home Biology The falsification of history is an attempt to rehabilitate fascism. Falsification of the history of the Second World War - as an ideological weapon of the West against modern Russia Falsification of world history as an attempt at a modern world order

The falsification of history is an attempt to rehabilitate fascism. Falsification of the history of the Second World War - as an ideological weapon of the West against modern Russia Falsification of world history as an attempt at a modern world order

In May of this year, speaking in Strasbourg at the seminar "Memory and Lessons of the Second World War", organized by the European Youth Center, I encountered an amusing reproach addressed to me. The reproach sounded like this: "The speaker sowed doubts in the souls of the listeners and talked too much about the role of the USSR in the war." What exactly confused these innocent European souls?

AT modern world in its various corners, unfortunately, human rights are violated daily and hourly: the right to security, freedom of movement, the right to life. One of these systematically violated rights is the human right to reliable information, to knowledge about the past, present, and hence the future (remember George Orwell's 1984: "Who controls the past controls the future"). The falsification of history is a malicious violation of the right to reliable information. And, I must say, today we would not have the opportunity to talk about human rights if it were not for the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany that determined the course of world history in the middle of the 20th century.

World War II and the Great Patriotic War occupy a special place in the deeds of falsifiers of history. Russia, as the successor to the Soviet Union, is being blamed for the outbreak of World War II, making it the starting point for political, financial, and territorial claims. The main goal of the revision of the results of the Second World War is the revision of its most important geopolitical results.

The processes of falsifying the history of the twentieth century accelerated after 1991, when the state that bore the brunt of World War II ceased to exist, and even more so since 2014, from such a milestone in the history of the Russian people as the reunification of Crimea with Russia.

I distinguish three main types of falsification of history:

Falsification of meanings (conceptual falsification);

Falsification of facts, their deliberate distortion;

Falsification by default (concealment of facts).

At the conceptual level, the main technique of falsifiers is to put an equal sign between Stalinist USSR and Hitler's Germany, combining them into the general category of "totalitarian regimes" and placing on them equal responsibility for unleashing the Second World War. Here one cannot fail to mention the scientific inconsistency of the very term “totalitarianism”, which, with the light hand of Hannah Arendt, Karl Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski, has been serving as an instrument of crude anti-Soviet and anti-Russian propaganda for more than six decades. The concept of "totalitarianism", artificially derived in the laboratory, was turned into a universal weapon of information warfare against Russia/USSR.

Today, this comparison of the incomparable and the identification of the unidentifiable is part of the political worldview of the West. PACE adopted a resolution on "the need for international condemnation of the crimes of totalitarian communist regimes" (Resolution No. 1481). On June 3, 2008, the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism was adopted. On April 2, 2009, the European Parliament approved the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.

The initiators and promoters of this entire campaign would like to recall that in November 1939, at the first scientific symposium on the nature of the totalitarian state, the remarkable American researcher Carlton Hayes explained that totalitarianism is a phenomenon of a market economy, a phenomenon of bourgeois civilization and beyond it. does not exist. To the totalitarian regimes Carlton Hayes attributed Mussolini's Italy and Nazi Germany. Stalinist Soviet Union, in his opinion, is a completely different type of state, where there are no private property and classes, where systemic anti-capitalism was built - socialism, where an ideology that was fundamentally different from the Nazi ideology dominated.

However, the “conceptual virus”, launched with the assistance of Arendt, Brzezinski and others, did not just poison the minds. It influenced political practice, found expression in calls to Russia to repent for the "enslavement" of the European peoples (including the Russian Baltic Pomerania), in demands from Moscow for monetary "compensations", in rewriting history textbooks.

The falsifiers refuse to remember that the USSR was the object of fascist aggression; they equate the subject of aggression with its object. As a result, in the 1930s the West encouraged the Nazis to take action against the USSR; today the West looks condescendingly on how former SS men and their followers march through the streets of Riga, Tallinn, Kyiv. Western countries refused to vote for a resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism. And it is the anti-Russian orientation of Nazism that meets understanding in the West. So it was in the 1930s, so it is now.

