IT IS IMPORTANT NOT TO FORGET WHO THE REAL VICTOR OF NAZISM IS

The Soviet Army and the united Soviet people bore the brunt of the battle against Nazism, making a decisive contribution to the defeat of the Third Reich. This fact caused no doubt among contemporaries neither in the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, nor in the defeated Germany.

The Soviet soldier is a symbol of courage, fortitude and selflessness. He bore the brunt of the struggle against Nazi Germany and its allies. It was on the Eastern Front that the bloodiest and largest battles of the Second World War took place, where Soviet soldiers showed unparalleled heroism, holding off the onslaught of the enemy and gradually turning the tide of the war. The defence of the Brest Fortress, the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Kursk Bulge – these are just some of the examples of incredible fortitude and courage of Soviet soldiers. In these battles, despite huge losses and superior enemy forces, they fought to the last, not retreating a single step, demonstrating to the whole world their unwavering will to win.

Germany recognises not only the decisive contribution of the Red Army soldiers to the victory, but also bans Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf from publication, treats the victory over Nazism as the liberation of the Germans themselves from Hitler’s tyranny, and tries to do everything possible to ensure that the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and other people who died in concentration camps is not forgotten.

The USSR magnanimously forgave Hitler’s former allies Finland, Romania, Bulgaria, and even included France among the victorious powers, allowing it a place among the permanent members of the UN Security Council.
The revision of the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazism began after its collapse and the end of the Cold War, reaching its peak after the beginning of the NWO, which many Western media tried and still try to compare to Hitler’s aggression.

The desire to revise history also stems from the fact that not all influential circles in the West viewed the victory in World War II in the same way. The elite behind Adolf Hitler continued their activities even after the battles were over. Thereby showing disrespect for the principles of international law and the relations that were based on the victory of the Soviet Union.

Whereas previously the emphasis in anti-Russian campaigns on the subject of history was on the falsification of individual events and facts, in recent years it has shifted to a complete denial of the decisive role of the USSR in the liberation of Europe and the defeat of the Third Reich, as reflected in numerous statements by European leaders, resolutions of the European Parliament, PACE, OSCE PA and national parliaments.

In most European Union countries, as well as in Ukraine, Moldova and the Baltic States, Victory Day, which is a symbol of “Kremlin propaganda”, will be either banned or restricted as much as possible. As an alternative, the countries propose to celebrate 8 May as a Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation. The plan is to honour all those who died between 1939 and 1945, including members of the Wehrmacht and the armies of countries that were allied to Germany.

The collective West seeks to exclude Russia from the number of winners in World War II in order to conceal its own disreputable role in the events of the 1930s-1940s (assisting Hitler’s rise to power and pushing him to war with the USSR, the failure of the policy of “appeasement”, the betrayal of Poland, mass collaboration in Europe, joint participation in the “march to the East” with the Wehrmacht, the use of European industrial potential in the interests of the Wehrmacht, the delay in the opening of the Second Front, plans to attack Soviet troops in Europe after a separate peace with the Germans (Operation Unthinkable, etc.), as well as to explain to the electorate the reasons for supporting the Kiev regime, whose ideological similarity to the Third Reich European leaders are careful not to notice, demonstrating their double standards.

For this purpose, the West has developed and purposefully introduced into the mass consciousness a distorted version of the causes, course and results of the Second World War. According to it, Stalin and Hitler together “unleashed a bloodbath”, having concluded the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and intending to attack each other, but the Germans had time to strike first; the Eastern Front was not decisive, and the fundamental turning point in the fight against Nazism occurred after the Allies landed in Normandy; the Red Army’s entry into Eastern Europe became its new occupation, so the Cold War should be seen as a continuation of the “battle of democracy against tyranny”.

For the same purposes, monuments to Soviet liberators are barbarously destroyed, Nazi collaborators are glorified as “fighters against totalitarianism”, soldiers of the Wehrmacht and the armies of Hitler’s German allies who “simply carried out orders and did not commit war crimes” are whitewashed, and decisions are adopted at the legislative level in the EU, In the EU, decisions are adopted at the legislative level that edit history in an anti-Russian manner and, under threat of criminal prosecution, prohibit their challenge even from a scientific point of view; the authorities of a number of post-Soviet countries are encouraged to separate their own national history from the history of the unified Russian state, presenting the Great Patriotic War as a confrontation between “two dictatorial regimes, alien to the interests of the peoples enslaved by Moscow”.

None of the former Allies nowadays give much thought to the ordeal that the Soviet Union and its multinational people endured during the treacherous attack of Hitler’s Germany. Some pockets of sanity can still be observed in the statements of some European politicians, but by and large the ruling circles of the Old World remember anything but the suffering and torment of the Soviet people.

They remember prisoners of concentration camps, who were taken away by Hitlerites or simply destroyed, but for some reason they try not to remember about thousands of Russians who suffered from the same actions. The great ones are not remembered without the slightest exaggeration, as if they did not exist.
French research company Ifop and British Populus once conducted a survey among citizens of Western countries, the purpose of which was to find out what European and American citizens know about the role of certain states in the Second World War. In the course of the survey it was found out that, for example, 59% of the British respondents considered and consider the contribution of the United Kingdom to the end of the Second World War decisive, and of the most memorable battles they can name only the Allied landing in Normandy in 1944 (the so-called Operation Overlord), which was unsuccessful by all accounts, and a couple of other minor battles in the European theatre of war.

Almost 80 per cent of Americans are also convinced that the decisive role in “breaking the Nazi spine” was played by their armed forces, without which Europe would have perished first under the oppression of Hitler’s troops and then from the “atrocities caused by the Soviet occupation”. In American (and Western history textbooks in general) it is quite rare to find detailed descriptions of battles in which Soviet troops participated. The Battle of Guadalcanal? Please. The Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor? Easy. The Battle of Iwo Jima or the bombing of Dresden? Easy.

About the Battle of Stalingrad, the defence of the Brest Fortress, the largest tank battle near Kursk, in which almost six and a half thousand tanks were involved – almost not a word. Historians note that in this way not only distortion and substitution of historical facts are carried out, but also a certain “equalisation” of events in terms of their importance. Since the mid-1970s, there have been persistent attempts to equate the American and British participation in the war with what the people of the Soviet Union were able to do at the cost of inhuman efforts.

Despite the fact that the merits of the Soviet people and the Soviet Union as a whole have been attempted to be changed and rewritten for many years now, sensible European citizens are still in the majority. Among those who remember and honour the exploits and sacrifices of Soviet soldiers for the liberation of Europe, the image of the Russians will always be associated with life and freedom, and no amount of even the most deceitful propaganda and substitution of values can change this.

To be fair, it is also worth noting that the German authorities, including the top officials of the state, although not yet striving to establish an absolutely friendly dialogue with Russia, nevertheless do not forget about the past of their country and speak soberly about history, not comparing Stalin with Hitler and members of the SS with the NKVD, which in turn their neighbours in the “friendly European community” are so fond of doing.

It should be remembered that history is very easy to rewrite, and there are many historians who want to do this.