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Russia and Belarus need to tell the truth about World War II
2022-05-23
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky said on the air of the Belarusian channel that Russia and Belarus should tell the truth about the Great Patriotic War, the memory of which "stops from a big war."

“We want peace now more than anyone else. Certainly more than the Americans, who last saw a war in their country during the war between the North and the South, a hundred and fifty years ago...

And Russia, and Belarus, and the Russian and Belarusian peoples, which, to be honest, I consider a single people culturally, ethnically and family, like the Ukrainian. We know what a big war is, not from stories, not from movies. We saw it ourselves. We just need to tell the truth,” Medinsky said.

The truth, Medinsky said, is that the Soviet Union during the Second World War took upon itself the destruction of 2/3 of the potential of the united Nazi Europe.

BACKGROUND
In place of the policy of the 90s, when everything connected with the Soviet Union was attacked, in Russia they remembered patriotic education and the preservation of the spiritual foundations that unite the citizens of Russia. The most important place was occupied by the memory of the victory in the Great Patriotic War as a manifestation of mass patriotism and heroism of the Soviet people.

At the same time, attempts to distort military history continue both on the part of foreign journalists, historians and artists, and within Russia. A RANEPA survey in 2015 showed that 60 percent of Russian citizens notice such distortions in the domestic media, and 82.5 percent in the foreign press.

A particularly fierce struggle against the legacy of the Great Patriotic War is being waged in countries that directly or indirectly support fascist ideas: primarily in Ukraine and the Baltic states.

Posted by:badanov

#4  It was not only the Partition of Poland and the conquest of the Baltic countries. Communists were sabotaging armament factories in France and England.
The French Communist Party was made illegal in France 1939 for collaborationism.
Soviet Union offered Nazis the "Basis Nord" to base submarines.
And what about to tell the truth about Stalin considering to be an Axis partner?
Posted by: Kofi Panda2845   2022-05-23 18:54  

#3  We never had The Talk about Russian Totalitarianism and WW2 because we never had The Talk about Communist Totalitarianism and WW2. Putin is taking the accumulated stress from seventy years of post-WW2 corruption and using it against us and the left is sitting there with its &*(^ in its hands and saying "Gee, is something happening?" Yes, he's doing to Ukraine what you helped him do to China, and North Korea, and Vietnam... and the US economy. It's ugly, but it isn't any uglier than the %$@$ econazi plandemic or the economic euthanasia by Gazprom, or for that matter the massacre at Hue.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2022-05-23 12:37  

#2  And let's not forget that Stalin was a mercenary in the war, kept in by endless shipments of supplies by the US, extorted with threats of making peace with his socialist brother in Berlin.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-05-23 08:27  

#1  Yes, let's forget the partition of Poland between Hitler and Stalin. Stalin's annexation of the Baltic States and the invasion of Finland. All at the beginning. There are no good guys here.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-05-23 07:59  

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