About the falsification of facts. With the light hand of the traitor Rezun, who fled from the USSR to England and writing under the pseudonym Suvorov, public opinion began to be corrupted by the thesis that Stalin was allegedly preparing an attack on Germany, but Hitler forestalled him. This fake, made in London, does not stand up to the slightest scrutiny. First of all, let's look at the numbers: on the eve of the war, the United States accounted for 41.7% of the world's military potential, Germany - 14.4%; in the USSR - 14%; to the UK - 10.2%; to France - 4.2%; Italy and Japan each had 2.5%; the rest of the world -10.5%. (Kennedy P. The rise and the fall of the great powers, 1989, p. 430). Then we recall that back in 1937, the United States declared, and in April 1941 issued a decision of the Congress, a strategic directive, according to which, if Germany attacks the USSR, America will help the Soviet Union, and if USSR will attack against Germany or ALLOW YOURSELF to be provoked, then the United States will help Germany. Now imagine that Stalin attacks Germany. The United States will immediately be on the side of the latter, not to mention Italy and Japan. It turns out 61.1% against 14%. In addition, Great Britain and France in this situation would quickly make peace with Germany - a total of 75.7% against 14%. Stalin was not suicidal, and he could not plan an attack on Germany.

I cannot but recall the words of Harry Truman when he was Vice President of the United States. “If we see that Germany is winning the war,” he said, “we should help Russia. If Russia wins, we should help Germany, and let them kill each other as much as possible, although I do not want under any circumstances to see Hitler as the winners ”(New York Times, 06/24/1941).

Spreading lies today about the "equal responsibility of the USSR and Germany" for the outbreak of World War II, Western (and, unfortunately, some Russian) historians are trying at all costs to remove from the West responsibility for the policy of "appeasement" of Hitler, which led to the war.

Continues to be under attack Soviet-German treaty on non-aggression, referred to in the West as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. At the same time, they forget that before the conclusion of the Soviet-German treaty, Germany captured Austria in March 1938, and in September of the same year entered into Munich agreement with Western democracies. Hitler was given the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. On October 1, 1938, Poland captured Teszyn Silesia, which was previously part of Czechoslovakia. Hungary occupied the south of Slovakia. By their behavior, the then rulers of Poland and Hungary contributed to the liquidation of Czechoslovakia, the final capture of which was carried out in the spring of 1939. At the same time, the Lithuanian Memel (Klaipeda region) was also captured.

Let me also remind you that back in 1938 Great Britain and France signed treaties with Germany similar to the Soviet-German one; were to these treaties and secret additional protocols. Signed with Germany such agreements and the Baltic countries. However, no one blames them for this. It would also be worth recalling that all the efforts of the USSR to create a system of collective security in Europe in the 1930s were invariably torpedoed by Western governments.

The international situation in the late 1930s was exceptionally difficult. In the East, in Mongolia, Soviet and Mongolian troops were fighting with the Japanese on the Khalkhin Gol River. In the West, Germany was about to start a war against Poland, which did not want to accept help from the USSR. In the event of its occupation and the further offensive of German troops on the Soviet Union, the latter would have to wage war on two fronts - in Europe and Asia. The Soviet-German non-aggression pact eliminated this danger and there is not the slightest reason to consider it the cause of the outbreak of World War II. The secret additional protocol on the division of the "spheres of interest" of the contracting parties was not such a reason either. The main task set by Moscow was fulfilled by the Soviet-German treaty - it postponed the start of the war against the USSR.

The falsifiers of history should also be reminded of the documents of the Nuremberg Tribunal. The verdict of the tribunal, in particular, stated: “On June 22, 1941, without declaring war, Germany invaded Soviet territory in accordance with a previously prepared plan. The evidence presented to the tribunal confirms that Germany had elaborate plans to crush the USSR as a political and military force to clear the way for German expansion to the East in accordance with her aspirations ... The plans for the economic exploitation of the USSR, the mass deportation of the population, the murder of commissars and political leaders were part of a carefully designed plan, the implementation of which began on June 22 without any warning and without a shadow of legal justification . It was a clear attack."

