Paper's full title: Foreign Ministry report on the glorification of Nazism, the spread of neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination.
Russia's fight for historical memory is vital for our future. The distortions of history now openly practised by the West's media, politicians and, of course, Holywood would not have been possible while survivors of World War II were alive: my father, grandfather, uncle and father-in-law all fought the Nazis - they have all passed. Needless to say, they would have been horrified to see cynical clowns like Boris Johnson invite Azov fascists to the House of Commons and present them as 'fighters for freedom'.
The erosion or distortion of historical memory paves the way for every evil now being foisted onto the public by the 'rulers' in the West. As your excellent article points out, Karl, 'we didn't vote for this', so why do people accept it?
These monuments are initiated, produced and financed by Russia for propaganda purposes states the norvegian professor of russiaan history Kari Aga Myklebost.
Reader response numbers provide part of the answer as fewer bother opening and reading these sorts of reports, which is something I've noticed as a trend of sorts. The old out-of-sight-out-of-mind bit of psychology is clearly in play. As archives are opened and classified docs declassified, a much clearer picture of the level of coordination of Europeans and Americans with the Nazis can be discerned, but people must want to know as BigLie Media won't inform them. So, yes, Russia and China's documentation and publication of these types of reports are important for telling the world what the West doesn't want people to know.
karl, good to read the Russian perspective. The Russophobia in the the Baltics, Poland, has to be understood in the light of the past history - Russia was a powerful nation (in 18 and 19th centuries) and had no qualms to invade neighbors and used terror to suppress opposition. Uprisings were brutally suppressed. Memory of these Russian and later Soviet outrages is still a fodder for Russophobia. The West is skillfully using these patriots - who themselves were/are racists - to stoke the hatreds. Modern Russia is not the evil empire anymore, it does not need or want more territories, but wants to be left in peace, and for that it needs peaceful neighborhood.
I want to make it clear that it was actually Russia that had to fear invasions from its neighbors for the last hundreds of years. French, Balts, Poles, Swedes all invaded Russia. The Swedes were defeated in Poltava 1709, and last week Swedes were killed by Iskander rockets at military school in Poltava.
The Poles and the Polish-Lithuania Empire were often at war with Russia for conquest.
After WWI when Russia was in civil war, Red army against White army. Russia's neighbors became independent from Russia, from Prussia, from Austria-Hungary. The whole region was at war, and these new countries all wanted pieces of Russia that were once theirs long ago.
This is why there is a Russian population living in Ukraine, in the Baltic States.
These wars were supported by Western European countries, even by the bankrupt Germany, France even sent a small army to Kiev. Here the First and Second Ukrainian Republics were created.
With the division of Poland, the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop Pact, the Polish war threat was stopped for Russia and at the same time a buffer zone against Nazi Germany was created.
There are many lies about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and Russia is portrayed as an ally of Nazi Germany, again this is a lie.
Thanks for your comment; you are correct as far as the facts that Russia was invaded over centuries by people from the west and - even more gravely - from the east; Russia lived for about 3 centuries under the Mongols. The Russian nation survived and grew and became huge powerful state. The Russians did commit atrocities, such as the Katyn massacre of Polish officers, over 20,000 if my memory serves. President Putin did take responsibility for Stalin/Beria/Kaganovitch and one or two more signatories of that memo and did apologize to Poles for it. So, the fact is that Russia today is different from the zarist or Soviet times - but the memories still linger and aggrieved ones are perpetuating the hatreds.
On the issue of Ribbentrop/Molotov pact, I cannot say much, I am not historian, but I only can say that on the face of it, it was another (fourth !) division of Poland between Germany and Russia (Soviet Union). The nitty gritty of the history, if Stalin was justified, or Hitler was justified - is a bit contrived. I know, that some people tend to see Lenin and Stalin in better colors now, and tend to stress the positive aspects of bringing prosperity to the common laborers, workers, in the name of communist paradise. But that is whole different discussion.
thank you, karl. archived & shared. blessings.
Russia's fight for historical memory is vital for our future. The distortions of history now openly practised by the West's media, politicians and, of course, Holywood would not have been possible while survivors of World War II were alive: my father, grandfather, uncle and father-in-law all fought the Nazis - they have all passed. Needless to say, they would have been horrified to see cynical clowns like Boris Johnson invite Azov fascists to the House of Commons and present them as 'fighters for freedom'.
