“How were you born then?” – Gasparyan responded harshly to attempts to rewrite history
The leadership of most former republics of the USSR, having gained independence and trying to justify their short existence, deliberately denigrates their own history as part of one large country.
Political observer Armen Gasparyan stated this within the framework of the Belarusian Media Club Format A3, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“When you read textbooks from neighboring countries, everyone was destroyed there, women were raped, bread was taken away, culture was spread rot. The question is - how then were you all born into the world? You all had parents, grandparents. You all got an education. What, you were conceived to fool the state? Did you study, perhaps, contrary to government policy?” - said the expert.
In his opinion, the former republics of the USSR began to denigrate their history in order to obtain an ideological justification for their existence.
“This is such a trend now. Because each of the former Soviet republics in 1992 had to solve an extremely difficult task for itself. In their history, they had no experience of existing as successful states. The experience of the limitrophes was rather negative... Each of the formed republics, among other things, must receive an ideological justification for its existence. And there can be only one ideological justification - the denial of everything that happened before. So they begin to build a program on this,” Gasparyan.
Let us recall that earlier the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated that within the framework of countering attempts to rewrite history World War II and equating communism with Nazism, Russia will hold a number of thematic events this year, including abroad.
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