Only unhealthy or ignorant people can put the USSR and Hitler's Third Reich on the same level.

And finally, about falsification by default. When they talk about the victims of the war, they mention Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, but, as a rule, they say nothing about Russians and Slavs in general. Let's see the statistics. The military losses of the USSR, according to modern data, amount to 11 million 900 thousand. Germany lost 8 million 876 thousand. Prisoners: Soviet - 4.576 thousand (1.559 thousand returned); Germans in the USSR - 3.576 thousand (70% of them returned to their homeland). Soviet people 5 times more (!) died in captivity than the Germans. Losses of the civilian population: 14 million 700 thousand, 7 million 420 390 of them were exterminated by the Germans, 4 million 100 thousand died from the cruel conditions of occupation, 2 million 164 313 died in forced labor in Germany. At the same time, in Germany, 4 million civilians died from the bombing - the Anglo-Americans deliberately destroyed the civilian population of Germany in accordance with the program developed by Kurt Lewin and von Neumann (inflict maximum damage on the Germans for psychological and demographic purposes). It is also worth comparing the attitude towards Germany and the Germans of the Soviet leadership and, for example, the British. So, Churchill wrote: "We are not at war with Hitler, and not even with National Socialism, but with the spirit of Schiller, so that he will never be reborn." And here are Stalin's words: "Hitlers come and go, but the German people remain." Feel the difference gentlemen!

In European and American history textbooks they write that the decisive role in the victory over Nazi Germany and militaristic Japan were played by the victories of the Anglo-American troops in such operations as the "Market Garden" in Holland, the landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944 and the Battle of Midway Atoll in the Pacific theater of operations. Wherein Battle of Stalingrad, which served as the beginning of a radical turning point during the Second World War, the battle on Kursk Bulge, the victory in which gave the Soviet Union strategic superiority on all fronts, Operation Bagration, during which the Red Army finally cleared the Soviet land of the enemy and began the liberation of Europe from Nazism, are described as battles local importance or not described at all.

Fraud by default is a monstrous thing. More than 30% of Japanese schoolchildren believe that atomic bombs Soviet planes were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A significant part of young Europeans is sure that Hitler was defeated by the United States, and now you can even come across the assertion that Europe was liberated by... Ukraine. The falsifications have deformed the consciousness not only of the youth, but also of those who are responsible for making political decisions. And this is extremely dangerous.

Michel Montaigne said: "In contrast to the truth, a lie has a hundred thousand guises and has no limits." Alas: today lies "in a hundred thousand guises" have become an integral part of the political worldview of the West.

Elena PONOMARYOVA

In the modern world in its various parts, unfortunately, human rights are violated daily and hourly: the right to security, freedom of movement, the right to life. One of these systematically violated rights is the human right to reliable information, to knowledge about the past, present, and hence the future (remember George Orwell's 1984: "Who controls the past controls the future"). The falsification of history is a malicious violation of the right to reliable information. And, I must say, today we would not have the opportunity to talk about human rights if it were not for the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany that determined the course of world history in the middle of the 20th century.

I distinguish three main types of falsification of history:

Falsification of meanings (conceptual falsification);

Falsification of facts, their deliberate distortion;

Falsification by default (concealment of facts).

At the conceptual level, the main trick of the falsifiers is to equate the Stalinist USSR and Hitler's Germany, unite them into the general category of "totalitarian regimes" and make them equally responsible for unleashing the Second World War. Here one cannot fail to mention the scientific inconsistency of the very term “totalitarianism”, which, with the light hand of Hannah Arendt, Karl Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski, has been serving as an instrument of crude anti-Soviet and anti-Russian propaganda for more than six decades. The concept of "totalitarianism", artificially derived in the laboratory, was turned into a universal weapon of information warfare against Russia/USSR.

