Parliamentarians of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation joined efforts in the fight against falsification of history

Viktor ZAVARZIN, a State Duma deputy and Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee, and Kanybek IMANALIEV, a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz Republic and Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Committee, joined efforts in opposing the falsifiers of the history of the Second World War in an article Parliamentarians Against Falsification of History.
“In a number of European countries, targeted attacks on the outcomes of the Second World War are on the rise. A number of falsifiers carry out a political put-up job of certain revanchist forces: to distort the world history and denigrate the role of the Soviet people in the victory over fascism,” says the article. “Surprisingly, the more absurd fabrications are, the faster they find their niche in the public consciousness of certain countries and they are even expressed officially,” the researchers write. “For instance, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which for all intents and purposes equates Hitler’s Germany and the Soviet Union, hinting or openly saying that the USSR is responsible for the outbreak of the Second World War.”
According to the authors of the article, the falsifications mainly try to instil an idea that the main culprits of the Second World War are on the one hand, Hitler, and on the other hand, Stalin as someone who took part in its initiation. The purpose of all this is to entangle the issue of the causes of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War; to justify the governments and financial oligarchy of the leading world powers of that time – the main culprits of what happened; to present in a distorted light historical background wars, to break the historical and ethical code of perception of the Great Patriotic War by instilling in the minds of the public various insidious myths about the nature of the war, the scale of losses, the price of the Victory, etc.
The article deals in detail with legislative, legal, psychological and pedagogical aspects of a system to counteract massive deception. It also introduces into modern academic circulation a new concept of “mnemonic security” as a security of the memory about the history of one’s nation and state.
The article is available at www.paodkb.org.
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