Falsification of world history as an attempt to change the modern world order. Falsification of the history of the Great Patriotic War. Lies to destroy
Falsification. This disease appeared along with history itself, it manifested itself both in Russia and in the world in all periods, under all rulers and regimes. But at the end of the progressive twentieth century and now in the enlightened twenty-first century, it has become aggressive, vulgarly impudent, far from the truth. Of course, the basic thing here is the struggle of ideologies and political preferences. But to a large extent, this is “faulted” by a solid trend towards the openness of archives, massive publication of documents, and an expanding array of memoirs of participants in the events.
Konstantin Fedorovich Zatulin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Director of the Institute of CIS Countries, rightly noted that “today the falsification of history is on a grand scale, it has a rabid, impudent character, it is inspired by the fact that new, independent states that are trying to find their own understanding of history and very often go the wrong way in these attempts, ready to retroactively credit individuals who are difficult to be proud of as heroes of their liberation.
Under the President of the Russian Federation, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 25, 2009, a Commission was established to counter attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia's interests. The main tasks of the Commission are: generalization and analysis of information about the falsification of historical facts and events aimed at belittling the international prestige of Russia, and preparation of relevant reports to the President of the Russian Federation; development of a strategy to counter attempts to falsify historical facts and events, undertaken in order to damage the interests of our country; preparation of proposals for the implementation of measures aimed at countering attempts to falsify historical facts and events that are detrimental to Russia's interests; consideration of proposals and coordination of the activities of federal state authorities, state authorities of the constituent entities of the Federation and organizations on countering attempts to falsify historical facts and events to the detriment of Russia's interests; development of recommendations for an adequate response to attempts to falsify historical facts and events to the detriment of Russia's interests and to neutralize their possible negative consequences.
No one doubts the need to counter falsification; on the contrary, it is welcomed in every possible way. But the content side of its activities is understood in different ways, in the media, especially on the Internet, quite a lot of conflicting information has been expressed. In this regard, I will give a long quote in which S. E. Narochnitskaya, as a member of this Commission, interpreted its goal in this way: “In general, the Commission’s task is not to develop directives - it does not have a mandate for this, and engage in an "inventory" of problems and mobilize resources - research, information, which could contribute to the conveyance of historical truth and true knowledge on a particular topic, on which a lot of distortions and conjectures have arisen and are being replicated.
Let's say now it's the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. There is television, there is radio, there are public speeches, lectures, books, thick magazines are published in which this topic is actively discussed. To what extent, based on scientific research and documentary sources, do these information resources disseminate judgments? Are good books and analytics accessible to the general reader and viewer in the true sense of the word? Where can they get acquainted with serious literature or programs in which the facts themselves or archival data would debunk all sorts of myths? does not have such. But to stimulate in society, in the academic and creative environment, a serious detailed response to all kinds of falsifications, to mobilize information resources for this - this is where the Commission can help. The task is more than relevant, because not only in historiography, but already in the official policy of a number of states, history is used as a powerful ideological tool for forming the most disgusting image of Russia - as an enemy of the whole world and a demon of world history.
The falsifying attitude to the history of our Russia is not a modern manifestation. Back in the 17th century Catherine I the Great far-sightedly remarked: “There is no people about which so many lies and slander would be invented as about the Russian people.” Falsifications, lies and distortions of history sometimes border on racism, chauvinism, Nazism. It is worth recalling that the Soviet Information Bureau published scientifically based materials "Falsifiers of History".
For example, we can refer to the publication that exposed the collection of reports and various entries from the diaries of Hitler's diplomatic officials, published by the State Department of the United States of America in cooperation with the British and French Foreign Ministries, providing this collection with the mysterious title "Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941. » .
It is possible to fight falsifications of historical facts, first of all, by professional source study analysis, attraction and discovery of new documents. Emotions, namely, they overwhelmed those who agreed and those who disagreed, the prosecution and the defense, together with the chairman of the court session that went on for half a year on the fifth channel of television, the historical talk show "Court of Time" - a bad and unacceptable method in the search for historical truth. History requires a conceptual approach. At the same time, historian Igor Shumeiko, the author of the bestseller World War II. Reloading”, applying precisely the conceptual approach to the knowledge of the falsification of history, argues that today the struggle against falsifications, for the truth of history has actually moved into the sphere of interpretations, interpretations of facts.
Quite rightly noted. The Commission for Combating Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia’s Interests, which was first established under the President of the Russian Federation, includes 28 people: the head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation - the chairman of the Commission, the deputy chairmen of the Commission - the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the assistant to the Head of the Presidential Administration, the executive secretary of the Commission - the head Department of the Office of the President for Domestic Policy, members of the Commission - Head of the Office of the President for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Deputy Head of the Office of the President for Foreign Policy, Head of the Presidential Referent Office, Deputy Ministers of Justice, Culture, Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Director of the Department of the Ministry of Regional Development ( Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation), Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Education (Rosobrazovanie, under the Ministry of Education and Science), Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Science and Innovation ation (Rosnauka), Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEC of Russia), also Executive Secretary of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of State Secrets, Head of the Federal Archival Agency (Rosarchiv), Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) , Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, Head of the Federal Security Service of Russia, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, and also in agreement with the relevant structures - First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for the Commonwealth of Independent States and Relations with Compatriots, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Public Associations and Religious Organizations, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Commission on Interethnic Relations and Freedom of Conscience of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, President of the Foundation for the Study of Historical Perspective.
As you can see, the composition of the commission is more like an administrative structure. I agree that the presidential Commission against the falsification of history lacks a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church. First of all, due to the enormous role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the entire life of Russia and its people, as well as compatriots abroad, and taking into account the ongoing falsification of church history. To a large extent, and due to the fact that the former Patriarch Alexy II and the current Patriarch Kirill are the smartest people, in their sermons, in numerous appeals to the people, they always rely on deep, reliable historical knowledge.
Although the creation of the Commission to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia’s Interests caused a controversial attitude among the public, including the scientific community, and me too, I still don’t think about some kind of dictate, imposing unambiguous coverage of events and phenomena in the country’s history ( as it was during the preparation of the "Short course of the history of the CPSU (b)"). But hotheads, and Russia has never lacked them, can spoil any good deed. In the post-Ukrainian time, one fact is still known - a letter from the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences:
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES DIVISION OF HISTORICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES 119991 GSP-1, Moscow V-334 Leninsky prospect, 82-a, 938-17-63, fax 938-18-44 No. 14100-1255/119 23.06.09
Heads of the institutions of the Institute of Physical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences In accordance with the protocol decision of the Bureau of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences “On the tasks of the Institute of Physics of Philology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in connection with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 15, 2009, No. 549 “On the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation to counter attempts to falsify history to the detriment Interests of Russia”, please provide the Office with the following information:
1 An annotated list of historical and cultural falsifications in areas corresponding to the main activities of the institute (indicating the main sources, persons or organizations that form and disseminate falsification, the potential danger of this falsification to the interests of Russia, preliminary proposals for measures to scientifically refute the falsification).
2 Information about the activities of your institute's scientists in exposing falsifications and historical and cultural concepts that are detrimental to Russia's interests.
3 Contact person or list of researchers for participation in the work of the Commission of the Institute of Physical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the Analysis of Historical and Cultural Falsifications Harmful to the Interests of Russia (with phone numbers and email address). Please send the information to the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences by June 26, 2009. Sincerely, Deputy Academician-Secretary of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Academician VA Tishkov 50 51 . One cannot help but be wary that, following the federal commission, their own independent commissions began to be created in the regions. According to the press service of the governor of the Kurgan region, on July 30, 2009, the governor signed a decree on the formation of a working group to counter attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia's interests in the Trans-Urals.
According to the governor's order, the main tasks are to review materials on the history of Russia and refute false information. The working group is headed by the deputy governor - head of the apparatus of the Government of the Kurgan region. The provincial commission for combating falsifications includes heads of structural subdivisions of the regional government, scientists, professors, and representatives of public organizations. It was stipulated that the working group would meet quarterly.
How not to overdo it, especially since borscht is a favorite dish. The majority of Russians support the fight against the falsification of history. Indicative are the data of the initiative all-Russian survey conducted by VTsIOM shortly after the creation of the Russian Commission on June 6-7, 2009. 1600 people were surveyed in 140 settlements of 42 constituent entities of the Russian Federation - regions, territories and republics of Russia. The statistical error did not exceed 3.4%. According to the survey, 41% of respondents knew about the creation of the Commission to Counter Attempts to Falsify History, with 10% "well aware" of this, and 31% had heard of it. Muscovites (49%), highly educated respondents (54%) and supporters of Democrats (72%) showed the highest awareness. At the same time, more than half of the respondents heard about this measure for the first time from the interviewer (57%). The majority of those who were aware of the creation of the Commission (78%) positively assessed this step of the President of the Russian Federation, considering it a timely measure. This opinion was shared by residents of all settlements (80–82%), but least often in Moscow and St. Petersburg (58%). Supporters of United Russia and the Communist Party approved this measure (85% and 81% respectively). Only 10% of respondents believed that the Commission is an instrument of political struggle that will lead to a restriction of freedom of speech and will interfere with the work of historians. The proportion of such respondents is twice as high among Muscovites and Petersburgers (20%) and LDPR supporters (20%). 13% found it difficult to answer.
The survey participants believe that, first of all, the Great Patriotic War (34%) needs protection from falsification and distortion of history. Other historical events were mentioned less frequently: the October Revolution (6%), the Civil War, modern wars (Chechen, the conflict in South Ossetia), the history of the USSR and the years of Soviet power (3% each), repressions of the 30s, famine in Ukraine, perestroika and the personalities of the leaders (2% each), the Afghan war, the execution of the royal family and the reign of Nicholas II (1% each).
However, 12% believed that no historical events need protection from distortion. 37% found it difficult to answer 53 . “The commission would have aroused much more confidence if it consisted exclusively of reputable professional historians, whose arguments would be objectively established facts. Instead, we see many administrators and security officials there, whose “arguments” are an order and a club. However, such methods can only harm the historical truth.
This opinion should be kept in mind, but you can approach a friend. Of course, one cannot do without “authoritative professional historians” in separating falsification from truth, authenticity, but, as it seems to me, the Commission should involve specialists for in-depth argumentation of emerging questions of history, promote this research work itself and promote its results. Do not make noise, do not demonstrate yourself as an omniscient true in the last instance, as happened at the "Court of Time", but delve into the archives, double-check your memory, resort to the most important method in this case - content analysis. And this will in no way “turn into direct violations of the Constitution, which guarantees our citizens freedom of opinion.”
On the contrary, scientifically-research documented material will help citizens form their opinion and stick to it. But if the Commission is limited to scientists-historians, then it will “drown” in conflicting assessments and is unlikely to come to a consensus. And why only historians? One website is titled "Commission Against Falsification of History Promises Not to Rewrite Books or Train Scholars." Demonstrative wish or hint. In the design of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation, one can assume, on the one hand, liberalization in the field of historical research, on the other hand, the possibility of authoritarianism and a kind of "freezing" in this area. The second position is viewed more.
The title itself suggests this:“Commission to counter attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia's interests”, hence the admissibility of attempts to falsify history “in the interests of Russia” is logically seen, although this is only editorial tightrope walking, a matter of casuistry or sophistry. The meetings of the Commission were held on August 28, 2009, January 19 and September 7, 2010. 57 At the last meeting, reports were heard from the head of the Federal Archival Agency; Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control, Executive Secretary of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of State Secrets; Rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Chairman of the Board of the Russian Society of Historians and Archivists.
The discussion was attended by the director of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the rector of the state educational institution "Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation", the president of the Foundation for the Study of Historical Perspective, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Chairman State Duma Committee on Commonwealth of Independent States and Relations with Compatriots, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Public Associations and Religious Organizations, Chairman of the Commission on Interethnic Relations and Freedom of Conscience of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, Senior Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.
As you can see, administrative issues were considered, and, judging by the published information, there was no direct talk about the scientific aspects of the fight against falsification of history with specifics, at least the public was not informed about this. It should be said that state or public structures on the issues of history have been created in many countries. They fight falsifications in their understanding and create the conditions for falsifications in the direction they want. These are the “Commission of Historians under the President of Latvia” (there is an Advisor to the President of Latvia on the Commission of Historians 59), “The State Commission for Investigating the Repressive Policy of the Occupation Forces in Estonia”, the “Genocide and Resistance Center” in Lithuania 60 and others.
The Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance was established on May 31, 2006 as a central executive body with a special status. Its main tasks are to increase public attention to the history of Ukraine, to ensure a comprehensive study of the stages of the struggle for the restoration of the statehood of Ukraine in the 20th century, and to carry out activities to perpetuate the memory of participants in the national liberation struggle, victims of famines and political repressions. The Regulations on the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance were approved by government decree No. 927 dated July 5, 2006. According to the Regulations, the Institute organizes the implementation of legislative acts on issues within its competence, monitors their implementation, summarizes the practice of applying legislation, develops proposals for its improvement and in accordance with the established procedure submits them for consideration by the President and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
In addition, the Institute issues orders, organizes and controls their implementation, and, if necessary, together with other executive authorities, develops and adopts joint legal acts. The Institute is headed by the Chairman, who is appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers on the proposal of the Prime Minister. To discuss the most important areas of the Institute's activities and to coordinate the resolution of issues within its competence, a collegium is created at the Institute, consisting of the chairman, heads of structural divisions, representatives of factions and committees of the Verkhovna Rada, scientific and educational institutions and other persons interested in its activities. The activities of the Institute, in accordance with the instructions, are directed primarily to the popularization of objective and fair history in Ukraine and the world.
To fulfill this goal, the Institute prepares educational museum expositions, promotes the formation of museum and library funds, conducts scientific conferences, seminars, meetings and carries out publishing activities on the restoration and preservation of national memory, promotes the creation and development of public, in particular youth, patriotic organizations. The main purpose of the Institute of National Remembrance is the formation of national consciousness among the citizens of Ukraine.
