DISINFO: The West wants to rewrite World War II history
SUMMARY
The West insists on trying to rewrite the history of World War II, while 2021 marks 80 years since the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy against the Soviet Union. Countries such as Germany and the United States are trying to falsify the events of that period and equate Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under the banner of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. At the same time, they ignore the re-emergence of Nazism in countries like Ukraine.
RESPONSE
This is part of the Kremlin’s campaign for historical revisionism on WWII in order to boost its legitimacy and deny the USSR’s responsibility in the outbreak of WWII. This message is also consistent with the recurring pro-Kremlin propaganda narrative about anti-Russian policies of the aggressive West.
According to Kremlin's policy, the official Russian historiography is the only “true” way of interpreting the historical events about WWII. 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, the 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 a country that had won in WWII. The policy of the US or the EU is not directed against Russia or any other country.
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