Medinsky later went further in his defence of the film and his disgust for those who questioned the story.
The legend was cooked up to fit in with the Soviet demand that soldiers should fight to the death rather than surrender.
The war’s huge place in the national psyche is understandable, given the Soviet Union lost more than 20 million citizens during the war years.
The nationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky said in recent weeks that he had called at a government meeting for Mironenko to be fired.
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