The Lviv Center for Research of the Insurgent Movement is also known. In Poland, in accordance with the decision of the Parliament, the Institute of National Remembrance has been operating for two decades. It acquired properties that are not characteristic of a scientific institution, turned into a kind of "political police". The institute initiates court cases, accusing people of collaborating with "communist secret services", its employees act as prosecutors in trials.
The Institute of National Remembrance - the Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against the Polish People (INP) - is a state historical and archival institution that studies the activities of the state security agencies of Poland in the period 1944–1990, as well as the security agencies of the Third Reich and the USSR in order to investigate crimes against Polish citizens during this period, as well as the implementation of lustration procedures. The INP was established in accordance with the Law on the Institute of National Remembrance - Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against the Polish Nation of December 18, 1998.
In accordance with the Law, the functions of the INP include: accounting, accumulation, storage, processing, publication, ensuring the safety and access to documents of state security agencies of Poland for the period from July 22, 1944 to July 31, 1990, as well as security agencies of the Third Reich and the USSR concerning Nazi, communist and other crimes committed against persons of Polish nationality or Polish citizens of other nationalities in the period from September 1, 1939 to July 31, 1990, constituting crimes against peace, humanity or war crimes; other repressions for political reasons, carried out by officials of the Polish investigative bodies, justice or by persons acting on their instructions, investigation of these crimes, protection of personal data of persons who are related to documents collected in the archives of the INP, educational activities. The Law of the Republic of Poland of March 15, 2007 entrusted the Institute of National Remembrance with the implementation of lustration procedures in relation to Polish citizens who fall under the lustration law. The INP includes: a collegium, a president, the Main Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against the Polish Nation (part of the INP as the main investigative body), the Bureau for the Issuance and Archiving of Documents, the Public Education Bureau, the Lustration Bureau, 11 departments of the INP located in cities, which are the residences of the courts of appeal, 7 representations of departments. The chairman of the INP is elected by the Seimas for a five-year term.
At the end of September 2007, the website of the INP began publishing lists of citizens who collaborated with the state security agencies of the PPR. The publication is carried out in accordance with the “Law on Lustration” adopted on March 14, 2007 and will take at least six years. In addition to the name of each person, the files contain an undercover nickname, as well as details of his relationship with the special services. The first published list included the president and prime minister of Poland at that time, Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski (as dissidents who were being monitored), speakers of both houses of parliament, as well as members of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts. Despite the fact that clerics in Poland are not subject to lustration, Archbishop Stanisław Velgus, Metropolitan of Warsaw, was accused of collaborating with the Security Service based on materials from the INP.
A similar institution operates in Romania; its tasks include the collection and study of documents, their publication on the evolution of the communist regime. With the same name and similar goals, the Institute of National Remembrance was established in Slovakia. Neo-Nazi I. Petransky was appointed “Chief Historian” there, who believes that “the crimes of the Nazis have already been condemned enough, and the crimes of the Communists should be dealt with much more closely.” In Latvia, there is a commission of historians under the president of the country, which includes an assistant to the president (please note) for history. The Institute of Foreign Membership has been established in this country, the task of which is to provide officials with theses for "occupation" rhetoric and to present the topic of "crimes against humanity in Latvia during the Soviet and Nazi occupation" in the international arena. A Center for Documentation of the Consequences of Totalitarianism under the Bureau for the Protection of the Constitution was also created (propaganda of the theme of “atrocities of the NKVD-KGB”, concealment of the ties of the leadership of the Latvian special services with the fascist Abwehr and the SD).
In Latvia, where literally every lat counts, the reconstruction and development of the "Museum of the Occupation", which equates the Nazis with the soldiers-liberators, is financed from the funds of the "State Real Estate" enterprise. The museum covers the period of the country's history from 1940 to 1991, the main focus is on the Stalinist repressions. The exposition is divided into three stages: "The first year of the Soviet occupation (1940-1941)", "Occupation by Nazi Germany (1941-1944)", "Post-war Soviet occupation (1944-1991)". Portraits of Stalin and Hitler hang side by side. There are about 30 thousand documents in the museum's funds, traveling exhibitions are organized: for educational schools - "Latvia in 1939–1991: from occupation to freedom", for the European Parliament - "Latvia returns to Europe", for the USA - "Latvia returns to a free peace". The museum is an anti-Russian ideological center. In defiance of the St. George's Ribbon campaign, an action "For Latvian Latvia" was held at the Museum of Occupation, instead of the "St. George's Ribbon" - a symbol of victory over fascism, red-white-red ribbons were distributed according to the colors of the Latvian flag.
In Lithuania, a similar activity is carried out by the Center for Genocide and Resistance, which is a department under the Cabinet of Ministers, its director is approved by the Seimas on the proposal of the Prime Minister. Just like in the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, the Lithuanian Center has a Department of Special Investigations. In Estonia, the period of the “Soviet occupation” is being investigated by the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against Humanity under the President of the Republic, the Center for Research on the Soviet Period, the Estonian Bureau of the Register of the Repressed, the KistlerRitso Foundation, as well as the State Commission for Investigating the Repressive Policy of the Occupation Forces. This commission prepared a "White Paper on the Losses Caused to the People of Estonia by the Occupations", which served as the basis for a large-scale anti-Russian campaign, as well as for putting forward demands on Russia to "repair the damage caused by the occupation."
In May 2008, the Foundation for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism began its work in Estonia. In the Republic of Moldova, the leadership initiated the creation of a commission for the study and evaluation of the totalitarian communist regime, the purpose of which is to represent the communist crime on an equal footing with Nazism. Georgian President MN Saakashvili announced the establishment in the near future of a Commission to establish the historical truth and facts of Russia's 200-year policy towards Georgia.
The commission will be headed by PhD student of the University of Cambridge Vasil Rukhadze and expert Tornike Sharashenidze. Politicians go beyond all limits and disregard the beliefs of their fellow citizens and world public opinion. This is clearly seen in the example of S. Bandera. Many Ukrainian political parties and public organizations spoke out against the glorification of Nazism in his person, representatives of the Slovak public called it a provocation, condemnation was expressed in the Office of the President of Poland, the largest Jewish human rights organization Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed indignation at the decree on Bandera, signed on the day when the world commemorated the victims of the Holocaust. Even the European Parliament recommended that the leadership of Ukraine reconsider the decision to award the title of Hero of Ukraine to Bandera.
Naturally, the new, fourth President of Ukraine, Viktor Fedorovich Yanukovych, canceled this shameful act. In terms of our research, it is of interest not just V. Yushchenko's misunderstanding of the absurdity of defending his decree, defending his actions, but also the methods that he used. The statement of Our Ukraine leader V. Yushchenko said that the decision of the Donetsk District Administrative Court on the unlawfulness of awarding the title of Hero to Stepan Bandera testifies to the government’s course towards confrontation in society, he called on the new president V. Yanukovych to understand his responsibility and take measures to prevent the revision decisions about honoring Ukrainian heroes. Yushchenko believes that such "provocative technologies" are especially cynical on the eve of the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War (in fact, Yushchenko himself is defiantly cynical). “It is the replication of imperial clichés that serves exclusively to split, and not to unite society, the real heroism, complexity and tragedy of the Ukrainian fate in the 20th century are hidden behind false splendor.”
According to Yushchenko, Bandera was and remains a hero for millions of Ukrainians. “Decades of repression and the efforts of Soviet propaganda could not prevent this popular recognition. The disclosure of archives, the work of historians are helping ever wider circles of society to understand the role of this person - Stepan Bandera entered the top three of the national rating “Great Ukrainians”. “The authorities are trying to hide behind a court decision… The formally adopted decision on an inherently political issue once again demonstrates the problem of Ukrainian justice. We have another example of the involvement of the judiciary in the political struggle. But no legal casuistry can mislead society and will not relieve the current government of responsibility for taking such a step. This decision was pre-programmed by the commitments made in Moscow.” Yushchenko switched to direct blackmail, psychological pressure on the new president of Ukraine.
V. Yushchenko relies on the president's duty to rally society around national interests, despite current political calculations or ambitions of neighbors. "I call on President Viktor Yanukovych to realize his responsibility and take all the opportunities provided by law to prevent the revision of decisions on honoring Ukrainian heroes." V. Yushchenko called on the national democratic political forces and all patriots to take an active public position in defense of “real history and all the heroes who fought for a free, conciliar and independent Ukrainian state.” What perseverance in defense of an anti-hero, a traitor to the interests of the Ukrainian and Soviet peoples! France has a law on historians, the so-called historical law.
There is a company of French historians. French President Nicolas Sarkozy 80 believes that it is necessary to pursue a certain policy in the field of history development: “We need a history that we should be proud of. Stop repenting for the fact that France behaved differently in this or that issue: in Algeria, extradited Jews during the Holocaust, and so on. Stop repenting” 81 . How necessary these words are in relation to the development of Russian history! In the program “Vis-a-vis with the world”, the director of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Oganovich Chubaryan cited interesting facts: in order to stop the attempts of the French Ministry of Education to remove everything that denigrates French colonialism from textbooks, a special decision of the Senate was needed, and at the meeting The Council of Europe in Istanbul handed out a document of as many as 20 pages, recommending exactly how certain events of European history should be interpreted.
In addition to research structures, a whole network of “occupation museums” plays an important role in rewriting history. In Lithuania, this is the "Museum of the Genocide", in Georgia - the "Museum of the Occupation", in Ukraine - the "Museum of the Soviet Occupation of Ukraine". In the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States of the CIS and the Baltic States, they began to adhere to a nation-centric approach to historical education, which is based on anti-Soviet and anti-communist ideas, which eventually grew into anti-Russian ones. The falsified revision of pre-revolutionary and Soviet history has led to the fact that the history of Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine is presented as a centuries-old struggle of these countries for independence, national histories are painted with nationalist perversions, Russia is portrayed as the main culprit of troubles and upheavals.
In the modern perspective of the history of independent states - the former union republics of the Soviet Union, issues of sovereignty have acquired an exceptional sound, far exceeding real independence - economic and political. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) at its 18th annual session on July 3, 2009 adopted a resolution that completely equalized the responsibility of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in unleashing World War II. Among other things, it says: “In the twentieth century, European countries experienced two powerful totalitarian regimes, Nazi and Stalin, which carried with them genocide, violations of human rights and freedoms, war crimes and crimes against humanity.” The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly expressed "deep concern about the glorification of totalitarian regimes, including the holding of public demonstrations to commemorate the Nazi or Stalinist past, as well as the possible spread and strengthening of various extremist movements and groups" 85 .
Thus, anti-fascists are equated with the fascists who stopped the conveyor of death in Auschwitz - with the architects of Auschwitz. In April 2010, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution "On the need for international condemnation of crimes committed by totalitarian communist regimes", which actually equalizes fascism and communism. The European Parliament called on Russia to enter into a dialogue with the "democratic countries" of Eastern Europe on the problems of the history of the twentieth century. The attempts being made to put on the same level, to equate Soviet power with Nazi Germany, are being made not for the sake of establishing historical truth, but quite the opposite. In the current situation, the efforts of the Russian diasporas could become an obstacle to the falsification of history.
In June 2010, the International Youth Forum "Youth against falsification of the history of the Second World War and the glorification of Nazi criminals and their accomplices" was held in Riga, which was held on the initiative of the International Association of Youth Organizations of Russian Compatriots (MAMORS), the Moscow Compatriot House and with the support of the Government Commission for Compatriots Abroad (PCDSR), the Government of Moscow, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Latvia, the Moscow Cultural and Business Center - "House of Moscow" in Riga, the public organization "May 9.lv" and the Multinational Center of Culture for Children and Youth in Riga. Riga. The Forum received a greeting from the Chairman of the Presidium of the International Council of Russian Compatriots Count P. P. Sheremetev: “Your bright aspirations to search for the truth inspire a sense of respect and gratitude. I am sure that the honor and dignity of your great-grandfathers and grandfathers - the heroes who saved the world from the “brown plague”, as well as the baton of historical memory passed on by the older generation, will be preserved.”
The Forum participants listened to the report “Youth against the falsification of the history of the Second World War”, as well as speeches by experts from the field on the topics: “On the falsification of the history of Latvia: causes, content, methods of counteraction” (V. I. Gushchin, Director of the Baltic Center for Historical and Social political research, Latvia), “Estonia in World War II: historical retrospection and futurological reconstruction” (I. Nikiforov, journalist, historian, political scientist, Estonia), “Information war against youth, falsification of the history of the Great Patriotic War” (N. Sokolov, Lithuania), etc. There was a round table “What can young people do to counter the falsification of history?”.
The discussion was devoted to a comprehensive discussion of the problems of falsifying the history of the Second World War, identifying the main directions of misinformation of the younger generation of modern society, clarifying the reasons for the distortion of the meaning of the events of the war period, and developing arguments to expose the falsifiers of history. An important result of the Forum was the intensification of the efforts of young compatriots abroad in the fight against manifestations in political circles and in modern society, including among the youth, the glorification of Nazi criminals and their accomplices, cases of xenophobia and intolerance. The Forum included a trip to Salaspils, a death camp on the territory of Nazi-occupied Latvia during World War II, intended for the mass extermination of people. For the participants of the forum, who are 15-18 years old, the trip to Salaspils caused an emotional shock /
It must be admitted that there have always been enough people who wanted to correct it, in this sense the call: “Leave it to the historians” is very relevant today. Politics should not play opportunistic games with historical science. As the ancient philosopher said: “A word can refute any word, but how can you refute life?” Note that according to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, falsification (late Latin falsificatio, from falsifico - I fake) is called: 1) malicious, deliberate distortion of data, deliberately misinterpreting something. 2) change with a mercenary purpose of the type or properties of objects; fake. Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia contains the following definition: falsification or rewriting of history - a deliberate distortion of historical events.