The initiators and promoters of this entire campaign would like to recall that in November 1939, at the first scientific symposium on the nature of the totalitarian state, the remarkable American researcher Carlton Hayes explained that totalitarianism is a phenomenon of a market economy, a phenomenon of bourgeois civilization and beyond it. does not exist. Carlton Hayes attributed Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany to totalitarian regimes. Stalin's Soviet Union, in his opinion, is a completely different type of state, where there are no private property and classes, where systemic anti-capitalism was built - socialism, where an ideology that was fundamentally different from Nazi ideology dominated.

About the falsification of facts. With the light hand of the traitor Rezun, who fled from the USSR to England and writing under the pseudonym Suvorov, public opinion began to be corrupted by the thesis that Stalin was allegedly preparing an attack on Germany, but Hitler forestalled him. This fake, made in London, does not stand up to the slightest scrutiny. First of all, let's look at the numbers: on the eve of the war, the United States accounted for 41.7% of the world's military potential, Germany - 14.4%; in the USSR - 14%; to the UK - 10.2%; to France - 4.2%; Italy and Japan each had 2.5%; the rest of the world -10.5%. (Kennedy P. The rise and the fall of the great powers, 1989, p. 430). Then we recall that back in 1937, the United States declared, and in April 1941 issued a decision of the Congress, a strategic directive, according to which, if Germany attacks the USSR, America will help the Soviet Union, and if the USSR attacks Germany or If he allows himself to be provoked, then the United States will help Germany. Now imagine that Stalin attacks Germany. The United States will immediately be on the side of the latter, not to mention Italy and Japan. It turns out 61.1% against 14%. In addition, Great Britain and France in this situation would quickly make peace with Germany - a total of 75.7% against 14%. Stalin was not suicidal, and he could not plan an attack on Germany.

The Soviet-German non-aggression pact, referred to in the West as the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact", is still subjected to fierce attacks. At the same time, they forget that before the conclusion of the Soviet-German treaty, Germany seized Austria in March 1938, and in September of the same year entered into the Munich Pact with the Western democracies. Hitler was given the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. On October 1, 1938, Poland captured Teszyn Silesia, which was previously part of Czechoslovakia. Hungary occupied the south of Slovakia. By their behavior, the then rulers of Poland and Hungary contributed to the liquidation of Czechoslovakia, the final capture of which was carried out in the spring of 1939. At the same time, the Lithuanian Memel (Klaipeda region) was also captured.

The international situation in the late 1930s was exceptionally difficult. In the East, in Mongolia, Soviet and Mongolian troops fought the Japanese on the Khalkhin Gol River. In the West, Germany was about to start a war against Poland, which did not want to accept help from the USSR. In the event of its occupation and the further offensive of German troops on the Soviet Union, the latter would have to wage war on two fronts - in Europe and Asia. The Soviet-German non-aggression pact eliminated this danger and there is not the slightest reason to consider it the cause of the outbreak of World War II. The secret additional protocol on the division of the "spheres of interest" of the contracting parties was not such a reason either. The main task set by Moscow was fulfilled by the Soviet-German treaty - it postponed the start of the war against the USSR.

The falsifiers of history should also be reminded of the documents of the Nuremberg Tribunal. The verdict of the tribunal, in particular, stated: “On June 22, 1941, without declaring war, Germany invaded Soviet territory in accordance with a previously prepared plan. The evidence presented to the tribunal confirms that Germany had elaborate plans to crush the USSR as a political and military force in order to clear the way for German expansion to the East in accordance with her aspirations ... The plans for the economic exploitation of the USSR, mass deportation of the population, the murder of commissars and political leaders were part of a carefully crafted plan that began on June 22 without any warning and without a shadow of legal justification. It was a clear attack."

Only unhealthy or ignorant people can put the USSR and Hitler's Third Reich on the same level.

