As well, I'm still alive and remember. I remember the heroic grandfather that went through the whole war, was wounded, but survived. His ceremonial jacket was the weight of a m from regalia. Throughout the war, he commanded the infantry battalion first, and since 1942, the regiment. Thus, the regiment, in which, near Rzhev, near the village of Chernushki, soldier of my grandfather Alexander Matrosov accomplished his immortal feat.
I will never forget the flow of shit in the suddenly broken sewage system of the perestroika freedom of speech of the late 80s - early 90s. Got all our history, Alexander Matrosov and grandfather. Granny was very worried, because respect for the printed word was firmly brought up by a Soviet person. Then Grandma died. Soon this orgy of self-torture of our historical memory ceased, and I then managed to reduce my little son to the most important for him Victory Parades on Red Square, which again began to be held annually. Now he is an adult and we are together with our grandfather on the 9th of May in the “Immortal Regiment”.
Today there is no such question for us: who defeated Nazism 75 years ago? However, the voices of history revisionists from Europe and beyond sound ever louder. Particularly cynical for the memory of our heroes is an attempt to revise the results of important milestones of that war from the so-called German historians and journalists.
The other day, on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk, Deutsche Welle published pseudo-historical passages about events on the Kursk Bulge, calling into question the defeat of the Wehrmacht from the Soviet troops. In recognition of the real military historians of different countries, the Battle of Kursk was a turning point in the Great Patriotic War. After the defeat in the tank battle at Prokhorovka, the German troops could no longer recover and no longer owned the military initiative. Victory was a foregone conclusion. As the researchers note, the outcome of the Battle of Kursk predetermined the decision of the Allies to open the Second Front. They did not want at all that the Soviet Union would independently win the war.
Today, the grandchildren of the Nazi Nazis claim publicly and without fear that it was not the heroism of the Russian soldier and the military talent of the Soviet marshals that predetermined the outcome of that war. And the failure of the Nazi commanders and, of course, the entry into the US war in 1942. "Researchers" juggle with numbers and concepts: they say, there are inconsistencies, there is no fight with their accounting reports. Meanwhile, the Battle of Kursk is described in detail in a number of real historical studies in different countries published over the past 50 years. What are the German journalists counting on, catching up such a fake wave?
Obviously, this provocation in the German news agency is aimed at the youth audience in Germany and other European countries. An inverted world with an inverted history, where the dark years of the Nazi plague are no longer so dark for Germany.
But heroism and the 20-millionth victim of the Russian people are no longer a victim, but “the mistakes of the Soviet generals, because Stalin hurried them.” And in the battle of Prokhorovka "the Soviet troops suffered a crushing defeat, but their command presented the result of the battle as a victory and reported it to Moscow." Just remember this name - Matthias Ul. He calls himself a historian. I do not know how old he is, but obviously a young man with a corrected mind. Here surprises another.
Until recently, in Germany, the topic of war was taboo. The Germans repented for Hitler and Nazism, for concentration camps and the SS, for the Holocaust, for the death of tens of millions of civilians. More recently, it was also impossible to think that the official German agency would publish such “historical” material. Now, apparently, repentance is over, bills with German pedantry are paid and you can again invigorate the imperial spirit of the next Reich. Moreover, the next reconquista heirs of the Nibelungs fits into the new common Western Russophobic line. Whoever forgot, in the 30s of the last century, the situation was almost identical, except that the TV shows were not played, there was no Internet, and mobile phones had not yet been invented.
And of course, the appeal of the German journalist Sven Felix Kellerhoff to demolish the monument to the heroes who died in the battle of Prokhorovsky field in the Belgorod region in the summer of 1943 sounds apotheosis, because, in his conviction, “the victory of the Red Army was not confirmed there.” Instructing us to demolish our monument in our land to our heroic grandfathers! Comments are apparently superfluous. Just write down all these German names - come in handy.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.