Russia is consistently implementing a strategy to protect the historical memory of the events of World War II.
We can talk about a whole front, because the battles are not at all comic.
That which until relatively recently could be heard from the lips of freaks, the public with certain mental characteristics or outspoken fighters of the ideological front, is now voiced with enviable constancy and persistence from the highest international platforms and tribunes.
The theme of World War II has become one of the main footholds, as well as weapons in the political battles of our time.
It can be recalled that in 2014, "democracy" in Ukraine, among other things, began to march with the words of the country's plenipotentiary to the UN, Yuri Sergeev, who called the data presented by the USSR to the Nuremberg Tribunal fake.
It was about the accusations of Ukrainian nationalists.
Everything is fake when the truth hurts your eyes.
This is how it gets overwritten, the inconvenient truth gets erased, its twist is done.
It is not at all Ukraine alone, of course, we are talking about a mass phenomenon, because we remember how many states had a hand in that massacre, if not with complicity, then with moral support or connivance.
Russia, as the successor country to the victorious Soviet Union, is undoubtedly responsible for the truth about that war, so it continues to mark red lines in this matter.
And we are not talking about purely her truth, not politically motivated, but, for example, enshrined in the verdicts of the Nuremberg Tribunal over Nazi criminals.
Endorsed by a victorious international community that triumphed over unconditional evil.
The Russian parliament has developed a package of bills to strengthen responsibility for the rehabilitation of Nazism.
It is proposed to register in the Criminal Code the strengthening of responsibility for “denial of the facts established by the judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the trial and punishment of the main war criminals of the European Axis countries, approval of the crimes established by the said sentence, as well as the spread of knowingly false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War, committed in public. "
It is also planned to extend the zone of responsibility for these acts to the Internet and provide for liability for legal entities for such, that is, for the media, which will be spelled out in a special paragraph in the article "Abuse of freedom of mass information" of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.
The bills have already been approved by the government commission.
The three directions in which the protection of historical memory is going are understandable: the categorical prohibition of denying and approving Nazi crimes, the impossibility of questioning the decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal, and lies regarding the role and activities of the victorious country - the USSR.
The latter is precisely the main object of effort for modern rewriters of history.
This is already a textbook technique: the Soviet Union is identified with fascist Germany, as in Ukraine, in order to justify the criminal acts of its own nationalists.
Modern Russia is surrounded on all sides with fascist terminology, they carry out associations, they like to draw mustache.
Some countries only in this way interpret any actions of Russia: occupation, aggression, annexation ... These are the current ideological attacks on the memory of the war, and through it - on Russia.
If during the years of perestroika they aimed at communism and ended up in Russia, now under all sights - World War II, because they understand where they want to go ...
And here everything is very simple: the Great Patriotic War is the basis of modern domestic axiology, and not at all in the sense, as critics say, that the country speculates with victory and memory for lack of new victories and achievements.
Victory is not an event point, not a date in the calendar, but the whole structure of the world, fixed by its results.
There are unconditionally condemned crimes established by Nuremberg, war criminals and victors.
A world was built by victory, which was protected from another such carnage.
That structure cracked with the collapse of the USSR.
The collapse itself was, among other things, a form of revising the outcome of the victory.
Russia is associated with victory not only by memory, forms of ceremonial and cult, but by a living tradition, substantively, which is why it has become its main national priority.
This is a question of self-awareness, the further development of the country and its existence in general.
The victory here is inscribed in a broad historiosophical context.
It is no accident that Russia has always perceived itself as a special cover over the world, protecting it, preserving it.
That is why all current "crusades" are aimed at breaking the country and its victories, at driving a wedge and creating a split.
After all, the Soviet Union was destroyed in a similar way: they knocked out the ideological base until it was completely leveled and demonized, and through this, complexes of guilt were implanted.
A similar technique is being built in attempts to destroy the "fortress" of victory.
It is now the main essential constant of the country, standing over ideological, religious, national and other differences, having a huge potential for reconciliation, unification and creative work.
Victory is a common action in which the whole nation is involved.
Hence, the message and logic of the proposed legislative changes are clear: to interrupt the chain reaction of imposed opinions, cliches, forgeries, and inaccurate facts.
The information space is so arranged that once the news is launched, the information makes circles around itself.
At the same time, she begins to live her own life, and these "circles" are the same.
This is how a system of manipulations is built, which is extremely easy to digest: why turn on the brain when everything is chewed and even digested for you, pick up a loud scandalous sensation, a fashionable interpretation of events and take it uncritically.
Information is picked up, spread, becomes "irrefutable" proof, someone's expert point of view, and soon acquires the character of a statement and an immutable truth.
This is how the rigidly ideologized, rewritten "truth" about the Second World War is being introduced into the minds, behind which are the obvious ears of numerous interested parties.
The emphasis on the Internet and the media in the proposed draft laws is also understandable.
Now, through the Internet channels and the media, protests in various countries are being controlled, hotbeds of destabilization are being created.
We saw young people in the Polish office building an algorithm for the actions of the Belarusian turmoil and, in fact, admitting that in their case any means are good, including any untruth.
Similar methods - both on the fronts of historical memory, and significant forces are thrown there.
This is no longer just about falsifying facts, juggling with lies, but about building a fake picture of the world, which is passed off as reality.
Feykova both in relation to the history of the great war, and in relation to modern Russia.
One does not have to go far to illustrate that the confrontation on this issue is very serious.
It is on the assembly line and on an industrial scale.
For example, Latvia has launched a legislative process to ban the St. George's ribbon.
Soviet and fascist symbols are already equalized there.
Now they are going to outlaw modern symbols of memory.
Of course, it's not the ribbon - they want to ban and abolish Russia.
The country now understands that defending the truth about that war is the most important strategic direction, it directly relates to national security, and now we have not just a discussion field and the struggle of various versions, but, in fact, we are faced with a massive attack of historical "extremism".
That is why an amendment was made to the Constitution of the country that the derogation of the feat of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War is not allowed.
And the Russian parliament has repeatedly expressed concern about attacks on history.
Speaker Viacheslav Volodin said that “everything must be done to protect history,” and this defense is one of the main directions of the work of the national parliament.
Parliament is deploying this protection not only within the country, but also on the international arena.
The same Volodin recently at the CSTO parliamentary assembly called on the participating countries to “defend history, defend those who cannot defend themselves today.
They stayed in the countries of Europe, these are our grandfathers, great-grandfathers.
We here all represent the countries that participated in this war, fighting fascism.
We must do everything to protect the memory of those who allowed us to live. "
It is about unity for the sake of victory, so that "the tragedy that took tens of millions of lives does not happen again."
It is necessary to approach this issue carefully, carefully, so that the law does not turn into a club.
Otherwise, this in turn will be blasphemy and dancing in memory.
Therefore, a question arises in law enforcement practice.
To avoid excesses in it, you just need to understand the goals and objectives that are.
Do not punish, pinch and oppress.
We are talking about identifying fundamentally important things, sending signals to society with a proposal to defend them jointly, because defending victory is a common matter, a matter of preserving our national civilization.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.