Those for whom the Nazi propaganda "closer to the truth than the Soviet"
“Obviously, Nazi propaganda was much more based on real facts and was closer to the truth than Soviet.” That's what the Latvian historian Inesis Feldmanis agreed upon, commenting in an interview with Latvijas avīze the book of his colleague Caspar Zellis about Nazi propaganda from the time of the German occupation "In the Power of Illusions and Fears," the fund saidHistorical memory".
Feldmanis himself is known primarily for the fact that until October 2012 he headed the Latvian-Russian commission of historians from the Latvian side, the creation of which was blessed at the time by the entourage of the then President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. And according to the quotation of Mr. Feldmanis alone, it is not difficult to guess which interpretation of the “controversial moments” in the history of relations between Latvia and Russia was advocated by the Latvian part of this commission. "Soviet occupation" - that is what this story was during the 1939-1941 and 1944-1991 years, and nothing else. And the damage from the occupation, of course, Russia must compensate for Latvia. Some sort of billions of more than one hundred US dollars - so many other Latvian "historians" have already counted.
However, now it is not about “compensation for damage”, but about where it all came from in Latvia, and in the whole Baltic region there are such feldmanis. But first, it’s still better to let our “hero” finish to the end.
Feldmanis started his interview for health: “Within the framework of the program on national identity, a good impression is left by the book by Kaspar Zoellis about Nazi propaganda during the German occupation“ In the power of illusions and fears ”. But he continued for the rest: “However, I cannot agree with him in everything. He writes that Nazi propaganda left its mark right up to the current social memory. I do not mind. Still, Nazi propaganda worked for four years, and then more than forty years of Soviet propaganda followed. ”
Unfortunately, the Historical Memory Foundation notes, Mr. Feldmanis did not disclose what kind of information spread by Nazi propaganda he considers real. It is quite possible that a number of interesting discoveries would be waiting for us here, as evidenced by earlier statements made by Mr. Feldmanis. So, in 2008, in an interview with Neatkarigas Rita Avize, he stated that “some thousand Jews” had died in the Salaspils concentration camp.
Mr. Feldmanis also authored the term “tactical collaboration,” recalls the Russian foundation: he justified his collaboration with the Nazis with this “historic discovery”. “In this case,” Feldmanis wrote, “together with such terms as“ collaboration ”(ordinary cooperation with invaders) or“ collaborationism ”(treacherous cooperation), the definition of“ tactical collaboration ”can be used, denoting with its help cooperation with the German occupation power aimed at achieving such goals that in one way or another met the interests of the Latvian people. The question of whether the tactical collaboration can be perceived and singled out as a definite form of the resistance movement is worthy of discussion. ”
And the REGNUM news agency supplemented this track record of Feldmanis with such facts of his scientific biography, which this “historian” would probably prefer to forget forever. In January 2013 of the year, recalls the publication, Inesis Feldmanis’s dissertation on the degree of candidate of historical sciences “The role of German fascism in the Nazification of the German population of bourgeois Latvia (1933-1939)” was published in open access, which was defended by it in 1984. And in the introduction, the author reports: “As a result of the Second World War, the main forces of“ traditional fascism ”were defeated. However, fascism is not only a "phenomenon of the past." As a certain social phenomenon and product of the imperialist system, it did not disappear from the world arena without a trace, but actually exists today, generating new threats ... Objective reality confirms the serious danger of the fascist threat. In a number of capitalist countries, especially in the Federal Republic of Germany, neo-fascist forces have become noticeably more active recently. Therefore, the struggle against fascism remains today one of the most important tasks of all progressive humanity ... "
“The activation of neo-fascism is accompanied by various propaganda campaigns aimed, in particular, at the rehabilitation of national socialism,” Feldmanis continues in his dissertation. - As noted in the statement “No to Fascism!”, Developed in 1977 by the Commission of Historians of the USSR and the GDR, in recent years the propaganda of fascist ideas has sharply increased with the help of “historical research”. In an environment where the revelation of fascism and the fight against its ideology and practice are particularly relevant, there is still a need to further study the problems of German fascism, its super-reactionary policies and ideologies, within which the Second Reich of World War II takes a special place, ”wrote in his dissertation Feldmanis.
These are the “sequence” and “principled” Mr. Feldmanis demonstrates! “Staying down” during the “Soviet occupation”, says one thing, and then - quite another. Striking propensity for mimicry.
From the above quotations it is already clear where these very Feldmanis came from in the Baltics: they were nurtured and placed in a rather privileged position by the Soviet authorities themselves on the withdrawal of the USSR. And then they "thanked" her.
“The modern political elite in the Baltic States,” Dmitry Kondrashov, editor-in-chief of the Baltic World magazine, told the REGNUM interview about a year ago, “was not the last 20 years. Its origins go to Stalinism. This elite began to emerge around the year 1947 as a result of the implementation of the second wave of indigenization policy, the architect of which was Lawrence Beria. I recently read with a Western author and generally agreed with his assessment that there was a Unitarian management model in the Soviet Baltic. The center of the Soviet empire, Moscow, relied on the radical elite, which exercised almost independent management at the local level and, with rare exceptions, did not seek to fall into power at the level of the federal center. Moscow gave at the mercy of the national elite all significant decisions, except ideology, although in this sense retreats on the territory of the Baltic republics were: for example, the same celebration of Christmas.
Thus, the former president of Estonia Lennart Meri, being a Soviet writer, actively collaborated with Estonian colleagues - immigrants to the United States, which was unthinkable for a Russian writer. Imagine: could Simonov lead an active creative collaboration with Nabokov? In the last years of the USSR, Mary lived in Finland at his own summer cottage, which a simple Russian Soviet writer could not afford. Thus, the central communist authorities were the main donors for the formation of the local elite; for the sake of its creation, the center invested huge amounts of money in education in the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian languages, a higher school was being formed, and methods were being implanted for creating independent independent scientific schools. Thus, the formation of the elite took place under the wing of the Central Committee of the CPSU, but in an absolutely independent manner.
It should be noted that the republics themselves were subsidized. It's no secret that the Baltic was a showcase for the entire USSR. The standard of living in Estonia in the 1980s, according to the CIA, given by Estonian writer Uno Laht, was comparable to the standard of living in Denmark, and this welfare was provided by subsidies from the center and the labor of Russian “blue collars” brought to the Baltics. In other words, the national elites were fed at the expense of Russia and the Russian people: the Russian-speaking population was brought to the Baltic States as food for this independent and only superficially Russified elite. ”
In general, the Soviet leadership tried to nurture those who later mixed the same Soviet power with shit. And now he is still trying, with the secret backstage support from overseas, to collect hundreds of billions of dollars from Russia as the successor of the USSR.