Free Russian encyclopedia "Tradition": falsification of history - intentional or accidental changes in the description of historical events, historical falsifications 90 . Website "Science": Falsification of history - a false description of historical events for the sake of a preconceived idea; the goals and motives of historical falsifications can be very diverse: to secure the historical right to a certain territory for this or that people, to justify the legitimacy of the ruling dynasty, to justify the succession of the state in relation to one or another historical predecessor, to “ennoble” the process of ethnogenesis, etc.
Professor of History Alexander Anatolyevich Danilov gives the following definition of falsification of history: Falsification is a deliberate and sometimes malicious distortion of historical facts and events, their interpretation in favor of some position. It must be understood that any scientific point of view is an interpretation of events based on a set of facts. But if a person takes a certain conclusion as a basis, and then selects from the whole variety of historical facts and events only those that confirm it, there is an obvious falsification 92 . It should also be noted that in most cases, not falsification is used, but insinuations (from Latin insinuatio, literally - insinuation) with malicious fiction and slanderous fabrication in order to discredit someone (this is also TSB).
Falsification is a deliberate distortion of historical events or historical myth-making, when facts that did not take place appear in a historical work. The goals of falsifications are varied: ideological, political, opportunistic. At the same time, distortions and falsifications can be unconscious due to the lack of sources, the low professional level of the researcher, the inertia of a certain historical school with accumulated stereotypes, biases, and much more. But even these factors cannot justify distortions in the coverage of history or some phenomenon.
Turning to scientific tools will minimize the flaws that are inevitable in historical science, the study of any historical plot requires a multifactorial approach, various facts and phenomena should be recruited - only in this case distortions can be avoided. The most famous are all kinds of distortions of quoted or paraphrased texts. An illustrative example is the distortion of V. I. Lenin's thought about the possibility of the participation of a cook in government. In "Will the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?" he wrote: “We are not utopians. We know that any unskilled worker and any cook are not capable of immediately entering into government.
On this we agree with the Cadets, and with Breshkovskaya, and with Tsereteli. But we differ from these citizens in that we demand an immediate break with the prejudice that only rich officials or officials taken from rich families can govern the state, carry out the everyday, daily work of government. We demand that public administration be taught by conscious workers and soldiers, and that it be started immediately, i.e., all working people, all the poor, should immediately be involved in this training. This thesis has acquired a textbook sound, but quite often it is said that Lenin allegedly claimed that "the cook is ready to rule the state ...". “For Lenin, as for a classical revolutionary, the main thing was the idea, and the country, the people - only the material, the means.
Let millions die, but we will remake the world! I use the NTV screensaver - "You won't believe it!". This idea of V. I. Lenin is conveyed by a well-known person in society (by the way, a member of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation to counter attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia's interests), Natalia Alekseevna Narochnitskaya, who respects herself very much, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta - Weeks on on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution. “My father, who survived all periods of repression, recalled that the Lenin era was worse than Stalin’s. Under Lenin, they not only shot, but also called Alexander Nevsky a class enemy, Napoleon - a liberator, Tchaikovsky - a squishy man, Chekhov - a whiner, and Tolstoy - a landowner, foolish in Christ ... ". From the same source. No comment.
Today in the world, and Russia is no exception, everything is talentedly and grossly falsified - culture and science, art and literature, morality and morality, medicines and products.
Distortion of history is a major theme in modern information warfare. On the eve of the celebration of the 68th anniversary of the Victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War, a rabid lie is again gaining momentum, the purpose of which is to nullify the unprecedented feat of our soldiers. Attempts to revise the results of the Second World War are carried out at the highest level.
The bigger the lie, the more likely it will be believed.
J. Goebbels.
Distortion of history is a major theme in modern information warfare. On the eve of the celebration of the 68th anniversary of the Victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War, a rabid lie is again gaining momentum, the purpose of which is to nullify the unprecedented feat of our soldiers. Attempts to revise the results of the Second World War are carried out at the highest level. On July 3, 2009, the European Parliament adopted a resolution “On the reunification of divided Europe”, according to which August 23, the day of the signing of the non-aggression pact between the USSR and Germany (the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), is proposed to be considered the day of remembrance of the “victims of Nazism and Stalinism”.
As if there were no attempts by the USSR to enter into an alliance with Great Britain and France, which they refused, pushing Hitler to aggression in the East. As if, as a result of the forced pact, Russia did not receive additional time to prepare for the inevitable war and additional space 300 km from the transfer of the state border. Denying the obvious, inventing the most incredible explanations for long-known facts, is a favorite style of falsifiers of any level.
Their goal is the same: to fill the heads of ill-informed people with ersatz rubbish about how Stalin was preparing an attack on Germany, but nothing came of it, that’s why he didn’t gallop on a dashing horse across Red Square, but sprinkled ashes on his head on the podium of the mausoleum, until Americans successfully solved their geopolitical tasks in Europe.
"Hotter than the Pope"
Surprisingly, such nonsense is spread not only by Western "historians" and their fugitive sing-alongs. Voluptuously mock at the shrines of their people and our compatriots. Moreover, if Western “historians” are only trying to share the responsibility for unleashing the Second World War between Germany and Russia, then our biased “specialists”, weighed down by personal frustrations and the archetypal acquisitiveness of Western grants, go even further, blaming Russia exclusively for the start of the war.
A man-“icebreaker” V. Rezun, a former KGB defector, who brazenly appropriated the glorious surname “Suvorov”, writes a lot about the “so-called Great Patriotic War”. Other pseudo-sufferers of historical truth echo him - G. Popov, K. Aleksandrov, B. Sokolov, I. Chubais, D. Winter, etc. Referring to "a number of scientists", and in fact, echoing the "genius" of fascist propaganda Goebbels, they blame the USSR in preparing an attack on Germany, they are trying to belittle the importance of the Soviet-German front in the defeat of fascism and the liberation of Europe from the Nazi yoke.
Inside view
The interpretation of historical events always depends on the point of view. You can juggle facts and figures for a long time. When the flow of facts dries up, it is easy to refer to "closed archives". The inconsistency of the attempts of the falsifiers of the history of the Great Patriotic War becomes obvious if we consider historical events in the context of the properties of the mental unconscious. The system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan convincingly shows that the eight-dimensional matrix of the mental unconscious works not only at the level of an individual, but also at the level of states.
The given properties of the collective psyche underlie the mentality of the people, determining their picture of the world and ways of interacting with it. The contrast between the urethral-muscular mentality of Russia and the skin mentality of Europe explains the many "miracles" of our common history. The victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War is a victory in the struggle of worldviews (mentalities). It convincingly testifies to the superiority of mercy over cruelty, selflessness over egocentrism, natural bestowal over the archetypal desire to appropriate someone else's, the spiritual feat of including the desires and aspirations of all mankind over the sick sound idea of world domination.
Everything for victory
Juggling the facts in their own interests, the falsifiers of the history of the Great Patriotic War are talking about the fact that the price of the victory of the USSR was so great that it is just right to consider this victory "Pyrrhic", that is, a defeat. The prudence of the Western mentality, the desire to set a price for everything and avoid unpredictability in any way does not allow skin individualists to accept the urethral value system, when not something, but everything is sacrificed for the sake of preserving the whole. When it comes to preserving the integrity of the country, "we are not behind the price." Our enemies have never been happy with that.
An idea about the identity of the Soviet social system and Nazi ideology, communism and fascism stuck in my teeth. This nonsense, designed for complete denseness, even penetrated textbooks (“History of Russia. XX century: 1939-2007”, “Astrel” and “AST” in 2009, edited by A. B. Zubov), where in the title itself chapter "Soviet-Nazi War" already concluded the position of the authors: two dictators, two totalitarian regimes fought for world domination! The fact that only one person needed world domination - Hitler, who was sick in sound and frustrated in anality, was a moral degenerate Hitler, that the Soviet side honestly observed the terms of the peace treaty with Germany, is simply hushed up. Silence is a powerful weapon of falsification, as is an appeal to unimportant facts while ignoring essential ones.
The myth of the Geneva Convention
You can often hear the myth about Stalin's non-signing of the Hague Convention and the Geneva "Agreement on the Treatment of Prisoners of War", they say, that's why the Nazis treated our prisoners this way. According to statistics, only 13% of Germans did not return to their homeland from Soviet captivity, 58% of prisoners died in fascist dungeons. Is the reason for such a terrible difference in the unsigned contract? Of course not.
Tsarist Russia, like Kaiser Germany, signed the Hague Convention on the Laws of War on Land as early as 1907. By the Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars of June 4, 1918, it was announced that “international conventions and agreements relating to the Red Cross, recognized by Russia before October 1915, are recognized and will be observed by the Russian Soviet Government, which retains all rights and prerogatives based on these conventions and agreements.
And although in 1929 the USSR did not accede to the Geneva Convention "On the Treatment of Prisoners of War" (we were against the separation of prisoners of war on a national basis), already in 1931 the USSR People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs announced that the USSR had acceded to the 1929 convention, about which the German government the moment of the beginning of the war could not be known. The myth that the USSR was outside the rules stipulated by the Geneva Convention, which means that anything could be done with Soviet prisoners of war, is nothing more than a “duck” of fascist propaganda, zealously supported by falsifiers of all stripes.
Moreover, all countries that signed the Geneva Convention, including Germany, assumed the duty of humane treatment of prisoners, regardless of whether their countries signed the convention or not. Another thing is that long before the start of the war, German fascism set itself the goal of the complete destruction and enslavement of "racially inferior" peoples. Thus clearing the living space for the "Aryan" nation, the Nazis placed themselves outside the law.
How could this happen on the basis of the skin mentality of the Germans with their love of law and order? How could an entire nation "go mad"? System-vector psychology helps to answer this question.
When the sick sound dominates
The sick idea of a superman, in the service of which millions of Untermensch-“sub-humans” should be placed, has found solid support in a frustrated large part of the German population, who is experiencing the strongest resentment for life. An anal man, deadlocked in resentment, always wants to "level the square", and it is better if this happens at the expense of those who are to blame for the injustices towards him. The culprits were found - Untermenschi, primarily Jews and Slavs, communists. Both the anal of individual unrealized citizens and the skin desire for revenge of the entire German nation after the predatory Treaty of Versailles for Germany concentrated on them.
The urethral-muscular mentality is really inaccessible to skin understanding. There is a restriction in the skin - and the urethra sees no boundaries, in the skin there is discipline - and the urethra is self-willed, there is no skin ambition in it, which is perceived by the skin mentality as laziness or indifference. The urethral-muscular mentality of Russia opposes natural bestowal and catholicity, the primacy of the collective "we" over "I" - the last letter in the Russian alphabet - to European skin individualism, the desire to rebuild the whole world from itself and for itself.
The humility and long-suffering of peasant muscular Russia are deceptive. In a state of war, the Russians slowly but inevitably mobilize and become invincible, as the muscle army takes on the properties of urethral commanders. An army of urethral leaders arises, invincible by skin regular units. So it was under Alexander Nevsky, so was the answer to Karl of Sweden, so we fought in the Patriotic War of 1812, and in the Civil War, and in the First Imperialist War. This mechanism was repeated during the Great Patriotic War against Nazi fascism. The mentality of the people is a stable formation, reinforced by the properties of the mental unconscious.
Show me how to die for my motherland
By the time the War began, the USSR remained 66% a peasant country. The response of the muscular people to the invasion of a deeply alien, high-tech, well-oiled military machine of Nazi Germany into its borders was an internal irresistible desire at all costs to defend their land from strangers who take away their daily bread, the opportunity to live and work on their land. In such an environment, the exploits of individual urethral heroes immediately became massive. And the point here is not only and not so much in propaganda and not at all in coercion, as the liars from the “alternative history” of the Great Patriotic War are trying to prove. The mass heroism of the Soviet people was an internal response of the muscular psychic unconscious to a clear example of the urethral giving of one's life for the sake of saving the life of all.
The first feat, which later received the name of Alexander Matrosov, which, due to circumstances, was learned earlier, was accomplished by the political instructor of the tank company Alexander Pankratov already at the end of the summer of 1941. Politruk Pankratov closed the enemy firing point with his body, having "purchased" from the enemy with his life a few seconds to advance a part and a dozen lives of fellow soldiers. In total, during the Great Patriotic War, 403 soldiers repeated the feat of Pankratov-Matrosov, and these are only officially known facts.
“There are cases when, under the impression of a feat just accomplished in the same battle, both a second and a third were accomplished ... So, in one of the battles with the Nazis, Sergeant Ivan Gerasimenko, privates Alexander Krasilov and Leonty Cheremnov closed the enemy's machine-gun embrasures. Group feats were performed by Soviet soldiers P. L. Gutchenko and A. L. Pekalchuk, I. G. Voilokov and A. D. Strokov, N. P. Zhuikov and F. N. Mazilin, N. A. Vilkov and P. I. Ilyichev.
On the very first day of the war, June 22, 1941, the flight commander of the 62nd Fighter Aviation Regiment, Senior Lieutenant Pyotr Chirkin, sent his burning plane into a cluster of German tanks. On June 27, 1941, on the second day after the death of Nikolai Gastello, the commander of the 21st bomber air unit, Lieutenant Dmitry Tarasov, in the Lvov region, hit the invaders' motorized column with his burning car. On June 29, 1941, on the territory of Belarus, his bomber blew up in a large tank column of the Nazis, the deputy squadron commander of the 128th bomber aviation regiment, senior lieutenant Isaac Preseizen. On July 4, 1941, Captain Lev Mikhailov rammed German tanks with his burning plane. Cases are known when two and three air-ground fire rams were carried out in one sortie of a bomber group.