And finally, about falsification by default. When they talk about the victims of the war, they mention Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, but, as a rule, they say nothing about Russians and Slavs in general. Let's see the statistics. The military losses of the USSR, according to modern data, amount to 11 million 900 thousand. Germany lost 8 million 876 thousand. Prisoners: Soviet - 4.576 thousand (1.559 thousand returned); Germans in the USSR - 3.576 thousand (70% of them returned to their homeland). Soviet people died in captivity 5 times more (!) than Germans. Losses of the civilian population: 14 million 700 thousand, 7 million 420 390 of them were exterminated by the Germans, 4 million 100 thousand died from the cruel conditions of occupation, 2 million 164 313 died in forced labor in Germany. At the same time, in Germany, 4 million civilians died from the bombing - the Anglo-Americans deliberately destroyed the civilian population of Germany in accordance with the program developed by Kurt Lewin and von Neumann (inflict maximum damage on the Germans for psychological and demographic purposes). It is also worth comparing the attitude towards Germany and the Germans of the Soviet leadership and, for example, the British. So, Churchill wrote: "We are not at war with Hitler, and not even with National Socialism, but with the spirit of Schiller, so that he will never be reborn." And here are Stalin's words: "Hitlers come and go, but the German people remain." Feel the difference gentlemen!

In European and American history textbooks, they write that the Anglo-American victories in such operations as Market Garden in Holland, the landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944 and the Battle of the Atoll played a decisive role in the victory over Nazi Germany and militaristic Japan. Midway in the Pacific theater of operations. At the same time, the Battle of Stalingrad, which served as the beginning of a radical turning point in the course of World War II, the Battle of Kursk, the victory in which gave the Soviet Union strategic superiority on all fronts, Operation Bagration, during which the Red Army finally cleared the Soviet land of the enemy and began the liberation of Europe from Nazism, are described as battles of local importance or are not described at all.

Fraud by default is a monstrous thing. More than 30% of Japanese schoolchildren believe that Soviet aircraft dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A significant part of young Europeans is sure that Hitler was defeated by the United States, and now you can even come across the assertion that Europe was liberated by... Ukraine. The falsifications have deformed the consciousness not only of the youth, but also of those who are responsible for making political decisions. And this is extremely dangerous.

ELENA PONOMARYOVA

Outright forgeries are found not only among written documents. Many other fake objects of material culture were sometimes mistakenly and deliberately included in the world heritage of mankind: paintings, sculptures, fake objects of religious worship, supposedly antique artifacts. Some of them were specially forged antique, some are not correctly dated. But both of them still prevent most of us from forming a correct idea of history.

Falsification of history

The largest museums in the world have hundreds of thousands of museum exhibits. A significant part of these items historians and archaeologists attribute either to the beginning of our era or even to the pre-Christian era. Most museum visitors trustingly listen to guides, as a rule, not paying attention to the fact that their stories often contradict not only, but even elementary logic.

Let's take a fresh look at some famous historical monuments. Hundreds of sculptural images of great people of the past have survived to this day. Almost all of them are made at a highly artistic level. Fine marble, superb sculptural technique, the highest quality of images and almost always very well preserved. Looking at them, it is impossible not to notice that they are all made in the same style, although historians date them to different centuries. Here is Socrates

Here is Zeus

and this is Alexander the Great,

Caligula

Carlo the Great.

There is every reason to believe that the falsification of history began at the time of the earliest civilizations. As soon as humanity began to preserve information about its past in one way or another, there were immediately those who were interested in distorting it. The reasons for this are very different, but basically this is the desire, using the examples of past years, to prove to contemporaries the truth of the ideological and religious teachings that existed at that time.

The main methods of historical falsification

The falsification of history is the same fraud, but in a special way. large size, since entire generations of people often become its victims, and the damage caused by them has to be replenished over a long time. Historical falsifiers, like other professional swindlers, have a rich arsenal of tricks. Passing off their own conjectures as information supposedly taken from real-life documents, they, as a rule, either do not indicate the source at all, or refer to the one they themselves invented. Often, deliberate fakes published before are cited as evidence.

But such primitive tricks are typical for amateurs. True masters, for whom the falsification of history has become a subject of art, are engaged in falsification of primary sources. It is they who own the "sensational archaeological discoveries", the discovery of previously "unknown" and "unpublished" chronicle materials, diaries and memoirs.