The erosion or distortion of historical memory paves the way for every evil now being foisted onto the public by the 'rulers' in the West. As your excellent article points out, Karl, 'we didn't vote for this', so why do people accept it?
25000 russians was killed during the liberation of Norway in WW2- less than 10000 Norwegians were killed, but:
War Monuments are used as russian Propaganda om Norwegian soil
3 monuments are to be destoyd/removed in Finnmark- the northermost Oblast of Norway
https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/mener-krigsmonument-er-russisk-propaganda-pa-norsk-jord-1.16991120
These monuments are initiated, produced and financed by Russia for propaganda purposes states the norvegian professor of russiaan history Kari Aga Myklebost.
Sad, sad story
Thank you Karl for your heavy lifting
If that's her(?) assessment, then she's no historian, but a propagandist. Perhaps a Nazi too.
Reader response numbers provide part of the answer as fewer bother opening and reading these sorts of reports, which is something I've noticed as a trend of sorts. The old out-of-sight-out-of-mind bit of psychology is clearly in play. As archives are opened and classified docs declassified, a much clearer picture of the level of coordination of Europeans and Americans with the Nazis can be discerned, but people must want to know as BigLie Media won't inform them. So, yes, Russia and China's documentation and publication of these types of reports are important for telling the world what the West doesn't want people to know.
This government makes me ashamed of being Italian.
thanks karl... kudos to the russians for staying on top of this...
karl, good to read the Russian perspective. The Russophobia in the the Baltics, Poland, has to be understood in the light of the past history - Russia was a powerful nation (in 18 and 19th centuries) and had no qualms to invade neighbors and used terror to suppress opposition. Uprisings were brutally suppressed. Memory of these Russian and later Soviet outrages is still a fodder for Russophobia. The West is skillfully using these patriots - who themselves were/are racists - to stoke the hatreds. Modern Russia is not the evil empire anymore, it does not need or want more territories, but wants to be left in peace, and for that it needs peaceful neighborhood.
I want to make it clear that it was actually Russia that had to fear invasions from its neighbors for the last hundreds of years. French, Balts, Poles, Swedes all invaded Russia. The Swedes were defeated in Poltava 1709, and last week Swedes were killed by Iskander rockets at military school in Poltava.
The Poles and the Polish-Lithuania Empire were often at war with Russia for conquest.
After WWI when Russia was in civil war, Red army against White army. Russia's neighbors became independent from Russia, from Prussia, from Austria-Hungary. The whole region was at war, and these new countries all wanted pieces of Russia that were once theirs long ago.
This is why there is a Russian population living in Ukraine, in the Baltic States.
These wars were supported by Western European countries, even by the bankrupt Germany, France even sent a small army to Kiev. Here the First and Second Ukrainian Republics were created.
With the division of Poland, the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop Pact, the Polish war threat was stopped for Russia and at the same time a buffer zone against Nazi Germany was created.
There are many lies about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and Russia is portrayed as an ally of Nazi Germany, again this is a lie.
Thanks for your comment; you are correct as far as the facts that Russia was invaded over centuries by people from the west and - even more gravely - from the east; Russia lived for about 3 centuries under the Mongols. The Russian nation survived and grew and became huge powerful state. The Russians did commit atrocities, such as the Katyn massacre of Polish officers, over 20,000 if my memory serves. President Putin did take responsibility for Stalin/Beria/Kaganovitch and one or two more signatories of that memo and did apologize to Poles for it. So, the fact is that Russia today is different from the zarist or Soviet times - but the memories still linger and aggrieved ones are perpetuating the hatreds.
On the issue of Ribbentrop/Molotov pact, I cannot say much, I am not historian, but I only can say that on the face of it, it was another (fourth !) division of Poland between Germany and Russia (Soviet Union). The nitty gritty of the history, if Stalin was justified, or Hitler was justified - is a bit contrived. I know, that some people tend to see Lenin and Stalin in better colors now, and tend to stress the positive aspects of bringing prosperity to the common laborers, workers, in the name of communist paradise. But that is whole different discussion.