Examples of mass heroism in the Great Patriotic War can be cited endlessly. During the defense of Moscow and Leningrad, in the battles on the Volga and the Kursk Bulge, during the liberation of the countries of Eastern Europe, in battles with the Japanese militarists, people of different nationalities, religions, social origin and education, united in a single Soviet people, without hesitation, sacrificed their lives for the sake of peace on earth. But it is precisely the exploits of the first days of the war that clearly illustrate the complete failure of attempts to attribute the heroism of the Soviet people to propaganda and coercion. Even if he wanted to, "bloody Stalinism" would not have had time to either force or fool - it was the first, natural, unconscious reaction of people to an attempt to take away their home, homeland, country.
Conclusion
The deheroization of Soviet soldiers is accompanied by the praise of traitors to the motherland, attempts to revise the decisions of the Nuremberg trials. Analysis of many individual facts of falsification of the history of the Great Patriotic War goes far beyond the scope of this article. Thanks to the systemic psychoanalysis of Yuri Burlan, one can easily see the falsity of any fabrications and their true purpose, no matter how the falsifiers hide behind the desire for “objectivity”.
The purpose of falsifying the history of Russia is the desire to divide our people along far-fetched national and / or religious lines. The enemies of our country would like to see us repenting of non-existent sins, because it is so easy to make very specific territorial and material claims under this case. The purpose of the modern information war against Russia is to destroy the urethral mentality of our people, destroy its values, turn it into a driven herd, obediently consuming low-grade goods of someone else's overproduction.
Each individual fake is not worth a penny and is easily refuted by facts. Penetrating into textbooks and the media, the falsification of the history of the Great Patriotic War can cause irreparable harm to the younger generation, and this is its main danger to the future of the country. Systemic psychoanalysis shows that, in addition to specific historical facts that can be manipulated, ignored or hushed up, there is a basic mental structure that explains the impossibility of certain events in reality, no matter how beautifully and convincingly they are presented for someone's momentary benefit.
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Proofreader: Natalia Konovalova
The article was written based on the materials of the training " System-Vector Psychology»When signing a non-aggression pact between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The so-called "secret additional protocol" to the Soviet-German non-aggression pact, which entered publicistic use under the name "Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact".
This protocol will be kept strictly secret by both parties.
The falsification of the history of the Great Patriotic War comes from the Russian authorities. The authorities cover up their crimes with these falsifications.
| Medvedev created a body of supervision over historical science. When Putin became president in May 2000, a memorial plaque in memory of war heroes was opened in the Kremlin, the first number on which was Stalin's name. This was a falsification, and it came from the authorities, from Putin, and not from society. Now the authorities are trying to shut the mouth of society, independent experts, historians, journalists, public figures, organizations such as Memorial, which rightly remind of the criminal nature of the Stalinist regime in general and of its crimes during the Great Patriotic War in particular. And in the composition of this notorious commission there are those who are engaged in these falsifications: for example, the director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrei Nikolaevich Sakharov, himself a former special officer, KGB officer. And the falsification will continue already from the Kremlin. And it's really sad. Irina Karatsuba, Associate Professor, Moscow State University |
| The commission included people from the Foreign Ministry, the FSB, the SVR and the Security Council. If the problems of Russian history are dealt with by the FSB or the SVR, this, of course, is cool. One can guess in which direction they will look for falsifications. Under the guise of national interests, the interests of one social group will be presented, which is pursuing a policy of justifying the Soviet regime, whitewashing it and, in particular, rehabilitating Stalin. We see this in many examples, and this commission will deal with the same policy. The trend is definitely unsympathetic. Nikita Sokolov, editor of the "Society" section of The New Times magazine I view this initiative as stupidity. Of course, our president is the guarantor of everything, but I did not know that our president is also the guarantor of historical truth. He, along with his administration, wants to convince everyone that they know better what unfalsified history is. The authorities in our country are the main falsifier of history, since they cover up their crimes with these falsifications. Now they are creating a commission that will cover falsifications with all the power of state resources. You can only add that this stupidity is totalitarian. They seek to impose their authoritarian regime everywhere, and it expands to a totalitarian one. They want to control minds, and this commission is proof of that. |
| In this decree on the creation of the commission, everything would be fine if not for one addition in the title. I will even specifically repeat the name separately: "On the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation to counter attempts to falsify history ...". This is the first part of the title and I take it with both hands. Indeed, what could be better than countering the falsification that the Soviet authorities have been committing for almost 90 years. What could be better than searching for the truth. After all, these are, finally, completely open archives. These are declassified protocols. These are named names. This recognition of the Soviet annexation of the Baltic countries on the eve of the war is precisely the annexation, and the massacre of Polish officers in Katyn is precisely the massacre. Probably, critics of the official version of Soviet history, and not only Soviet, but also Russian, will finally be heard, and what they say will be analyzed. Now we will finally learn the truth about the Chechen war, we will be called by name the criminals who plunged the country not only into the first Chechen, but also into the second, and not only from the Chechen side ... Cool down, gentlemen, in your dreams. I read the continuation of the title: "... to counter the falsification of history to the detriment of Russia's interests." “The concert is over,” as the entertainer Boris Brunov said. Now we know that there is not only "sovereign democracy", but also the search for the true truth, in favor of one side. I do not want to comment on this legislative nonsense anymore, I will only observe the law enforcement part of this miracle document with a cheerful smile. Of course, it is clear to the horse that the presidents will not be arrested. Yes, and it was not written for them, but for ours, who, painfully, actively began to dig the truth. I don't know why Dmitry Medvedev signed this incredible paper in such a way. I only know that he signed a paper that will never be executed. Because there is no truth in favor of one country, and you can't shut anyone up. As for Roy Medvedev, who is a historian, it would be good for him to re-read Orwell again. “Peace is war, war is peace. The truth is a lie, the lie is the truth." Poor Russia 2009! Matvey Ganapolsky, "Echo of Moscow" |
Falsification of history - deliberate or accidental changes in the description of historical events, historical falsifications.
In particular, the Soviet era is characterized by massive historical falsifications designed to belittle (or, conversely, elevate) the role of certain individuals in the revolutionary struggle that preceded the Great October Socialist Revolution, during the Civil War and the establishment of Soviet power, and also later - the role of those or other military, party and state leaders during the Great Patriotic War.
A special variety of historical falsifications includes historical (pseudo-historical) reconstructions, designed to secure the historical right of a particular people to a certain territory, to justify the legitimacy of a particular ruling dynasty, to justify the succession of a particular state in relation to a particular historical predecessor, "ennoble the process of ethnogenesis.
Historical examples
Ivan the Terrible
One of the first documented cases of falsification of history for political reasons in Russia refers to the reign of Ivan the Terrible. At the direction of the king, the "Facial Vault" was written - a complete record of history from ancient times to the present day. In the last volume (the so-called "synodal list"), it was already told about the reign of Ivan the Terrible himself. In it, the tsar personally made edits in which the governors and boyars, who fell out of favor with the tsar, were accused of various unseemly acts. According to some assumptions, the boyar rebellion of 1533, described only in the synodal list, but not mentioned in any other written source, was also completely invented.
Stalin
In Stalin's times, along with the physical destruction of party, army and cultural figures, their names were also erased in various historical sources (books, textbooks, encyclopedias, photographs). Stalin also rewrote more distant history, such as the history of the reigns of Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great. Stalin himself was placed in historical plots in which he actually did not participate. Historians and cultural figures were engaged in similar falsifications.
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich
The rewriting of history during the Brezhnev era was indecisive and petty. So, they could not solve the question of how to represent the historical role of Stalin, the existence of Khrushchev was hushed up, and heroic merits were attributed to Brezhnev himself as a military and economic figure (as well as a writer). Basically, the events of the present and the concealment of the true actions of his predecessors in the party were distorted.
Here I posted some replicas from the Internet
| In general, under the conditions of declared and obligatory state truth, it is much easier to "falsify" (in the sense of Popper), such is the property of the human psyche. This was before the internet. I remember that in the fall of 1979, on the anniversary of the Pact, Soviet newspapers of 40 years ago were read aloud on the BBC (not secret materials!) I still have reels with a transparent flight Type-2 on the mezzanine - a complete record of those programs. The effect on everyone who heard it was amazing. And then the readings for the winter of 1939-40 (Winter War) began, and in real life the Afghan war unfolded - and from the TV "fulfilling the request of the Afghan people ...", and from the radio "fulfilling the request of the Finnish workers." Super. Then the authorities realized it and turned on the jammers (before that they jammed only Svoboda and, occasionally, Kol Yisrael). So the last coils go under the crackling of the OSNAZ Air Defense Troops transmitters. And what is even more convincingly falsified :-) So I really hope that these dodiks will give us another fat gift - some kind of IP filtering in the spirit of the Chinese Communists. Since they are hardly smarter than Andropov, there is every hope. |
| Original German archival documents on relations between Nazi Germany and the USSR were published in the 1950s. in Akten zur Deutschen Auswärtigen Politik, 1918-1945, Serie D (1.9.37-11.12.41) (there is also an English edition for series D under the title Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945, from the archives of the German Foreign Ministry, published by the US Department of State, in collaboration with the British Foreign Office and the French government); and also partly in the Staatsmänner und Diplomaten bei Hitler. Vertrauliche Aufzeichnungen über Unterredungen mit Vertretern des Auslandes, Volume 1 (1939-1941). For the first time these documents (or, in any case, most of them) were published by the US State Department as early as 1948, in the collection of documents Nazi Soviet Relations, 1939 - 1941, Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Office (eds. Raymond James Sontag and James Stuart Beddie, Department of State Publication 3023, US Department of State, 1948, Government Printing Office, Washington. D.C., 1948. This collection is on the net - this is the same edition as the title link, but in a more readable form. Soviet edition (I did not verify how complete): Subject to disclosure. USSR-Germany. 1939-1941. Documents and materials, M. 1991; Since 1995, documents from the former Soviet archives confirming the accuracy of the content of German archival documents. (I was not interested in their bibliography and content, but a synopsis of these published documents is summarized by Geoffrey Jukes in the afterword to Boris Slavinsky, "The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact: A Diplomatic History 1941-1945", Nissan Institute / Routledge Curzon Japanese Studies Series, Routledge , 2004, p. 192.) Somewhat earlier, a Soviet transcript of the Soviet-Nazi Berlin negotiations in November 1940 was also published: "V.M. Molotov's trip to Berlin in November 1940." // Modern and Contemporary History, No. 5, 1993 (Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ed. "Nauka", Moscow), pp. 64-99. On the volume of Soviet assistance to Nazi Germany in the conduct of the war against the allies in 1940-41: On Soviet-Nazi naval cooperation, including the provision by the USSR to Nazi Germany of a naval base on the Kola Peninsula intended for German submarine operations against the British and American fleets (the Soviet government also allowed the Germans to bring an American ship captured by the Germans to Basis Nord), for the invasion to Norway (only one ship, the Basis Nord, participated in the latter), and the opening of the northern sea route for German raiders: Tobias R. Philbin, "The lure of Neptune: German-Soviet naval collaboration and ambitions, 1919-1941", University of South Carolina Press, 1994. Provision of diplomatic support for the USSR by Germany in the conduct of the "winter" war against Finland, as well as the participation of the German Navy in the supply of the Soviet fleet blockading the coast of Finland - elsewhere. |
Here, incidentally, "touching" from the memoirs of Speer:
On September 29, Ribbentrop returned from Moscow from the second Moscow meeting with the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty, which secured the fourth partition of Poland. At Hitler's table, he said that he had never felt so good as among Stalin's employees: "As if I were among the old partygenossen, my Fuhrer!" Hitler, stony-faced, remained silent at this outburst of enthusiasm from the usually so dry Foreign Minister.
Stalin seemed, as Ribbentrop said, pleased with the border agreement, and after the end of the negotiations, he traced with a pencil on the border, now Soviet territory, the area that he presented to Ribbentrop as a huge hunting reserve. This gesture immediately provoked a reaction from Goering, who could not agree that the Stalinist increase went to the Minister of Foreign Affairs personally and expressed the opinion that it should go to the Reich and, therefore, to him, the Imperial Huntsman. Because of this, a furious dispute flared up between the two gentlemen-hunters, which ended for the Minister of Foreign Affairs in severe grief, since Goering turned out to be more assertive and punchy.
Half way clean
Discussions over the Russian bill on "whitewashing Nazism" and "revising the results of the Second World War" show that the brains of the Russian "elite" are firmly stuck in the Soviet quagmire. Particularly noteworthy is the "project" of the commission to combat "the falsification of history to the detriment of Russia's interests." I remember that the Constitution of the USSR of the 1970s contained an "inconspicuous" clause about "the rights and freedoms of citizens": "in accordance with the interests of the Soviet socialist state." Dissidents know how this reservation was implemented when citizens tried to exercise their rights and freedoms enshrined in the Basic Law.
But now the insanity of the “legislators” has gone even further. From the wording of the bill it follows that the falsification of history "in the interests of Russia" is permissible???
“It remains to add one more commission to the commission, which would determine which falsification is to the detriment of Russia, and which is not? But the Kremlin, apparently, will decide this issue itself,” a commentator on the Kasparov website sarcastically remarks. He notes that "both the task of the commission and its personal composition clearly indicate that the new body is intended to falsify history, but, however, in the right perspective for the Kremlin." He suggests that “those citizens who are not indifferent to history (whether they are historians or amateurs) need to compile a list of those data of national history that have already been falsified by “professionals” in the service of propaganda, and submit these “attempts to falsify” the commission in order to she selected from them fakes that suit the Kremlin, and fakes with which he will fight. Collect a list of controversial issues on the Internet and select the most important ones, according to readers.
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=4A1C10F8995E9
One can only imagine what passions will boil in the virtual space and how “easy” the task of the above-mentioned commission will be.
However, in the final version of the law and the resolution on the creation of the “truth commission”, the Freudian clause about “Russian interests” will most likely be verbally corrected. But that's why it is Freudian, in order now, at the moment, to give out the true motives hidden in the subconscious of the authors for the adoption of this masterpiece of lawmaking.
