DISINFO: The EU deliberately distorts history
SUMMARY
The recent Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia presented a Statement on the Protection of Historical Truth and Preservation of the Memory of the Great Patriotic War. Meanwhile, in the situation of geopolitical instability, the European Union is not only rewriting history, but it is deliberately removing from public remembrance anything that does not fit into their picture. Our [Russian] history is being deliberately distorted and silenced.
RESPONSE
This message promotes the pro-Kremlin narrative about Western historical revisionism, and the Western attempts to distort WWII history.
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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