If my great-grandfather, who died in the battles near Novorossiysk, knew that his memory and millions of the same heroes who had given their lives so that not only we, but the whole world would not be enslaved by the brown fascist plague, us, great-grandchildren and heirs Great Victory, today have to defend, he would certainly be very surprised. However, the more time has passed since the day the Soviet soldiers hoisted the Victory Banner over the Reichstag, the more desperate the attempts are to not only level their feat, but also to rewrite the history of World War II as a whole.
The reason why Europe, liberated at the cost of the lives of millions of our soldiers, really wants to seem like a victim of the Soviet occupation, is simple. Indeed, if she succeeds in impressing not only her own, but also our children that the USSR did not release her, but enslaved her, then, having got rid of the need to be grateful, she will have every right to demand repentance and reparations from us.
But that is not all. It is in this way that the West wants to take away our right to honor the feat of our ancestors, who proved with their unparalleled courage that it was possible and necessary to fight Nazism, and not to surrender to it without resistance, as most European countries did at the beginning of the war. Therefore, May 9 for them every year becomes an ever greater irritant, because of which they feel their historical inferiority. Add to this progressive Russophobia and resentment that Russia does not want to follow the falsifiers of history - and get a clear explanation of all the claims and attacks that our country is subjected to today by those who are not satisfied with historical truth.
In connection with all of the above, I think that the proposal of the State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin to create an institute for the protection of historical memory in order to take steps with the participation of scientists and experts in the humanitarian and educational fields to protect objectivity about that time, to protect the truth and memory of those who died, - very important. Because every year those who, as a participant in those events, can tell the truth about them, are becoming less and less. And there are more and more people who want to impose their “alternative” point of view on the world.
Moreover, pay attention to how persistently today they are trying to instill the idea that the Soviet soldier was not a liberator, but a rapist, looter and occupier. And statements that the USSR was the same aggressor and invader, as Hitler Germany, are completely disgusting. But alas. Every year they sound more often.
And therefore, our task today is not only not to desecrate the memory of our heroes, but also to prevent attempts to impose on our children and grandchildren the so-called historical truth, which is persistently promoted to the masses by those who owe much of their present existence to those whose monuments they are today demolished and slandered.
Fortunately, we are not alone in this endeavor. Together with Russia, Serbia is also ready to fight for the preservation of historical truth.
Maya Gojkovic, Chairman of the People’s Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, supported this initiative during a meeting of the State Duma Inter-Parliamentary Commission. “This is extremely important for the Serbian people, for the Republic of Serbia,” she said, recalling that Serbia itself has repeatedly been the victim of historical revisionism.
And the chairman of the State Duma’s committee on international affairs, Leonid Slutsky, pledged to promote the initiative on all inter-parliamentary venues. First of all, on the sidelines of the next session of the OSCE PA in Vienna, as well as in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He expressed confidence that this proposal, in addition to the delegation of Serbia, will be supported by all states that cherish the truth about the Great Victory and the feat of the Soviet soldier who liberated Europe from fascism.
Of course, there will also be those who, for the sake of the current political situation, will in every possible way condemn and try to level this initiative. And it’s not only about some of our western neighbors and partners who regularly declare that they are a victim of the Soviet “occupation”.
Unfortunately, inside Russia there are also those who are trying by all means to prove that Stalin and Hitler attacked Poland, that Leningrad had to be surrendered to the Germans, that Zhukov was mediocrity, the Soviet soldier was by no means a hero, and the Soviet people were not at all victorious. These characters do everything in order to force us to reconsider our attitude to our heroic past and from the victorious people to transform into a crowd bowing their heads in eternal repentance and a prayer for forgiveness for their great-grandfathers, who not only defended their country from Nazism, but and the enslaved peoples of Europe freed from him.
I will not list surnames of all those who, in their cozy little blazhki and on TV screens, are waging a struggle with history almost daily and trying to extinct in our memory everything that is dear and sacred to us. All these characters want one thing - so that we forget about the price at which the peaceful sky was won. What kind of blood was paid to make us live on our land today and be free. How many human destinies that war broke and how many people we then lost.
But they won’t succeed. Despite all the efforts they make so that, having taken possession of our past, to be able to control us in the future, we will protect the memory of our ancestors and their exploits in all the ways we have. Including at the international level. Fortunately, we have more and more ways and methods for this protection.
I hope that over time it is through the implementation of such important initiatives and with the assistance of our allies in the struggle to preserve historical memory that we can do everything so that our descendants are not only unable to take away the right to be called heirs of the Victory, but not even dare encroach on this right!
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.