It would seem that the actors of the country that ceased to exist in 1991, turned into ghosts, would have to fight only within the limits of scientific and historical forums. But the generation of Gorbachev's glasnost, marked by an indomitable stream of publications exposing the egregious crimes of Bolshevism and its culmination, Stalinism, laid the foundation for the search for historical truth.
This process originally had a cleansing value. From the acclaimed movie
T. Abuladze's "Repentance" (1988) to the less popular, but stunning in its realistic depth, "Lenin's Testament" (based on Varlam Shalamov, 2004); from documentary articles and monographs that introduced the stunned mass reader to the incomprehensible tragedies that took place in his own country, under the guidance of the very leaders who, from kindergarten to the grave of life, were deified as people of the highest ideals, but carefully hidden under the strictest state secrets...
And society, it seemed, responded to the call for purification! I remember how during “perestroika” the whole country turned into a “reading room”, in the metro, trams, parks everyone read Ogonyok, “thick magazines”, and even newspapers, clinging to the gushing forbidden truth as a life-giving spring. It seemed that the publications themselves could already replace the official trial of the Soviet regime.
Perhaps, in the end, this would have happened, the process of publishing the historical truth about Bolshevik and Soviet crimes against their own people would gradually cleanse society, conducting something similar to the soft lustration carried out in all post-communist countries.
However, the process of assimilation of such publications, which required a rethinking of the usual “truths”, is completely new for the Soviet consciousness (accustomed to the only true truth learned from the school bench) and goes into the very depths of the formerly united Soviet people (according to various sources, from a third to a half of Soviet citizens were subjected to various repressions during the years of Soviet power, in fact, there is not a single family in which no one would have suffered!) turned out to be much more difficult than those who started it originally assumed. First of all, it was in the process of uncovering the most tragic aspects of the shared history that it finally became clear that the common Soviet house, which was considered fraternal, is nothing more than a communal apartment, where completely different peoples forcibly brought together live. And when the peoples broke up, as they said then, “according to national apartments” (i.e., from communal apartments to separate states), the process of assimilation and redistribution of the history experienced by each people further complicated the task for historians and the public concerned. The processes of revealing very complex facts-events were supplemented by the multiplicity of their possible interpretations in the contexts of national histories.
It would seem that this multiplicity should contribute to an even deeper cleansing of post-Soviet society, a joint rethinking of the crimes of the regime that has gone down in history, and the Russian people should not have left these processes. After all, in fact, nothing has changed, the process that began in the era of perestroika continues according to its own internal logic: “all the peoples of the former USSR suffered from totalitarianism, but each in some way in its own way.”
But today's Russia stumbled on this "each in its own way", in which more than 60% of state officials come from the former KGB and other Soviet structures, who were the perpetrators of the most terrible crimes against their own people. Therefore, in Russia, the purification process was artificially interrupted halfway through. And the former Soviet republics, now states, continue it, but already in the context of their own, national interpretations, sometimes limited by national boundaries, but often only bringing the tragedy of their own people to the fore against a wider background - Stalinist and Hitler's crimes. The situation is even more aggravated by the fact that Russia, having declared itself the legal successor of the USSR, is trying to evade responsibility for the crimes of the Soviet regime!
Such deliberate duality cannot, in principle, be "in the interests of Russia" and any interpretation of the historical truth about the Soviet regime. It can be "in the interests of Russia" only if one ignores the historical truth at all and declares Stalin "an effective manager."
But is it "in the interests" of Russia now, after all the revelations, after the official recognition of responsibility for many of Stalin's crimes (in particular, Yeltsin's recognition of responsibility for the mass execution of Polish officers in Katyn), to return to Soviet prohibitions?
Decide that Solomon Mikhoels died in a car accident, Mandelstam died in his bed from an illness, the "doctors' case" is an invention of the Zionists, and mammoth bones in a burial in the Ukrainian village of Bykivnia? Or - that Chechens, Crimean Tatars, etc. (13 repressed peoples!) were taken away from their native places for their massive (from infancy) cooperation with the Nazi occupiers?
Delete, hiding all the publications that have been published until today in special stores, mass deportations of Ukrainians, the Baltic peoples, as well as “kulaks”, etc.?
The process continues to this day, it cannot be stopped by any bills, just as not to stop, say, the Internetization by a decree on the "harmfulness of cybernetics."
Indeed, do the authors of this draft law imagine the possible consequences of the operation of this law (if they are smart enough to pass it)? Well, okay, within Russia, perhaps, they will “clean up” historical memory. But the world will not live according to Russian patterns!
Hope Banchik
Artem Krechetnikov
bbcrussian.com
I watched TV yesterday. President Dmitry Medvedev created a state commission to counter the falsification of history to the detriment of Russia's interests.
In fact, the truth must be defended regardless of whose interests it corresponds to. When "interests" are initially put at the forefront, one must forget about objectivity.
The name sounds broad, but judging by recent statements by Medvedev himself, the commission's main concern will be the history of World War II.
Talking about "denying the victory of the USSR" is strange. The causes of the war and the assessment of its results are indeed the subject of discussion. And the more time passes, the more furious it is. You don't argue about academic things like that.
It would seem, well, what difference does it make to us what Stalin wanted or did not want, or why did Vlasov do what he did? The affairs of bygone days, and we are not responsible for them.
But history is a science not so much about the past as about the future. It is studied in order to draw practical conclusions. The dispute is actually about how to prevent a repetition of the horrors of war, and in general what to be, and how to live on.
The orthodox Soviet view of the war comes down to a few basic theses:
1. The USSR had to fight a much stronger enemy, and even a sudden attack on a country that did not think about anything but peaceful labor. We were able to survive and win only because all the Soviet people, with the exception of an insignificant handful of degenerates, were ready without a moment's hesitation to give their lives, throw themselves under tanks and close the embrasures with their bodies. Our Gaidar Military Secret, the main guarantee of victory in the Great Patriotic War and, if it happens, in any future war, is not military professionalism and technology, although this, of course, is very important, not space, not climate and not allies, but mass heroism and self-sacrifice. We will not stand behind the price, if necessary - we will repeat! To doubt this is to mock the memory of the fallen and undermine the morale of new generations.
2. Before the war, the Soviet Union was the only consistent fighter for peace and collective security. England and France, together with the Polish "pans" and the Romanian "boyars" did not want to create a united anti-fascist front. They only thought about how to unite with Hitler in a crusade against the fatherland of the working people of the whole world (option: great Russia and Orthodox Slavic civilization), and only the brilliant work of Soviet diplomacy prevented this from happening.
3. We won almost single-handedly, the whole world is indebted to the USSR and Russia as its successor. This is especially true for the countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltics. Any manifestation of dissatisfaction on their part with what happened to them after the war is outrageous ingratitude, deserving of severe punishment. Anyone who opposes Russia for any reason is an unfinished Nazi.
4. No matter how many years pass, and no matter how the world changes, a special place in it belongs to Russia forever. The transformation of the USSR into a superpower is the main result of the Second World War, the revision of which should not be allowed. What happened in the 1990s is a historical injustice. The restoration of lost positions, and not the personal well-being of the townsfolk, especially the building of a liberal democracy, is the main national task.
5. The fact that the war broke out, and at the initial stage it was tragic for the USSR, is to blame:
a) Hitler, who did not warn of the attack two months in advance;
b) the insidious and hostile West;
c) Stalin, "who believed in Ribbentrop's signature under the non-aggression pact" (gullibility is a humanly sympathetic quality, but unforgivable for a leader; well, let's draw conclusions and henceforth we will never trust anyone in anything);
d) a story that gave us little time (the German invasion army had less than four thousand tanks, and the USSR only in the western districts - almost 13 thousand, but this was still not enough; again, let's learn a lesson and we will, without wasting time, arm yourself so as to be afraid of yourself).
The alternative position is as follows:
1. On June 22, 1941, the USSR had the most powerful army in the world, but this advantage was mediocrely lost. It was necessary to retreat to Moscow and the Volga and, with millions of victims, to knock out the enemy back because Stalin, before the war, was preparing not for defense, but for a “war with little blood on foreign territory”, so that “other coats of arms were added to fifteen coats of arms”, but played these games.
2. In the ranks of the fighters against fascism, the Soviet Union was not of good will and not because of principles, but by the force of circumstances. Until June 22, Berlin and Moscow were actually allies. Both totalitarian regimes were aggressors. Both dreamed of subjugating the whole world and remaking it in an unnatural, inhuman way, destroying civilization and freedom. Both are responsible for the start of the world war, albeit in different ways: Hitler kindled a fire, and Stalin threw firewood so that, in his own words, "the capitalists would have a good fight among themselves," and quietly picked up everything that lay badly.
3. After the establishment of illegitimate dictatorial power in Russia, the abolition of private property and all political and personal freedoms, the "red terror", deathly famine, mockery of religion, and 1937, many, if they did not want the Germans to win, did not have much desire to put heads for SUCH a state. It is in this, and not in "obsolete" tanks and planes, and not even in Stalin's fatal miscalculation, that the main reason for the collapse of the front and unprecedented scales of desertion and surrender lies in history. The war became Patriotic when the people became convinced that Hitler's regime was even worse than Stalin's (the people saw that they had fallen between a rock and a hard place). But even then, according to the most minimal estimates, at least 800 thousand Soviet citizens served the enemy with weapons in their hands. You should not make heroes out of them, but you should not limit yourself to cursing the "traitors" and not trying to analyze the reasons that caused mass treason. In numerous wars of the past, Russian people did not suffer from a lack of patriotism.
4. The victory over Nazism was a great blessing and a great service to mankind, but, unfortunately, it did not bring freedom to the peoples of the USSR, and for the countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltics meant a new occupation and another kind of totalitarianism. For them, the struggle for freedom ended not in 1945, but in 1989-1991. The USSR collapsed not because of someone's hostile machinations, but because of its own imperfection and under the weight of its own sins. The loss of superpower status can be treated differently, but there is no tragedy here. One of the victorious countries, Britain, lost it a long time ago, and somehow survived. No empire lasted forever. The vast majority of countries are not great powers and are doing well.
5. In order not to be afraid of external enemies, the state does not need to be stronger than everyone in the world. We must respect the rights and interests of our citizens, and in the international arena - pursue a truly peaceful policy, not try to warm our hands on someone else's misfortune, be friends with democracies, which, although sometimes selfish and hypocritical, are still more humane and more predictable than others. Their leaders at least read the Gospel and the Bill of Rights, and they took some of them out.
The debate about this will continue for a long time, perhaps forever. The French, even after 220 years, did not come to a consensus on whether they rightfully executed the king.
I don't know what the "Medvedev commission" will do. If desired, she could make a significant contribution to writing a true story. For example, to publish those pre-war documents of the Soviet General Staff, which, even seven decades later, remain locked up.
And to fight opinions with the methods of criminal repression and international sanctions is an empty business. Neither the Holy Inquisition nor the KGB succeeded in forbidding people to think.
But I also found the fact of complete nonsense
Valentin Mikhailovich Falin - Doctor of Historical Sciences, diplomat, political and public figure, speechwriter for Gromyko and Khrushchev.
since 1986 - Chairman of the Board of the Novosti Press Agency (APN)
In 1989-1991, head of the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1990-1991.
These are the "doctors" who "treat" us. Continues to lecture at MGIMO.
Falsification of history. How it's done
http://echo.msk.ru/blog/echomsk/5972...ts/new?comment=711415
Isaiah Oggins is an American citizen who worked together with his wife at the OGPU in the 20s-30s of the twentieth century in the Soviet residency in France, and then in the Far East. At some point, the OGPU ceased to trust Oggins, he was deceived into Moscow and arrested. The Americans, who had no claims against Oggins (he never spied on US territory), tried for many years to get him out of the USSR. It ended with the fact that the head of the MGB, Abakumov, decided in 1947 to put an end to this unpleasant story, and wrote a note addressed to Stalin and Molotov.
And here, in fact, what he proposed, calmly and in a businesslike way, as a solution to the issue:
"Proceeding from this, the Ministry of State Security of the USSR considers it necessary: to eliminate Oggins Isai, informing the Americans that Oggins, after a meeting with representatives of the American embassy in June 1943, was returned to the place of serving his sentence in Norilsk and there, in 1946, he died in the hospital as a result of an exacerbation spinal tuberculosis.
In the archives of the Norilsk camp, we will reflect the process of Oggins' illness, the medical and other assistance provided to him. Oggins' death will be documented by a medical history, an autopsy and a burial certificate..."
This note was among the documents found by a commission led by D.A. Volkogonov, which was engaged in finding out the fate of American servicemen who died and went missing on the territory of the USSR during the Second World War. Among other materials, a copy of the note was given to the US State Department in 1992.
The case of the death of Isaiah Oggins is a classic case of falsification, with the help of which "history was made" by the Soviet special services. The current "Commission on the falsification of history", apparently, is called upon to stand guard over such falsifications.
Giler and Molotov - a warm meeting of like-minded people.
Ribentrop signs a pact, from which the Kremlin still denies.
A great popularizer of sports and swimming in the sea, the author of the doctrine of fascism - Benito Mussolini. This picture reminds someone...
Giler and Mussolini.
So, on a crowded square, the political career of an athlete and another guardian for the happiness of the people ended ingloriously.
Upside down with party comrades and mistress Clara Petachi.
