Russia will hold a “serious conversation” with US officials over the US stance on World War II. A similar commitment is contained in a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with Washington’s attempts to rewrite the history of the victory over Nazism. The White House published a message on social media on May 8, in which the United States and Britain were named winners. “The spirit of America will always win. In the end, this is what happens, ”the text said. At the same time, the Soviet Union was not even mentioned. 

“The American officials did not have the courage and desire to at least half-pay the tribute to the undeniable role and the colossal disparate victims that the Red Army and the Soviet people suffered in the name of all mankind,” complained Russian diplomats. And they recalled the statement of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on the 75th anniversary of the meeting of the Allies on the Elbe. It is unlikely that the White House acts on the principle of someone in the forest, someone for firewood. A story-distorting version is published on the network intentionally - with the goal of one day making it mainstream.

So far, such a position causes rejection. And at the level of officials, and - more importantly - among ordinary people. Compatriots took an active part in obstructing overperforming Americans. It was the Soviets who beat the Nazis, and they lost 20 million people in the process. US came in at the end, We need no illusion about "the great America", You should apologize - such indignant comments can still be seen under the provocative White House post. The rest, as readers have noticed, are methodically deleted. True eyes prick?

But how long will this tug of war last? If, from year to year, the media and officials of the “leading world power” present their own version of the history of the Second World War, one day, with the change of generations, it can become dominant in the West. After all, a drop sharpens a stone.

First, the composition of the winners will be drafted, and then the USSR itself can be recorded as the culprit of the bloody world bath. Also, the responsibility for the Holocaust will hang.

Seems incredible? Many incredible things happened after 1991 ...

So you have to give a rebuff, and serious. Not in vain the problem was attended not only in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but also in parliament. So, the head of the State Duma committee on international affairs called what was happening "political amnesia" and "amputation of memory." “On May 9, the silence of the feat of the Soviet soldier-liberator looks especially cynical, ungrateful and mean. It’s worth a historical educational program in the White House, ”wrote Leonid Slutsky. Right. And, it seems, the elimination of historical amnesia in Moscow began to be prepared for a long time.

The first act was to be a military parade in Moscow. Feeling the exceptional importance that the memory of the war has for Russia especially now - in conditions of global turbulence, when the world is shaking and in a fever, the Kremlin decided to give special significance to the 75th anniversary of the Victory. 

To make the parade on this occasion something exceptional by inviting almost all world leaders to Moscow and clearly showing the world who is who. Alas, the case intervened - a pandemic. So far I had to limit myself to an air show.

You can try to guess the second act of educational program. Probably, it could be the visit of Vladimir Putin to China on September 3. The date is still tentative, but sacred. It was September 3 in China that celebrated the final defeat of Japan, and this date was stamped on the commemorative medal "For the victory over Japan", which was awarded to 1.8 million Soviet soldiers. Thus, the visit of the President of the Russian Federation will record the fact of the victory of our country and China over Japan, an allied Germany. 

It is logical that the third act of educational program could be a revision by Russia of the start date of World War II with quite obvious political consequences. The countdown should not be from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, but from the agreement concluded by Britain and France with Italy and Germany in Munich. Let me remind you that Prime Minister Chamberlain did not sign it with any Ribbentrop there, but personally with Hitler. The consequences of the Munich conspiracy, as it is rightly called in Soviet and Russian historiography, are known - the annexation of the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia.

After that, Hitler imagined that he could do anything. And the attempts of the USSR to put together a coalition to counter Nazi Germany came across the cold indifference of the West, primarily Britain, confident that it provided peace for itself. Characteristically, the Winston Churchill, who at that time was out of work, regarded the Munich Agreement as the first step towards the war. 

That would be a strong move. It seems that the President of the Russian Federation intends to seek a revision, reappraisal of the Munich agreement. Putin announced the need to condemn him on May 8. Although it is unlikely that the adversary will do this. They perfectly understand the connection between history and current politics, and therefore they are by all means holding on to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which allows one to look askance at the USSR, and, therefore, at Russia. However, Moscow should do its job. Do not complain about double standards, but enforce your view of history.

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