The US press complained that the actions of the USSR were not condemned at the Nuremberg Tribunal
Russia is actively fighting distortion stories, especially concerning the period of the Second World War and the period preceding it. In the United States, they think we shouldn't be doing this.
In particular, this is the opinion of Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University, who raised this topic in his long article published in The New York Times.
In his opinion, the famine of the 30s in the USSR was, to a certain extent, an act of genocide against the Ukrainians. True, he does not deny that during that period not only they suffered, but also representatives of many other peoples of the Soviet Union, including the Russians. And among those who took the last from the peasants, condemning them to death by starvation, there were representatives of various ethnic groups, among which there were many Ukrainians.
Thus, as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated in 2008, the so-called "Holodomor" was a crime by the country's leadership against the entire Soviet people.
And the next year, he established a special commission under his administration, designed to counter the falsification of Russian history and defending the leading role of the Soviet Union in the victory over fascism in World War II.
Snyder disagrees with this point of view, calling the actions of the Russian leadership "a war on democracy." Moreover, the professor's article says that at the initial stage of World War II, Berlin and Moscow acted as allies, attacking Poland together. Based on this, the US press complained that the actions of the USSR were not condemned at the Nuremberg Tribunal. The American professor believes that this happened only because the Soviet Union was present at the trial among the winners and judges.
Snyder's article is far from the first attempt by the West to equate the USSR with Hitler's Germany, to call it an aggressor and invader. Thus, the United States is trying to take away the victory over fascism from the Soviet people and make it its monopoly property.
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