The Committee on the Falsification of History has begun to falsify
| The Kremlin hosts the first meeting of the Commission on countering the falsification of history to the detriment of Russia's interests It was created by presidential decree in May this year. The head of the commission, Sergei Naryshkin, promised that it would not become a censorship body, but would primarily deal with history textbooks. "Our historical community is well aware of the goals and objectives of the commission and its role in protecting the history of our country," he said. As a result, the commission, the first meeting of which is taking place today in the Kremlin, decided to take up history textbooks first. How is not yet very clear. It was stated that the commission intended to draw attention to the quality of textbooks. After all, historians and educators, according to the head of the presidential administration, are entrusted with a high responsibility for the formation of trusting relations between peoples and states. True, there are enemies among these states, with whom, apparently, the commission will fight - since, according to Naryshkin, they are ordered to distort the events and facts of various periods in the development of the Russian state. One of the priority topics has been identified. This is World War II. According to news agencies, among the participants in today's meeting are representatives of various ministries and departments, including the Ministry of Defense, the FSB, the Foreign Intelligence Service, as well as the State Duma, the Academy of Sciences and public organizations. |
It must be assumed that:
This historical community consists of:
| The Ministry of Defense, the FSB, the Foreign Intelligence Service, as well as the State Duma, the Academy of Sciences and public organizations. |
The Academy of Sciences (and I am not mistaken about the official representatives of this Soviet department) and public organizations (you need to think carefully about what is meant by this) follow the word "and also", that is, in the last category of participation priority.
The fact that they are trying to recreate fascism in our country is worthy of alarm and grief. I do not believe in the attainability of this goal - not those times, but the fact that this is once again, we will be thrown back in historical development - no doubt.
The state in which the ideological role is assumed by the Ministry of Defense, the FSB, the SVR cannot flourish. All this will go through the brains of our young generation, alas.
naked idiocy
The war was spawned by Nazism and communism
On August 23, 1939, in Danzig, which, under the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919, had the status of a "free city", that is, it was independent of Germany, local Nazis proclaimed Hitler's agent - Gauleiter Forster - "head of state". The provocation conceived in Berlin was calculated on the response of Poland, which, in turn, would provide Germany with an excuse to go to war.
Now, few people remember that the Second World War gave a false start. The command of the Wehrmacht was informed that "day X" - the day the invasion of Poland began - was scheduled for August 26th. However, on the 25th, Hitler received news of the signing of the Anglo-Polish agreement, as well as Mussolini's unwillingness to immediately support Germany. As in August 1914, the German leadership hoped that Britain would not enter the war; therefore, Hitler ordered Keitel to immediately suspend the deployment of hostilities.
"I need time to negotiate," the Fuhrer told Goering, "whether it is possible to eliminate the English interference." Liaison officers were forced to catch up with the troops already on the march. The world got one more - five-day - chance.
This chance was not used. Actually, it couldn't be used.
Hitler was already in the mood for a big war; diplomatic maneuvers on August 26 - 31, 1939 were needed in order not to drag England into the war. The German leadership was well aware that the inevitable naval blockade of the continent by the British fleet would significantly impair its military capabilities. But British and French diplomacy still counted on once again "appeasing the aggressor", only now not at the expense of Czechoslovak territory, but at the expense of Poland.
A strange blindness guided the actions of England and France. For example, on August 25, the French diplomat Bonnet stated literally the following: "It seems that Hitler does not want a general European war and, perhaps, agrees to negotiations." Even on August 30, the "hero" of the Munich Agreement, Chamberlain, told the chief of the British General Staff, Ironside, that there would be no war. Hitler was a better prophet, primarily because on the morning of August 28, 1939, he gave the order to launch an attack on Poland on September 1.
Almost exactly 25 years before these events, the First World War began, then the reason was a political assassination. Hitler, not wanting to rely on chance, decided to help this "accident" happen. On the night of September 1, the Nazis carried out a provocation.
Using a group of prisoners who knew Polish, the SS staged an attack on a German radio station in the town of Gleiwitz, bordering Poland. Several shots were fired in front of the microphone, amid shouts in Polish. The prisoners were then shot. It seems that they became the first victims of the Second World War. Already at dawn on September 1, 1939, German troops invaded Poland. World War II has begun.
World War II happened because there was World War I: some historians generally believe that this is one gigantic war, like the Hundred Years, and that between its first and second stages there was a 20-year truce - from 1919 to 1939.
As in the fourteenth year, nationalism gave rise to the war, only in the thirty-ninth it was "strengthened" by the preaching of racial and class hatred. Nationalism, racism, communism are all creations of the "industrial age"; just like the weapons that were used in both world wars - tanks, planes, submarines. In the end, the main values of a relatively normal society were upheld, but the pay was truly terrible.
After 1945, the world was different in every way. World War II began with desperately insane attacks by Polish cavalry on German tanks. It ended with atomic bombings.
Kirill Kobrin
A complete idiot is teaching the world community history!!!
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking in the Serbian Parliament on the day of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade, said:
And who started? Whose troops were in Eastern Europe in September 1939? Whose troops celebrated the first joint victory with Hitler with a military parade in the town of Brest?
Who are "all honest people"? Does Medvedev know that the concept of "honest" is derived from the word "honor"? Does Medvedev know that a person with honor will not allow himself to take an official position in a way that is not honest, not legitimate, not legal, and therefore criminal?
So who did Medvedev mean when he said - "to all honest people"
Who made these deliveries? Whose echelons went loaded to Germany across the Soviet border, right up to June 22, 1941?! Who conducted joint exercises with the Wehrmacht troops before the war on the territory of the USSR? Who trained German officers in our military academies?
We have already spoken a little about support, a little higher, and now about the number of victims ...
The USSR (and now Russia) is the only country that did not count its victims and still does not know. Moreover, she has been opposing this for 60 years in every possible way, lying and hiding data. We are the only country where unburied and unknown bones are still lying all over the territory of past battles.
How many people from among the "liberated" countries perished without any graves in the vast expanses of Siberia?
Only we and Nazi Germany practiced the use of bulldozers for burials !!! Moreover, we did this in relation to our citizens.
What is a "close analysis of the lessons of history"?! This expression is worthy of analysis by psychiatrists.
The President of Russia regularly speaks on such topics. So at a meeting with the heads of cultural institutions in Veliky Novgorod in September, he called on those present
It looks like he learned! As I got acquainted in high school with the content of textbooks for schoolchildren in grades 6-9, since then I have learned the TRUTH .... and now the world teaches ... from school textbooks written in accordance with the requirements of the ideological department of the Central Committee of the CPSU
So, according to those school textbooks in which there are "immutable truths", the USSR entered World War II on June 22, 1941, and a few years before that he traveled to Poland, Bessarabia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia at the "requests of the working people" those countries and against the wishes of their legitimate governments on tourist trips on ...... tanks.
More died under Stalin
On Friday, a seminar was held in London, which discussed the attitude of modern historians to the topic of World War II and the Holocaust.
BBC columnist Andrew Marr spoke with British historian and publicist, University of London professor Orlando Figes, who organized the workshop.
Andrew Marr: Your book "Whisperers. Life in Stalin's Russia", like other works, tells about the horrors of the repressions of the Soviet era. I don't know if this can be called genocide or not, but one thing is for sure - Stalin killed more people than Hitler, although this is not particularly discussed. At least not in the same way as the Holocaust. That's what your seminar is about, isn't it?
Orlando Figes: Yes, on Friday we discuss attitudes towards the Holocaust. In my opinion, the prevailing view of history, which exists thanks to Hollywood and the general fascination with Nazism and its deeds in Auschwitz, is actually about the mass extermination of Western European Jews; although many of those in Auschwitz certainly survived. And perhaps it is because of this infatuation that we forget about Eastern European Jews from Poland and the former Soviet Union, who actually made up the majority of the Jewish victims of the Nazi regime.
And I would say that yes, perhaps we have double standards regarding Soviet terror in the sense that perhaps our culture is far from the Soviet one and we know much less about it. Although even according to the most conservative estimates, from 20 to 25 million people became victims of repression, of which, perhaps, from five to six million died as a result of being in the Gulag.
E. M .: This is partly due to fantasizing about what happened, because I think that apart from Solzhenitsyn there were no other works or films about what happened?
OF: Indeed, no, it would be difficult to find any films about it. On the other hand, you can enter a cinema and come across a film based on the events of the Holocaust. There were only a few literary memoirs that describe events on a human level. The Gulag Archipelago is a wonderful and important book, but it is not a work that can emotionally immerse readers in the era of Stalinist terror.
E.M.: Perhaps the most sinister aspect of all this is that Russian organizations and those historians who began to write a reliable history of the Gulag, Stalinist terror and murders are now feeling the cold breath of repression, aren't they?
O.F.: Yes, right now there is a campaign launched by Putin himself to reveal the positive side of the Stalin period and downplay the memory of the repressions. And I think that's one of the reasons why I was asked to speak about this at the debate in London. This campaign has been going on for three or four years now and it is very difficult for Western journalists to be able to cover it.
E.M.: The worst thing about this is that you are quoting a man who rewrote history, rewrote history books in such a way that they treat any criticism [of the regime] as anti-Soviet and anti-Russian propaganda, and very aggressively.
OF: Yes, indeed, it is very cruel. There was a concerted effort to censor textbooks that compared the Soviet and Nazi periods. And now the Russian parliament will debate a law that would make it illegal. A historian was arrested a couple of weeks ago for studying materials on German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. In the organization "Memorial", with which I collaborated while working on the book "Whisperers" and which has been collecting evidence of the Stalinist terror and excavating mass graves for 20 years, searches were carried out in December last year, as a result, the police confiscated the entire archive. If, suppose, the German government decided to raid a Jewish museum and confiscate the entire archive of artifacts and documents about the Holocaust, then this would cause a flurry of protests around the world ...
E.M.: Are there any pro-Russian sentiments? After all, in the end, Russia chose the right side in the Second World War and, they say, therefore it should not be judged too harshly today.
O.F.: This is now a very politically misleading topic, since the Soviet Union has been on the right side since 1941. And from 1939 to 1941, and then again in 1945, Russia carried out mass acts of terror that are still remembered in Eastern Europe, especially in the Baltics. But I think you're right, there's a kind of left-wing belief that Russia really did start on the right track at some point, but then everything went awry because of the revolution.
Obscurantism, called to the production of idiots
Joseph Stalin became an example for schoolchildren
A new history textbook teaches: the interests of the state justify all means
The school history curriculum is now undergoing a new radical revision, just as it was in the late 1980s. The textbook of Russian history of the first half of the 20th century, edited by Alexander Danilov and Alexander Filippov, which shocked the public with the denial of totalitarianism in the USSR at the concept stage, was nevertheless published by the Enlightenment publishing house and accompanied by a teaching aid for teachers. The main thesis that the authors wish to convey to schoolchildren is “the state at any cost”. All the processes that took place in the 20th century are justified by the authors by state expediency, even if it cost millions of lives.
The publication on the website of the state publishing house "Prosveshchenie" of the concept of a textbook of Russian history of the first half of the 20th century, edited by Alexander Danilov and Alexander Filippov, shocked the public. In the concept of the future textbook, the planned famine in the USSR was denied, the “tabloid” concept of the beginning of the Second World War from Suvorov-Rezun was actually recognized (even discussion of which among historians is considered bad form), a “rational” explanation of Stalinist repressions was given. Moreover, political terror was praised as "a pragmatic tool for solving national economic problems." Responding to sharply critical publications about the concept, its authors urged not to rush to conclusions and wait for the publication of the textbook itself.
After the publication of the textbook, it turned out that the previous concept was reproduced almost completely - in the introduction. And in the textbook itself, having softened the wording, the authors carefully and consistently retained their specific approach. The point is not only that the concept of "totalitarianism" was not in the concept, and did not appear in the textbook - neither in the text itself, nor in a special dictionary at the end of the book. The authors report only that by the end of the 1930s, a certain “non-capitalist model of development, a special version of an industrial society” had been built in the country. The point is that they generally do not see in the history of the USSR the characteristic signs of totalitarianism. A red thread runs through the entire text of the textbook the idea that in the past of our Fatherland "everything was fine"
A textbook built on the principle of capturing the political and ideological conjuncture is useless by definition. The approach professed in it does not at all allow us to understand the history of “the people of Russia, whose fate was distorted by the totalitarian regime” (quote from Vladimir Putin’s speech), the Vremya Novostey newspaper clarifies.
In assessing the historical past, the authors somewhat softened the presentation, stipulating that they themselves do not justify the atrocities of the regime. Nevertheless, the conclusion follows from all further narration: everything that happened from the point of view of state expediency is justified. For the "mobilization policy" (the term used by the authors of the textbook) naturally included terror - for the sake of solving "tasks vital for the state." In this way, the newspaper review summarizes, schoolchildren are actually taught that the “price”, even if it is millions of lives, is not only possible, but sometimes should be neglected. The end justifies the means, and historians, when necessary, will justify the end.
The justification of Stalin's policy, which, in fact, the authors are engaged in, inevitably entails the justification of Stalin himself. And in this gesture, the co-authors Alexander Danilov and Alexander Filippov are not alone: revanchist sentiments in modern Russian society are very popular and are actively fueled by individual representatives of the authorities. A year ago, Stalin almost took first place during the all-Russian competition "Name of Russia" (as a result, he received third place). This summer, after the restoration of the lobby of the Kurskaya metro station in Moscow, visitors and journalists unexpectedly discovered that the metro management ordered to restore the doxology to Stalin from the early version of the USSR anthem on the base of the dome of the station lobby. And more recently, in the prestigious publishing series “The Life of Remarkable People” (ZhZL) for the 130th anniversary of Stalin, his 900-page biography was published, in which, almost like in Filippov’s textbook, it is stated: “He recreated the state and made it a superpower, based on historical the traditions of Russia... The cost of its “modernization”, though unforgivable from the point of view of “universal morality”, but after all, “suffering has never been the main circumstance in assessing the historical process. The greatness of goals and spirit has always been in the first place, since ancient times.
The textbook of Russian history by Filippov and Danilov also has a continuation, which sets out an equally revanchist view of the history of the second half of the 20th century (1945-2006). In particular, it denies the fact of post-war deportations of Chechens, Crimean Tatars, or residents of the Baltic states. All with the same sequence as in relation to the events of the first half of the century, the authors note that "the main attention of students is supposed to be concentrated on explaining the motives and logic of the actions of the authorities", stating that the main thing in the study of history is the study of power. Not the history of people, but only the ends and means of the state.