Their activity, which is reflected in the Criminal Code, certainly includes elements of creativity. The impunity of these false historians is based on the fact that to expose them, a serious scientific examination is needed, which in most cases is not carried out, and sometimes it is also falsified.

Fake Ancient Egypt

It is not difficult to see how long the tradition is based on the falsification of history. Examples from ancient times can be proof of this. The monuments that have survived to our times are a striking evidence. In them, the deeds of the pharaohs are usually depicted in a clearly hypertrophied form.

For example, an ancient author claims that Ramses II, participating in the Battle of Kadesh, personally destroyed a whole horde of enemies, which ensured victory for his army. In fact, other sources of that era testify to the very modest results achieved that day by the Egyptians on the battlefield, and to the dubious merits of the pharaoh.

Falsification of an imperial decree

Another obvious historical forgery, which is appropriate to recall, is the so-called Konstantinov gift. According to this "document", the Roman who ruled in the 4th century and made Christianity official religion state, transferred the rights of secular power to the head of the church. And later they proved that its production dates back to the VIII-IX centuries, that is, the document was born at least four hundred years after the death of Constantine himself. It was for a long period the basis for papal claims to supreme power.

Fabrication of materials against disgraced boyars

In the context of new historical realities, those who put an equal sign between freedom and permissiveness appeared, especially when it concerned the achievement of certain momentary goals. One of the main methods of political PR of those years was the indiscriminate denunciation of the past, reaching the complete denial of it. positive sides. It is no coincidence that even those components of our history that were previously considered sacred were subjected to fierce attacks by the figures of the new time. First of all, we are talking about such a shameful phenomenon as the falsification of the history of the war.

Reasons for lying

If during the years of the ideological monopoly of the CPSU history was distorted in order to elevate the role of the party in the victory over the enemy and depict the readiness of millions of people to die for the leader Stalin, then in the post-perestroika period there was a tendency to deny the mass heroism of the people in the fight against the Nazis and downplay the importance Great Victory. These phenomena are two sides of the same coin.

In both cases, deliberate lies are put at the service of specific political interests. If in the past years the communists took it into service to maintain the authority of their regime, today those who are trying to make use of it are trying to make their political capital. Both are equally unscrupulous in their means.

Historical falsifications today

The pernicious tendency to reshape history, noted in the documents that have come down to us from ancient times, has successfully migrated into the enlightened XXI century. Despite all the opposition to the falsification of history, attempts to deny such dark pages of the past as the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide and the Holodomor in Ukraine do not stop. The creators of the so-called alternative theories, not being able to generally deny these events, they try to cast doubt on their reliability, refuting insignificant historical evidence.

The relation of art to historical authenticity

The fight against counterfeiters is a common cause

Among the most effective ways to counteract attempts to falsify the history of our country, one should first of all name the commission created under the President of the Russian Federation, whose tasks include combating this harmful phenomenon. Of no small importance in this direction are the locally created public organizations. Only by joint efforts can we put a barrier to this evil.

AT last years in our country, such a concept as “falsification of history” has become especially widespread. Of course, at first glance, this phrase seems incomprehensible. How can you distort the facts that have already taken place? But, nevertheless, the rewriting of history is a phenomenon that takes place in modern society and has its roots in the distant past. The very first examples of documents in which history was falsified have been known since the time of Ancient Egypt.

Methods and techniques

The authors whose works reflect the distortion and falsification of history, as a rule, do not indicate the sources of their "factual" judgments. Only occasionally in such works are references to various publications that either do not exist at all, or they clearly do not relate to the subject of the publication.

One can say about this method that it is not so much a forgery of the known as its addition. In other words, this is not a falsification of history, but ordinary myth-making.

A more subtle way of distorting the existing facts is the falsification of primary sources. Sometimes the falsification of world history becomes possible on the basis of "sensational" archaeological discoveries. Sometimes authors make references to previously unknown documents. These can be “unpublished” chronicle materials, diaries, memoirs, etc. In such cases, only a special examination can reveal a fake, which the interested party either does not conduct, or falsifies the results obtained by it.

