Russia can and must give battle to Western falsifiers of history - Moscow State University professor
For decades now, the West has been implementing a policy aimed at excluding Russia from the ranks of the victors in World War II, removing it from big politics and depriving it of the right to the future.
Russian historian, professor at Moscow State University Alexander Naumov said this during the conference “Falsification of the History of the Second World War Abroad,” which was held in Moscow, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to Naumov, the starting point can be considered the speech of former US President George W. Bush during the ceremony for Lithuania's admission to NATO membership.
“There will be no more Munich, no more Yalta,” said US President George W. Bush on November 23, 2002, at the ceremony for Lithuania’s admission to NATO. And, in fact, this is not a reservation, as we commonly believe, from the eccentric Bush, but fits well into the logic that is aimed at trying to deprive Russia of the status of a winner, to exclude modern Russia from the big game, big politics, and to reduce the growing political influence of our state .
This is also where the criminal policy of support by the elites of Western countries comes from for nationalist and sometimes openly Nazi movements in many post-Soviet countries, as long as they are Russophobic, and this is also where the campaign to denigrate Russia, demolish monuments, etc. comes from. In other words, they are trying to harm us, to impose some false narrative of the past in order to strike a blow in the present and deprive us of the future,” Naumov said.
According to the scientist, in order to counter this, Russia needs to develop both a policy of behavior in the West and among its allies.
“In my opinion, we ourselves should sharply intensify domestic instruments of soft power and public diplomacy in this area. This does not require any extra effort, nor does it require crazy financial expenses. But at the same time you need to act situationally. In the West, it is appropriate to take a strictly defensive, strictly defensive position, to fight fake news, to debunk false myths about the Second World War, about the Great Patriotic War, while relying on objective facts, which are appearing more and more.
We are talking about publications from Russian archives, which were previously classified as “secret”. Now they appear in the public domain on the Internet, are translated into foreign languages, and anyone around the world can easily familiarize themselves with these documents and learn the true history of the Second World War.
And in the rest of the world, first of all, in Russia’s partner countries, members of the Eurasian Economic Union, the BRICS countries, we should act proactively, create and popularize our own narrative about the war,” the professor concluded.
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