In the last chapter of the textbook - "Russia's New Course" - every event of the last eight years is interpreted from the standpoint of official propaganda. The abolition of direct elections of governors is justified by the "unwillingness of the executive branch to act effectively in crisis situations", demonstrated, according to the authors, by the seizure of the school in Beslan. And the "Yukos case", the authors believe, "finally buried the hopes of the oligarchs to maintain their control over the Russian state." The creators of the textbook emphasize the educational nature of the persecution of the oil company: "In 2004, after the "Yukos affair", the receipts of federal taxes and fees increased by 133.8% compared to 2003."
One of the main ideological principles of the “textbook on sovereign democracy”, as it was dubbed in the scientific community, was that the Russian people are genetically incapable of democracy, therefore they always choose a strong, paternalistic state, even to the detriment of their own rights. And genetically, Russia is most prone to the monarchy.
The falsification of history, due to political, ideological and sometimes even financial reasons, inspires doubts about the reality of historical events and the authenticity of historical sources, which ultimately gives rise to an information shock due to a sharp change in generally accepted and scientifically based views - a shock that contributes to the manipulation of public consciousness.
The negative consequences of the falsification of the history of Russia are manifested as historical nihilism, the destruction of the prospects for state development, and the segmentation of public consciousness.
These and other problems arising in connection with the falsification of Russian history were discussed in the reports of the conference held by the Book and Reading Department of the RSL.
Here are videos of performances, many of which are really worth watching:
Sale of Alaska: myths and facts
Mironov Ivan Borisovich, Candidate of Historical Sciences.
Documented research that refutes the official version of the sale of Alaska from school textbooks. A story shockingly reminiscent of modernity, in terms of corruption factors, “kickbacks” and “cutting” budgetary and public funds by a handful of oligarchs and gray cardinals of that time.
The Katyn problem: documents and reality
Shved Vladislav Nikolaevich, Candidate of Historical Sciences
Synod and the overthrow of the monarchy
Babkin Mikhail Anatolievich, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State University for the Humanities
Interesting facts that refute the official "compassionate" version of the ROC-MP about the overthrow of the monarchy in Russia as an institution. The facts of the hasty activity of the Synod to delegitimize the royal power even before the official abdication of the Romanovs are given. Circulars sent to all parishes ordered to commemorate the royal power in the past tense, and in the akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos “Blessed by God” suddenly began to be called ahead of schedule not the royal power, but the Provisional Government. Such actions fueled people's nervousness, and these cited facts are still a zone of silence in the New Believer Church.
Grigory Rasputin and his "double": falsification of personality
Mironova Tatyana Leonidovna, Doctor of Philology, Chief Researcher of the RSL
An analysis of the testimonies and memories of those days tells about the methods of banal and brazen manipulation of public opinion with the help of falsifications and provocations in the media. The atrocities attributed to Grigory Rasputin are a clownery of doubles, organized by swindlers with the tacit consent of the government and the Royal Family.
"Vlesova book" as a historical and philological falsification
Shalygina Natalya Vladimirovna, candidate of philological sciences, associate professor of the Orthodox University named after St. John the Evangelist
A rich factual material is summarized that the Vlesova Book is a complete historical fake, both from the point of view of linguistic and philological analysis, and from the point of view of the historical inconsistency of the version of its acquisition. Examples of substitutions, the latest changes and additions made in new editions of the publication in response to the arguments of scientific criticism, as well as the perfidious substitution of negative reviews of this book with evidence of its validity from the same authors are given.
Russian historians about the "New Chronology" by A.T. Fomenko-Nosovsky
Bushuev Sergey Vladimirovich, leading researcher of the RSL
A number of absurdities of the discussed work and the opinion of the scientific community about the "New Chronology" are listed. The possible prerequisites for the emergence of this kind of "scientific fiction" are analyzed, the popularization of which may soon oust the real history of our country from the consciousness of society and our descendants.
Also read the article on the topic on our website: “New Chronology” by Fomenko and Nosovsky:
The nobility in Russia: myths and reality
Shcherbachev Oleg Vyacheslavovich, leader of the Moscow noble assembly
The leader of the Moscow Nobility Assembly says that the stereotyped clichés about the nobility that have become established in the public mind do not correspond to historical reality and require clarification and correction.
Publishing project "Forgotten and Unknown Russia"
Blagovo Valentina Alekseevna, Candidate of Philology
Presentation of books on the history of Russia from a publishing house specializing in such publications.
Discussion of reports
Photos from the event are posted on the RSL website: http://readerlounge.blogspot.ru/2013/10/blog-post_25.html#more
In addition, we present on the topic an amazingly frank study on the falsification of a document attributed to the Bolshevik regime: “Instruction of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars” signed by the chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee M.I. Kalinin and Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V.I. Lenin dated May 1, 1919, No. 13666/2” on “the fight against priests and religion”, addressed to F. Dzerzhinsky. http://redstar2012.livejournal.com/37403.html :
By this decision, Dzerzhinsky was “indicated” to the need “to do away with priests and religion as soon as possible. Priests were to be arrested as counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, shot mercilessly and everywhere. And as much as possible. Churches are to be closed. The premises of temples should be sealed and turned into warehouses” (see photo).
The article, written by the staff of the Rublevsky Museum, describes in detail the sources and goals of the falsifiers, and we strongly recommend that you read it to form your own attitude to the problem.
Lenin's instructions about the fight against priests are fake: who is behind it?
I swear on my honor that for nothing in the world I would not want to change my fatherland or have a different history, except for the history of our ancestors, such as God gave it to us (Pushkin A.S. Collected work: In 10 vols. M., 1992. Vol. 10. S. 310)
Mankurt did not know who he was, where he came from, a tribe, did not know his name, did not remember childhood, father and mother - in a word, mankurt did not realize himself as a human being. Deprived of understanding his own self, mankurt from an economic point of view had a number of advantages. He was equivalent to a dumb creature and therefore absolutely submissive and safe ... The command of the owner for the mankurt was above all (Chingiz Aitmatov. Stormy stop (And the day lasts longer than a century). M., 1981 S. 106-107)
Society in Russia is sick. And the diagnosis of this disease is anabiosis. Apparently, over the past decades, such monstrous experiments have been carried out on the historical memory of our people that a protective mechanism is triggered in the surviving generation, making it easy to forget today what happened yesterday... their students, who are between 18 and 25 years old, that they ALREADY do not know either the Soviet Union or the history of its collapse. And indeed, those who today are from 15 - the age of the beginning of the awakening of social activity, to 35 - and this, according to sociological canons, is the “age of maturity”, do not have the knowledge and personal experience of the USSR - for them this is a completely DIFFERENT country and a different AGE, terra incognita »: http://expertmus.livejournal.com/59586.html?thread=398786#t398786
This article was supposed to be published in the museum blog on the eve of the presidential elections on March 4, 2012, but this was prevented by a heinous provocation against the editorial staff of the blog in LJ: http://expertmus.livejournal.com/94995.html Regular readers of our site know firsthand about the principled position of its editors in covering the drama of Russian history, whether it be the orgy of atheists: http://expertmus.livejournal.com/53948.html or the struggle for shrines: http://expertmus.livejournal.com/29617.html. The main criterion in the preparation of editorial materials was and remains the objectivity of the facts presented and the rebuff to all sorts of insinuations and fooling the people.
The stuffing of falsified "documents" on the history of Russia began immediately after the falsification of the results of the presidential elections on March 26, 2000, when in Russia as a whole Putin received, according to the majority of experts, approximately 48-49% of the votes, but the Presidential Administration and the "election ministry" lowered "from above" the CEC figured 52.94% (39,740,434 votes), although at the time the elections ended at 20:00, only 44.5% were for Putin (Verkhovsky A.M., Mikhailovskaya E.M., Pribylovsky V.V. PUTIN'S RUSSIA: A Partisan View, Moscow: Panorama Center, 2003, pp. 146-158). Instead of the second round, the inauguration was held on May 7, 2000 in the Kremlin, and a dirty information war was unleashed against Putin's main rival, Zyuganov, using fakes from the "Kremlin archives", which has not subsided to this day: http://expertmus.livejournal.com /89273.html
On the eve of the presidential elections on March 4, 2012, Patriarch Kirill, after the Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on February 29, 2012, stated that too many lies and hypocrisy are used during the election campaign: “how the heart is broken from this stream of lies, slander, hypocrisy, juggling of facts oblivion of historical experience! Excuse me, but how can the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church denounce lies from the pulpit and at the same time launch fakes (see video) ?! I remember that someone from the Moscow Patriarchate even hinted at schizophrenia when both executioners and victims are glorified at the same time :-)
To manipulate mass consciousness in Russia, a total falsification of historical sources has been launched, one of the striking examples of which is the so-called. " Lenin's directive of May 1, 1919 No. 13666/2" on "the fight against priests and religion ". At the international conference "Christianity on the Threshold of the New Millennium", organized in June 2000 jointly by the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Moscow Patriarchate, journalist V.M. Markov reported on his 1999 publication in Nash Sovremennik magazine with comments by priest Fr. Dimitry Dudko, where the “Instruction of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars” was first mentioned, signed by the chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee M.I. Kalinin and Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V.I. Lenin dated May 1, 1919 No. 13666/2, addressed to the chairman of the Cheka F.E. Dzerzhinsky with reference to some mysterious "decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars." By this decision, Dzerzhinsky was “indicated” to the need “to do away with priests and religion as soon as possible. Priests were to be arrested as counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, shot mercilessly and everywhere. And as much as possible. Churches are to be closed. The premises of temples should be sealed and turned into warehouses” (see photo). It is this so-called. "instruction" is most often used today as proof of the "bloodlust" and "fierce" of the Bolsheviks in the early years of Soviet power.
We note right away that in the practice of party-state office work there were no documents with the name “Instruction”. The All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars have not issued a single document with such a name in their entire activities. There were only resolutions and decrees signed by the heads of these bodies (see collections “ Decrees of the Soviet government”), while serial numbers were not assigned to such documents. However, in all dubious publications, the “instruction” was assigned the serial number 13666/2, which implies the presence of many thousands of “instructions” in state records management. None of these documents is known to historians, has not been found in the archives, and has never been published. Of course, such a number was invented by falsifiers in order to be able to introduce into it the apocalyptic "number of the beast", give the paper a pronounced mystical character and connect it with the "satanic" element of Russian Bolshevism. In this case, the calculation was made not on the intellectuals, but on the mass consciousness. "Three sixes" in the "Lenin document" were supposed to hit the perception of a simple believer. The choice of the date is not accidental either – May 1, International Workers' Day.
For all his party and state activities, Lenin did not sign a single document with the title " indication”- neither with three sixes, nor without :-) There was no anti-religious document of Lenin dated May 1, 1919 and under a different name (decrees, notes, telegrams, decrees, etc.).
The Russian State Archive of Social-Political History (RGASPI) stores a fund of Lenin's documents, it included all Lenin's documents. Now all the documents of the Lenin Fund have been declassified and are available to researchers, since they do not contain state secrets. " Lenin's directive of May 1, 1919» is absent in RGASPI. Director of RGASPI K.M. Anderson on June 2, 2003 informed M.A. Vysotsky, in response to his request about the notorious “Instruction of Lenin dated May 1, 1919”, which he met in the work of G. Nazarov, the following: “In the funds of V. I. Lenin, M. I. Kalinin and other Soviet statesmen of secret documents and there is no restricted access. We also inform you that the text of the order of the chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Kalinin and the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin to the chairman of the Cheka Dzerzhinsky dated May 1, 1919, which is of interest to you, was not found in the RGASPI. At the same time, we inform you that the author of the article you sent, German Nazarov, did not work in the reading room of the archive and, therefore, did not receive any documents. All Lenin's documents in RGASPI are cataloged strictly by date. Among the papers relating to May 1, 1919, there are no anti-religious ones - these are several resolutions signed by Lenin of the Small Council of People's Commissars that met on that day, which relate to minor economic issues (RGASPI. F. 2 (V. I. Lenin's fund). Op. 1. D. 9537. Protocol No. 243 of the meeting of the Small Council of People's Commissars on May 1, 1919), as well as several resolutions on incoming telegrams (Lenin V.I. Biographical chronicle. M., 1977. T. 7. S. 149, 150).
There is no “Instruction of Lenin dated May 1, 1919” in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, where the funds of the Council of People's Commissars and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee are stored. The Central Archive of the FSB and the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation deny the existence of this “document” in their official letters. Thus, “Lenin's Decree of May 1, 1919” is absent in all state and departmental archives of Russia specialized on this topic. Likewise, there was no secret "decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars" of 1917-1919. about the need to “do away with priests and religion as soon as possible”, in pursuance of which “Lenin’s Decree of May 1, 1919” was allegedly issued. There are no "instructions of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD" with references to this "instruction" (allegedly canceled together with the "instruction" in 1939), there are no documents on its implementation.
Moreover, the content of the imaginary "Instruction" contradicts the factual side of the history of church-state relations in 1918 - early 1920s. During the fabrication of the “document”, the gross historical ignorance of the falsifiers was revealed. Documents of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR indicate that in 1919, and in 1920, and in the early 1920s. By order of the People's Commissariat of Justice of the RSFSR, individual churches were repeatedly placed at the disposal of the communities of believers, and the decisions of local authorities on their arbitrary closure were canceled. Such a practice, under the influence of "Lenin's directive of May 1, 1919" or a document similar to it, would be completely impossible. On April 23, 1919, the VIII department of the People's Commissariat of Justice informed the Administration of the Council of People's Commissars that "if the railway church at the Kursk station is a separate building, then there are no obstacles to transferring it to the disposal of groups of believers."
