DISINFO: The West is trying to distort the truth about World War II
SUMMARY
Today, the West are trying to distort the truth about World War II. This worries them, those who are accustomed to basing their essentially colonial policy on hypocrisy and lies.
Revanchism and mockery of history, the justification of Nazism are part of the general policy of Western elites to incite more and more regional conflicts, interethnic and interreligious hostility, and to restrain sovereign, independent centres of world development.
In the first years of the Great Patriotic War, the USSR fought Nazism head-on, while all of Europe worked for Hitler. In the West, they want to forget the lessons of World War II.
RESPONSE
This message contains a number of well-known pro-Kremlin narratives about Western historical revisionism, and the aggressive West interested in a new global conflict.
According to the Kremlin’s policy, the official Russian historiography is the only “true” way of interpreting the historical events of WWII. Any disagreement with the Kremlin’s official view on the history of WWII is automatically labelled by Russia as a “falsification of history” - even when officials change position regd. key events in Russian history, see for instance about the Katyn massacre where official blame or recognition has shifted a few times.
The European Parliament called the war the bloodiest tragedy of the century, which resulted in millions of victims of authoritarian regimes both of fascist Germany and the USSR. The European Parliament adopted a resolution describing the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 23 August 1939 as a key element paving the way for the outbreak of World War II.
At the same time, Western historians acknowledge the role played by the USSR in defeating Nazism and do not question the Soviet contribution to the victory in WWII and the status of the USSR as one of the countries that had won WWII. The policy of the US or the EU is not directed against Russia or any other country.
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