One of the methods of distorting history is the one-sided selection of certain facts and their arbitrary interpretation. As a result of this, connections are being built that were absent in reality. It is simply impossible to call the conclusions made on the basis of the obtained picture true. With this method of falsifying history, certain events or documents described actually took place. However, researchers draw their conclusions with a purposeful and gross violation of all methodological foundations. The purpose of such publications may be to justify a certain historical character. Those sources that give negative information about him are simply ignored or their hostility is noted, and therefore falsity. At the same time, documents that indicate the presence of positive facts are used as a basis and are not criticized.

There is another special technique that, in essence, can be located between the methods described above. It lies in the fact that the author gives a real, but at the same time truncated quote. It omits places that are in clear contradiction with the conclusions necessary for the mythologist.

Goals and motives

Why falsify history? The goals and motives of the authors who publish publications that distort the events that have taken place can be very diverse. They relate to the ideological or political sphere, affect commercial interests, etc. But in general, the falsification of the history of the world pursues goals that can be combined in two groups. The first of these includes socio-political motives (gepolitical, political and ideological). Most of them are closely connected with anti-state propaganda.

The second group of goals includes commercial and personal-psychological motives. In their list: the desire to gain fame and assert themselves, as well as to become famous in a short time, giving the society a "sensation" that can turn over all existing ideas about the past. The dominant factor in this case is, as a rule, the material interests of the authors, who earn good money by publishing large editions of their works. Sometimes the motives that prompted the distortion historical facts, can be explained by the desire for revenge on individual opponents. Sometimes such publications are aimed at belittling the role of government representatives.

Historical heritage of Russia

A similar problem exists in our country. At the same time, falsification national history regarded as anti-Russian propaganda. Often, publications that distort the events that have taken place are born in states both near and far abroad. They are directly related to the current material and political interests of various forces and contribute to the justification of material and territorial claims against the Russian Federation.

The problem of falsification of history and opposition to such facts is very relevant. After all, it affects the state interests of Russia and damages the social memory of the country's citizens. And this fact has been repeatedly emphasized by the leadership of our state. In order to respond in a timely manner to such challenges, a special commission has even been created under the President of Russia, whose task is to counter any attempts to falsify history that damage state interests.

Main directions

Unfortunately, in modern times, the falsification of the history of Russia has begun to take on quite impressive proportions. At the same time, authors who explore and describe the past boldly cross all ideological barriers in their publications, and also grossly break moral and ethical norms. The reader was literally flooded with a stream of misinformation, to understand which ordinary person just impossible. What are the main directions of falsification of history?

Classic

These historical falsifications have migrated to us from past centuries. The authors of such articles claim that the Russians are aggressors and that they are a constant threat to all civilized mankind. In addition, such publications characterize our people as dark barbarians, drunkards, savages, etc.

Russophobic

These falsifications are picked up by our intelligentsia and transplanted into our own soil. Such a distortion of history gives rise to a complex of self-abasement and national inferiority. After all, according to him, everything is fine in Russia, but people do not know how to live culturally. This supposedly forces one to repent for one's past. But before whom? Foreigners, that is, those ideological enemies who organized such sabotage, become judges.

These directions of distortion of historical facts at first glance seem antagonistic. However, both of them fit perfectly into the anti-Russian and anti-Russian channel. Anyone who tries to denigrate our history perfectly uses both tools at the same time, despite their apparent opposite. So, when relying on communist arguments, humiliation occurs tsarist Russia. At the same time, in order to denigrate the Soviet Union, the arguments of the most rabid critics of the idea of communism are used.

Distortion of the activities of key figures

Another direction in which the falsification of the history of Russia is carried out is criticism directed against various prominent personalities.

Thus, the distortion of facts can often be found in works about St. Vladimir the Baptist, St. Andrei Bogolyubsky, St. Alexander Nevsky, etc. There is even a certain pattern. The greater the contribution to the development of the country was made by this or that figure, the more persistently and aggressively they try to denigrate him.