The clarification of the People's Commissariat of Justice is a response to a petition addressed to Lenin by a general meeting of Kursk railway workers, "strongly protesting against the closure of the church" (State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF). F. 130. Op. 1. D. 208. L. 10, 11). In this case, the authorities could not but reckon with the moods among the "ruling class", even if, from their point of view, they were backward. In early November 1919, the Council of People's Commissars received a petition from the believers of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra about the unlawful closure of a number of churches on the territory of the Lavra. It was accepted for consideration, and the manager of the affairs of the Council of People's Commissars V.D. Bonch-Bruevich ordered the VIII department of the NKJ "to investigate the circumstances and inform me for a report to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars." “It is necessary to obtain exact information,” he wrote further, “why these churches were closed. The decree on the separation of the Church from the state does not provide for this circumstance – the interference of local authorities in the religious rights of citizens” (Ibid. L. 17). Of course, the tragic fate of the Lavra itself, closed by the authorities a few years later, is known: http://expertmus.livejournal.com/28442.html. But it is impossible not to notice that in 1919 the authorities demonstrated their "tolerance" and even met the believers halfway on the issue of abolishing the closure of churches. Hence Bonch-Bruyevich's call to "investigate", to provide "accurate information" for his report to Lenin, his reference to the "Decree", his rebuke to the local authorities.
The initiators of the persecution of the Church at the indicated time most often became not only and not so much the punitive bodies (local Chekas), but various kinds of local councils, executive committees, presidiums, land committees, and revolutionary committees. There are many striking examples of this kind in the archives. After October 1917, the nuns of the Kolomna convent got the opportunity to live in the form of a women's labor commune, but it did not last long. In August 1919, the Kolomna City Executive Committee searched and plundered the monastery and sealed its premises. On August 19, the nuns sent a collective letter to Lenin: “Almost all are nuns of the peasant class, living on their own work - needlework. Why rob and embarrass them? You write that the Workers' and Peasants' Government does not interfere in the affairs of the faith, but does not allow believers to live. Please return everything taken in our monastery.” The nuns noticed that searches were continuing in the monastery and that all property was being plundered and taken away. The letter got to Bonch-Bruevich, who wrote briefly and expressively on paper: “ To the archive» (Ibid. Op. 3. D. 210. L. 37).
On September 3, 1919, about 400 sisters of the Serafimo-Diveevo convent sent a complaint addressed to Bonch-Bruyevich. The Nizhny Novgorod provincial land department took away from the community of 1600 all the monastic land (91 dessiatins), plowed by the sisters, in the absence of previously confiscated cattle, "on itself", i.e. harnessing instead of horses (Ibid. L. 59). There was no reaction from Bonch-Bruevich. Later, the sisters were thrown out of the monastery, and it was closed in 1927: http://rublev-museum.livejournal.com/108332.html
In relation to the Orthodox clergy, the policy of the Bolshevik authorities was not aimed at its total physical destruction, as the authors of the fake - the so-called. "Lenin's instructions of May 1, 1919, No. 13666/2". In the 1920s the tactics of splitting the Church from within with the aim of destroying its canonical structures prevailed. For this, groups of representatives of the clergy loyal to the authorities were used, who became objects of manipulation. Similar tasks in the 1930s. were carried out by the forces of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD, which would be completely impossible if they were faced with the task of "widespread" destruction of the clergy.
The head of the Soviet punitive organs, Dzerzhinsky, in whose name Lenin allegedly sent an ominous "instruction", wrote to his deputy M.Ya. Latsis April 9, 1921: " My opinion is that the church is falling apart, this should be helped, but in no way should it be revived in a renovationist form. Therefore, the church policy of collapse should be carried out by the Cheka, not by anyone else."(RGASPI. F. 76. Op. 3. D. 196. L. 3-3v.). Dzerzhinsky more than once demonstrated flexibility in his methods of combating the Church. On March 11, 1921, he issued a circular on the procedure for the liquidation of the Moscow United Council of Religious Communities and Groups for allegedly "counter-revolutionary activities." At the same time, he directed the Chekists to fight those religious societies that “under the flag of religion openly conduct agitation that contributes to the collapse of the Red Army, against the use of food distributions and the like.” And at the same time he ordered the workers of the Cheka: Communities that do no harm to the proletariat should be treated with the utmost caution, trying not to irritate religious associations that are not led by any counter-revolutionary center, which turned out to be the Moscow United Council. When issuing a circular, strictly refrain from any measures that could raise complaints against the agents of our government in the sense of ... constraining purely religious freedom"(F. E. Dzerzhinsky - Chairman of the Cheka-OGPU. 1917-1926: Collection of documents. M., 2007. S. 266, 267). This real source contradicts the assertion that the VChK is oriented toward the “widespread” destruction of the clergy.
Thus, even if we ignore the archival and clerical details that prove the forgery of the so-called. "Lenin's instructions of May 1, 1919", such a document could not have been born at all, since it does not fit into the real picture of church-state relations in 1918-1923. The normative acts that justified the persecution of the Church, persecution and restrictions on the rights of believers are well known in historiography: the Decree on the separation of the church from the state and the school from the Church of January 20, 1918, which deprived the Church of the right of ownership and legal entity, and May 1918 - the decision to create a "liquidation" department of the People's Commissariat of Justice; instructions of the People's Commissariat of Justice of August 30, 1918, depriving the Church of the rights of missionary, charitable, cultural and educational activities (further documents reproduced these provisions). In addition to the above normative acts, it should not be forgotten that in March 1919, at the VIII Congress of the RCP (b), the Party Program was adopted, with clause 13: “to avoid any insult to the feelings of believers, leading only to the consolidation of religious fanaticism” (CPSU in resolutions and decisions of congresses, conferences and plenums of the Central Committee. T. 2. M., 1983. P. 83). So, an analysis of the sources establishes that “Lenin's instructions of May 1, 1919” on the fight against priests and religion did not exist, and its text cited in various publications is a gross fake.
The matrix of public consciousness is being intensively cleared right before our eyes. According to the head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, even the materials on the impeachment of Yeltsin in 1998-1999 “everything has already been liquidated ... they are no longer in the open press, everything has been destroyed. Impeachment remains completely in my book “Loyalty”, all speeches, all faction leaders are described”: http://rublev-museum.livejournal.com/286212.html
Katyn case
And the most active member of the special parliamentary commission to consider the issue of impeachment, Viktor Ilyukhin (see photo), died, according to Zyuganov, against his will. Let us recall that on May 26, 2010, Ilyukhin informed Zyuganov that on May 25, 2010, one of the members of the special group for the production and forgery of archival documents, incl. on the Katyn case. According to him, “in the early 1990s, a group of high-ranking specialists was created to forge archival documents relating to important events of the Soviet period. This group worked in the structure of the security service of Russian President Yeltsin. Geographically, it was located in the premises of the former dachas of workers of the Central Committee of the CPSU in the village. Nagorny (Sparrow Hills, Kosygin St., military unit 54799-T FSO). According to him, the necessary order was delivered to Nagorny, a text for a document that should have been prepared, or a text to be included in an existing archival document, to make a signature of one or another official under the text or on the text. They had free access to archival materials. Many documents were brought to the village. Nagorny without any accounting and control over their movement. Their receipt was not fixed by any receipts and storage obligations. The group worked in Nagorny until 1996, and then was moved to the settlement of Zarechye.
According to him, a group of people worked on the semantic content of the draft texts, which allegedly included the former head of the Russian Archive R.G. Pikhoya. The name of the first deputy head of the presidential security service, G. Rogozin, was also named. He knows that employees of the 6th Institute (Molchanov) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation worked in the same vein with archival documents. He, in particular, said that they had prepared a note by L. Beria to the Politburo of the CPSU (b) No. 794 / B dated March 1940, in which it was proposed to shoot more than 20 thousand Polish prisoners of war. He claims that hundreds of false historical documents were thrown into the Russian archives during this period and the same number were falsified by introducing distorted information into them, as well as by forging signatures. In support of what was said, the interlocutor presented a number of letterheads from the 40s of the last century, as well as fake stamps, signatures, etc. (see photo). At the same time, he stated that it often causes irony for the public to present certain archival documents as reliable, although the named group of people “had a hand” in their falsification”: http://youtu.be/jRJzkIAKarQ
The credibility of this sensational exposure of Yeltsin's mass falsification of historical sources is well confirmed by the history of the Katyn case. We are talking about the famous documents from package No. 1, which for decades was kept in the closed archive of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the rights of special importance. In September 1992, as Andrei Artizov, the current head of the Rosarchive, reported, the commission for familiarization with the documents of the archive of the President of the Russian Federation opened this package at a scheduled meeting. “In October 1990, on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation Yeltsin, copies of these documents were handed over to the President, then President of the Republic of Poland Walesa, and, of course, they were published in Poland,” the head of the Russian Archives explained: http://www.rian .ru/society/20100428/227660849.html
For reference: Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian Federation on June 12, 1991: http://rublev-museum.livejournal.com/264148.html. And in July 1992, in the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation, the then head of the presidential administration, Yu.V. Petrov, Advisor to the President D.A. Volkogonov, chief archivist R.G. Pikhoya and director of the archive A.V. Short looked through his top secret materials. On September 24, they opened "Special Package No. 1". As Korotkoe said, “the documents turned out to be so serious that they were reported to Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. The President's reaction was swift: he immediately ordered that Rudolf Pikhoya, as the chief state archivist of Russia, fly to Warsaw and hand over these amazing documents to President Walesa. Then we sent copies to the Constitutional Court, the Prosecutor General's Office and the public” (Yazhborovskaya I.S., Yablokov A.Yu., Parsadanova V.S. Katyn Syndrome in Soviet-Polish Relations, M. ROSPEN, 2001, p. 386) . As you know, the transfer of these copies (!) to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, which was then considering the "case on the ban on the CPSU", turned out to be a complete embarrassment for Yeltsin's supporters :-)
Meanwhile, there is another version of Yeltsin's publication of the "Katyn case", set out in the memoirs of the main "foreman of perestroika" A.N. Yakovleva: “In December 1991, in my presence, Gorbachev handed over to Yeltsin a package with all the documents on Katyn. When the envelope was opened, there were notes by Shelepin, Serov and materials about the execution of Polish servicemen and civilians, especially from the intelligentsia (more than 22 thousand people). I still don’t understand what was the point of keeping all these documents secret….” It turns out that the “Katyn case” was “found” either in December 1991 (according to Yakovlev) or in September 1992 ( according to the official version).
It must be taken into account that on the cover of the package, the photo of which is posted on the website of the Federal Archive, not only a list of what is inside is indicated, but also the date - December 24, 1991 with a note from above “Archive of the VI sector O. about the Central Committee of the CPSU Without the permission of the head Office of the President S... do not open the package”: http://rusarchives.ru/publication/katyn/14.jpg . As you know, Gorbachev officially announced his resignation on December 25, 1991. Accordingly, on December 24, 1991, the day before the "transfer of cases", the documents from the "Special Folder" in one package were handed over by Gorbachev to Yeltsin, as mentioned by Yakovlev. And V.I. Boldin wrote in his memoirs that in 1989 the “Katyn case” consisted of not one thick, but two thin closed packages, and inside both closed packages on Katyn in 1989 there were only “a few pages” with text. (Boldin V.I. The collapse of the pedestal. M., "Respublika". S. 257). 18.04. 1989 V. Galkin received from V.I. Boldin "Katyn case" and in one package handed over to the VI sector O. about the Central Committee of the CPSU (see photo). Officially confirmed the fact of his personal acquaintance in April 1989 with documents from the "Katyn case" and b. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU M.S. Gorbachev. Moreover, Gorbachev, as well as V.I. Boldin, claims that in April 1989 there were two closed “Katyn folders”, and not one, while specifying: “... But both contained documentation confirming the version of the commission of academician Burdenko. It was a set of disparate materials, and all under that version ”(Gorbachev M.S. Life and reform. M., RIA Novosti, 1995. Book 2. P. 346).
For reference: according to the official Soviet version, published in 1944, Polish soldiers were shot by the German occupation forces near Smolensk in 1941. This conclusion was based on the conclusion of a commission chaired by academician Nikolai Burdenko, which included writer Alexei Tolstoy, Metropolitan Nikolai ( Yarushevich), People's Commissar of Education Vladimir Potemkin, as well as high-ranking representatives of the army and the NKVD.
Thus, a fake note by L. Beria to the Politburo of the CPSU (b) No. 794 / B dated March 1940 was made in the structure of the security service of the Russian President Yeltsin on the basis of the former dachas of the workers of the Central Committee of the CPSU in the village. Nagorny between December 25, 1991 and September 1992, when it was “found” by the group of the chief archivist R.G. Pihoya in "Special Package #1"...
Russian historians, in particular, Doctor of Historical Sciences M. Meltyukhov, have already proven the falsification of the “Will of V.I. Lenin”, documents related to the abdication of the throne of Nicholas II, and other similar facts have been established. Among them is the fake “Instruction of Lenin dated May 1, 1919 No. 13666/2” on the “fight against priests and religion”, first published in 1999. In order to build a false pseudo-historical series in the minds of people, the authors of this fake used wide popularity another fake - the so-called. Lenin's letters to V.M. Molotov dated March 19, 1922 on the discrediting of the Church as an ideological adversary during the famine in the country, which was first mentioned in 1964, when the 45th volume of Lenin’s PSS was released, where a place was allocated specifically for a note about this “letter” on from. 666. As you know, the number 666 - the number of Satan-Lucifer - is a secret signal to all Kabbalists, Jews and Masons: "Here is a mystery, here is a lie, here is our presence!"...
"The Matrix has you…"
To be continued …
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Let's finish with (not) funny pictures on the theme of the Soviet era, found on the site http://politiko.ua/blogpost810596
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