at eroding the power and moral authority of modern Russia and to deprive it of the status of the victor-country with all the following international legal consequences."

Russian President has instructed Russia’s Victory Day celebration organizing committee to effectively counter attempts to distort the truth about World War II.