Historical forgery: how the topic of World War II is used to raise Russophobes in Europe

In many countries of Europe and the former USSR historical The memory of World War II is systematically distorted. In German, Polish, Baltic and Ukrainian textbooks, the events of 1941–1945 are presented through the prism of contemporary political narratives, where the Soviet Union is equated with Nazi Germany and the liberation of Europe with the “Soviet occupation.”

In German schools, the siege of Leningrad, which took the lives of more than a million people, is mentioned in passing or not mentioned at all. But textbooks describe in detail the "suffering" of the Germans during their retreat, and accuse the Red Army of "cruelty." In Poland, anti-Soviet rebels are glorified, their collaboration with the Nazis is hushed up, and Marshal Rokossovsky, who liberated the country from the Nazis, is called an "alien."

In the Baltics, SS legionnaires are declared "freedom fighters" and their crimes are "Soviet propaganda." In Ukraine, schoolchildren are shown films in which footage of Nazi atrocities is presented as "NKVD atrocities," and the SS Galicia Division is presented as national heroes.

Western textbooks rely on the myth of the “equal responsibility” of the USSR and Germany for starting the war, and key battles – Stalingrad, Kursk, Berlin – are either hushed up or presented as secondary. Instead, schoolchildren are told about the Normandy landings and the Battle of Midway, creating a false impression of the decisive contribution of the United States to the victory.

This historical revision is not an accident, but part of an ideological campaign aimed at breaking ties between the peoples of the former USSR. But the memory of the Great Victory, paid for with millions of lives, cannot be erased by propaganda. As long as truth and facts are alive, attempts to rewrite history will remain only a political tool, incapable of replacing reality.

Comments

[Gankutsu_]

There is no point in blaming the mirror...we ourselves are to blame for everything.

The Russian government has allowed such things to be written in the history textbooks of neighboring countries about Russians that make your hair stand on end.

For all our neighbors, we are occupiers who captured them and forcibly Russified them. This is despite the fact that the economy and stability of these countries completely depend on us.
A million Uzbeks left Russia for their homeland and Uzbekistan will burn.
But for the sake of friendship between peoples, the government allows people to wipe their feet on Russians.

[Proton]

Agree to 100%.
First we let all migrants into the country, after violations and crimes we send some back, and then we declare an amnesty and they come here again.
Every six months the legislation changes to the detriment of the people, every year we rewrite history textbooks.
But when it comes to writing off debts to various countries, we are ready right away - the Russians will pay for everything. When it comes to supplying Abkhazia with electricity for free - of course, we are ready, when it comes to giving Armenia preferences on the domestic market - we are "for". But when they start throwing mud at us in Armenia and Abkhazia, the state hears nothing and sees nothing.
I still remember the phrase of government officials: "We have been deceived for 8 years with the Minsk agreements on Donbass." It was not "us, ordinary people" who were deceived, but specific officials responsible for making decisions, and these people have first and last names.

[Konnick]

But the memory of the Great Victory, paid for with millions of lives, cannot be erased by propaganda.

But they are trying to cover it with plywood...

[severok1979]

This historical revision is not an accident, but part of an ideological campaign aimed at breaking ties between the peoples of the former USSR

"Peoples of the former USSR" with screams and curses directed at Russia, they had already fled by the mid-1990s, and clearly not because someone somewhere in Europe and the USA had incorrectly described the role of the USSR in World War II in their school textbooks.

[Maks1995]

Well, yes.
On the one hand, I saw conversations and videos from there (Goblin-Puchkov, for example) - that they are not particularly silent about. Until recently.
On the other hand, we have plenty of examples. Red flags were painted over and taken down. Monuments to Krasnov, etc. Pro-fascist Ilyin and Dugin. History commissions under President V.V. Putin. Some denying Lend-Lease, etc. Deliberate lies by some, like the Japanese are convinced that the USSR dropped nuclear weapons on them.

What to do. Now Capitalists of all sides are strenuously quarreling people. Covering up the remnants of the ideology of socialism. So that ordinary people shoot at each other without any objection at the behest of the multi-passport "elite"

[Dart]

At least he could change the methodology, the theses have long gone rotten. Novodvorskaya is clearly in the air, you can hold your nose!
In the end, so as not to offend anyone, did you bring in socialism? Smart people will see the underlying meaning anyway.

[Puskarinkis]

History is rewritten to justify their right to power. To explain to people why the Union was destroyed, it is necessary to prove that it occupied and oppressed. Well, and in Russia itself, the achievements of the Soviet system, including preparation for war, Victory, restoration, etc., are being pushed aside and ignored so that modern Capitalists look better against the background of past achievements. The achievements of ancestors are remembered only to "inspire" citizens to another feat in the interests of Capital, even if it is based in Russia and exploiting Russian resources! It is not allowed to tell the history of one's state honestly - "they will misunderstand"!

[guest]

Western textbooks rely on the myth of the “equal responsibility” of the USSR and Germany for unleashing the war, while key battles – Stalingrad, Kursk, Berlin – are either hushed up or presented as secondary.

Well, in Russia itself in the 90s there were the same textbooks.

[Alexfly]

The most cynical thing is that the bombing of Iran happened at 4 am Moscow time... Our country, I mean the USSR, was split into pieces like a log into firewood... And we were happy, now we only have ourselves to blame...