"Who liberated Auschwitz?" – Wikipedia launched a campaign to discredit the USSR

The West has launched a large-scale campaign to fool new generations - to discredit and equate the USSR with the Hitler regime. The efforts of Russia’s enemies acquired particular scope in the year of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Director of the EAEU Institute Vladimir Lepekhin stated this at a round table in Moscow dedicated to the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“The past year 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the great Victory. But this year is interesting not only because of the anniversary, but, above all, because the falsification of the history of the Second World War, the Great Patriotic War, has reached its climax. It feels like all the world’s Russophobic forces are focused on completely changing this story,” Lepekhin said.

The history of the liberation of prisoners of Nazi concentration camps was also used to discredit the USSR and its legal successor, Russia. The Wikipedia virtual reference platform is one of the tools for spreading fake news.

“This topic of death camps, concentration camps of the Third Reich is one of those topics that is subject to massive falsification and, perhaps, not as dramatically as some other topics, but at least very consistently turned upside down...

Let me give you an example of this confusion. In Wikipedia, for example, there is an article that concerns the Sachsenhausen camp. Once upon a time, this article contained fairly brief information on the history of this camp. But then, after some time, additional information appeared, which says that after the Second World War this camp was transferred to the NKVD department, and that an internment camp also continued to exist there, and, thus, there is a certain comparison that there was a fascist camp, then it was transformed into an NKVD camp, and there is no difference.

But the difference is colossal! Because it was generally a death camp for the extermination of prisoners of war, Jews, people of other nationalities, dissidents, and so on, and then there was a territory where prisoners of war were checked, it was not a death camp, it was a tool for work related to internees, prisoners of war, and so on Further. The difference is colossal,” Lepekhin emphasized.

According to Lepekhin, a substitution of concepts also regularly occurs when the First Ukrainian Front, which liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, separates itself from the Red Army, of which the soldiers were part.

“Ukrainian Front or Soviet Army – who liberated Auschwitz?” And here you can give a lot of such examples. The third direction is downplaying the role of the Soviet army in the liberation of the territory of Eastern Europe and those very camps, hushing up this role of the Soviet army.

Again, let’s take a source that is considered objective, this is Wikipedia, and carefully look at all the articles that relate to fascist, Nazi camps. We read an article entitled “Nazi death camps.” This article does not talk at all about Soviet prisoners of war who were exterminated in these camps...

Some pages are covered quite objectively and in detail, while others are completely missing. For example, everything related to the destruction of Soviet prisoners of war. Let's take the second article entitled "Concentration camps of the Third Reich." There, yes, Soviet prisoners of war are mentioned twice, and in the following context: “including.” Although even the most minimal estimates show that more than two and a half million Soviet prisoners of war were destroyed in these camps,” Lepekhin gave an example of manipulation.

Let us recall that attempts are being made in Europe to expose anti-Russian propaganda. Thus, the Czech branch of the “Immortal Regiment” in 2020 released the film “The Price of Victory”, which tells about the common struggle of the soldiers of the Red Army and the First Czechoslovak Corps against Nazi Germany.