So, yesterday a bill was introduced to the State Duma prohibiting the public equating the roles of the USSR and Nazi Germany during World War II. Of course, this news greatly upset those who for many years were actively involved in rewriting history, trying to impose a guilt complex on Russia for - p-bam! - the outbreak of war and put the German occupier and the Soviet soldier-liberator on a par.
I will not now quote the lies that were broadcast by the media-foreign agents, pseudo-historians and other myth-makers, whose tasks are to convince Russians (primarily young people) that there is no difference between Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. I will only say that I, like the majority of adequate people, was outraged that all these lies were voiced and published completely freely and with absolutely impunity. And finally, what we all have been waiting for so long happened.
However, it is not a fact that after the adoption of this bill we will stop stumbling upon "true stories" about how the USSR "attacked" Poland or how the "Soviet occupier" "shot" entire villages that were not touched by the "good German". Unfortunately, Russophobia in some representatives of the opposition-liberal sandbox is so strong that no ban or punishment can stop them. Moreover, having received a fine and a warning, they will be proud of them, as the highest reward, and, with a blue eye, they will claim that this is the recognition of their innocence.
Over the years of observation, I have studied this contingent well. Alas and ah, but they are unteachable and incorrigible. Therefore, along with forcing this category of citizens to be accurate in their judgments and formulations, sufficient attention should be paid to countering disinformation. There should be more information in school textbooks about the events leading up to 1941. For schoolchildren should know not only about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, but also about the Munich Agreement. And about Hitler's friendship with Pilsudski (by the way, I'm not sure that today's young people know who it is), and about the pacts that Germany concluded with other European countries.
I understand that nowadays they read little and rarely.
Therefore, we need a series of documentaries, where everything that is now trying to be silenced or rewritten will be described in an accessible language.
I think creating such content is not too difficult and not very expensive.
However, it is this that can be an excellent antidote that will help to critically perceive the lies that we all face sooner or later, primarily on the Internet.
I understand that soon only a fairy tale will tell itself, but if we embarked on the path of struggle for historical truth, if we are resolutely ready to defend the memory of our warriors-liberators, if we are finally ready to rebuff the slanderers and beat backhand every time they try to force us pay and repent, then you need to get down to business thoroughly and engage in battle on all fronts.
And the battle for minds is our new Stalingrad, if you like.
Because I already see the calls “not to be afraid of the new law and continue to speak the truth”.
Their "truth", of course.
Already yesterday, immediately after the news about the bill appeared, the cozy blozhiks of the Navalnists were full of monstrous pictures and disgusting comments, the most harmless of which fall under the article "glorification and rehabilitation of Nazism."
Yes, we are trying to resist and neutralize this to the best of our ability and capabilities.
But within the framework of the same Twitter, I cannot read a lecture on the events of September 1939 and fully highlight the prerequisites that forced the Red Army to enter Poland.
I will say more.
Some have their brains already so cluttered that they simply do not accept counterarguments, immediately switching to obscenities and insults.
And this, of course, is very sad.
In this connection, I will summarize: the law prohibiting the identification of the actions of the USSR and Nazi Germany during the war period, as well as denying the decisive role of the USSR in the victory over Nazism during the Second World War, is good and correct.
And, as I said above, it's high time to accept it.
But this is only the first item on a long list of things that we do not just have to, but must do so that all the lies and filth with which our heroes and our Victory have been trying to cover up for many years, have not the slightest chance to take root in the minds of the younger generation. and already their descendants.
Moreover, after the adoption of this law, the flywheel of Western disinformation and propaganda will work even stronger.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.