Distortion of the events of national history

This is one of the favorite directions of mythologists who are trying to slander our country. And here special priority belongs to the events of the Great Patriotic War. It's pretty easy to explain. In order to belittle Russia, these authors are trying to cross out and obscure the most grandiose and brilliant feat of our state, which, without any doubt, saved the entire civilized world. The period from 1941 to 1945 provides a large field of activity for such mythologists.

Thus, the most distorted moments of the war are the assertions that:

The USSR was preparing for an attack on Germany;
the Soviet and Nazi systems are identical, and the victory of the people occurred against the wishes of Stalin;
the role of the Soviet-German front is not so great, and Europe owes its liberation from the fascist yoke to the allies;
Soviet soldiers who have accomplished feats are not heroes at all, while traitors, SS men, and others are praised;
loss of two opposing sides clearly exaggerated by politicians, and the number of victims of the peoples of the USSR and Germany is much less;
not so much for high level It was military art Soviet commanders, and the country won only due to huge losses and victims.

What is the purpose of falsifying the history of the war? Thus, the "purifiers" of the facts that have already occurred are trying to ground and crush the war itself and nullify the feat of the Soviet people. However, the whole truth of this terrible tragedy of the 20th century lies in the great spirit of patriotism and desire ordinary people come to victory at any cost. This was the most defining element in the life of the army and the people of that time.

Theories that go against Westernism

At present, many of the most amazing versions of the development of the social system in Russia have appeared. One of them is Eurasianism. It denies the existence of the Mongol-Tatar yoke, and these mythologists raise the Horde khans to the level of Russian tsars. A similar direction announces the symbiosis of the Asian peoples and Russia. On the one hand, these theories are friendly to our country.

After all, they call on both peoples to work together to counter the common slanderers and enemies. However, upon closer examination, such versions are a clear analogue of Westernism, only vice versa. Indeed, in this case, the role of the great Russian people, which supposedly should be subordinate to the East, is belittled.

Neo-pagan falsification

This is a new direction of distortion of historical facts, which at first glance seems pro-Russian and patriotic. With its development, works are allegedly discovered that testify to the primordial wisdom of the Slavs, their ancient traditions and civilizations. However, they also contain the problem of falsifying the history of Russia. After all, such theories are in fact extremely dangerous and destructive. They are aimed at undermining true Russian and Orthodox traditions.

Historical terrorism

This rather new direction sets itself the goal of blowing up the very foundation historical science. The most striking example of this is the theory that was created by a group led by a mathematician, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences A. Fomenko. This work considers questions about a radical revision of world history.

The scientific community has rejected this theory, explaining that it contradicts established facts. Opponents of the "New Chronology" were historians and archaeologists, mathematicians and linguists, astronomers and physicists, as well as scientists representing other sciences.

Introduction of historical forgeries

On the present stage this process has its own characteristics. Thus, the impact is carried out in a massive way and has a clearly targeted character. The most dangerous fakes for the state have solid sources of funding and are published in huge circulation. These, in particular, include the work of Rezun, who wrote under the pseudonym "Suvorov", as well as Fomenko.

In addition, today the most important source of dissemination of articles about the falsification of history is the Internet. Almost every person has access to it, which contributes to the mass impact of fakes.

Unfortunately, the financing of fundamental historical science does not allow it to provide tangible resistance to the emerging works that are in conflict with the events that actually happened. Academic works are also published in small editions.

Sometimes some Russian historians are also captive to falsifications. They accept Soviet, anti-Soviet or Western theories. To confirm this, one can recall one of the school history textbooks, in which statements were made that the turning point of World War II was the battle of the American army with the Japanese at Midway Atoll, and not the Battle of Stalingrad.

What are the attacks of counterfeiters? They are aimed at accustoming the Russian people to the thought that they do not have a glorious and great past, and the achievements of their ancestors should not be proud of. From native history the younger generation is turning away. And such work has its depressing results. After all, the vast majority of today's youth are not interested in history. In this way, Russia is trying to destroy the past and erase the former power from memory. And therein lies a great danger to the country. Indeed, when a people is separated from its cultural and spiritual roots, it simply dies as a nation.