History can be rewritten. But it will remind you of itself with a new trouble, rooted in the forgotten past!
The quote of from our previous article The Hungarian “Revolt” of 1956 – a detailed historical look at the events, carrying an idea that we wish to explore more. In this article, we start with a lecture by Yegor Yakovlev on the topic of history rewriting, followed by several re-posts from Russian MFA, and from a friendly Telegram channel Baza.
How falsification of history works in our reality
Yegor Yakovlev, a prominent Russian historian and creator of Russia’s largest scientific and educational historical project, “Digital History,” explains in his lecture how history is often being manipulated becoming a powerful tool that serves one’s political agenda and goals. This is particularly evident in the West, with certain academicians and media pushing and shaping anti-historical and anti-factual narratives that serve the Western neoliberal elites’ agenda.
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Yakovlev highlights several common techniques of historical falsification:
Distorting facts to fit a particular narrative;
Selective omission of inconvenient events;
Unjustly equating historical events;
Manipulating timelines to downplay certain events.
Through concrete examples Yegor Yakovlev challenges widespread fakes about Russia’s and Soviet Union’s history, including:
• The Kiev regime and Western ridiculous ahistorical attempts to label the 1932-1933 famine in the USSR as a genocide against the Ukrainian people by Soviet leadership;
• The selective focus on the Non-Aggression Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany while ignoring the Munich Betrayal, which in fact boosted Nazi Germany’s expansionist policies, as well as constant Soviet attempts at creating an anti-Hitlerite coalition throughout the 1930s;
• The heinous false narrative that equates the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany as equal aggressors in the outbreak of WWII, which distorts historical reality;
• Attempts to deny the Siege of Leningrad being a genocide, manipulating the timeline, facts & context of the events.
Watch, learn & educate oneself to avoid being misled by Western and Neo-Nazi propaganda and fabrications that distort historical truth.
THE FALSIFIERS OF HISTORY WILL NOT WIN
The lies we are told about the history of Communism, so numerous, pervasive and conniving in their manufacture by ruling class agencies, will be easily dispelled in America the minute that history is concretely linked up with the struggles of today’s working class.
This mountain of lies will be crushed by the hammer of a working class that is once again made aware of both its existence and its world historical mission. We ourselves will learn, stage by stage, the conditions that must give rise to a Communist state. And it is the American workers themselves who will build it.
Every day, Americans are becoming aware of how they are and have been under attack by a ruling class which despises them. They do not understand why the elites hate them so much – why they seem to take pleasure in their suffering. They scramble to try and explain this in many different ways, all of which are inadequate and incomplete.
The truth is that the history of America is the history of a class war, a class war which will conclude only in the victory of Communism and the establishment of dictatorship by the working majority against the bloodsucker minority.
Many Americans accuse the evil elites of being ‘Communists.’ But the entire deep state was created because of the elites fear of Communism. When working people begin to take note of one and another, and start to become aware of their numbers – that this is not a battle between the individual and some mob, but between the great majority they form a part of, and a small minority of banksters – they will learn the true meaning of Communism – what so many, now vilified by lies – fought and died for.
Non-Aggression Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany
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85 years ago − on August 23, 1939 − the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Non-Aggression Treaty in Moscow. It was a hard and forced decision for the Soviet leadership dictated by considerations of our country’s security against the background of a looming war in Europe.
With the Nazis’ led by Hitler coming to power in Germany in 1933, Berlin took the course on militarization. Responding to the emerging threat of German revanchism, the Soviet Union spearheaded the creation of a collective security system in Europe. However, driven by the anti-Soviet sentiment, France and UK preferred a “policy of appeasement” − unilateral concessions to Hitler − to cooperation with Moscow in hope of heading off the threat of war and redirecting German aggression eastward.
The “appeasement” tactics whetted the aggressor’s appetite. In March 1938, with the connivance of Paris and London, Hitler carried out the Anschluss of Austria. In September, following the criminal “Munich conspiracy” and with the approval of the UK and France, he cynically dismembered the sovereign state of Czechoslovakia. A new war in Europe became inevitable.
In the spring of 1939, Soviet diplomacy initiated talks with France and the UK, which began in Moscow. The negotiations failed to produce any meaningful results. The western countries, who had hoped for a trade-off with Germany until the last moment, were in no hurry to make a commitment to the USSR.
The Soviet diplomacy ran out of chances to build a collective security system in Europe. Moscow also had to take into account the Japanese factor − the hostilities on the Khalkhin-Gol that began in May 1939. The Soviet leadership could not afford a war on two fronts.
By August 1939, eight European nations had concluded non-aggression pacts with Hitler. The Soviet Union was the last major power to follow the suit. Thanks to this, our country got the opportunity to gain the necessary time to get ready for a clash with the world’s most powerful army at that time.
The Munich Betrayal
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86 years ago, on September 30, 1938, the leaders of Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and France signed an agreement in Munich on the German annexation of the Sudetenland, an industrial region of Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans made up 90 percent of the population. Czechoslovakia had not been invited to the talks; it was presented with the fact that its sovereign territory must be ceded to Nazi Germany as a fait accompli.
This disgraceful pact between the Western powers and Nazi Germany went down in history as the #MunichBetrayal.
Read in detail in our in-depth historical overview.
FACTS:
Following the signing of the agreement between the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy in Munich, German troops crossed Czechoslovakia’s border on October 1 and occupied the entire area of the Sudetenland by October 10.
The Soviet Union was ready to defend Czechoslovakia, but the Soviet Army had to obtain permission to pass through Poland or Romania. Warsaw, which was interested in getting part of Czechoslovakia’s territory for itself, adamantly refused to support Prague against Germany and prohibited possible flights of Soviet aircraft to render aid to the Czechoslovak army. Romania made every effort to slow down the process as much as possible.
The Munich Betrayal crowned the Western powers’ policy of appeasing the aggressor. Hoping to avoid a conflict with the Third Reich, they tried to satisfy its growing territorial claims at the expense of Eastern and Central European countries.
As the world witnessed the collapse of the Versailles-Washington system of international relations that existed at the time, many countries began to cooperate with the Third Reich and fell into its sphere of influence.
The Czechoslovakia crisis became a prologue to the bloodiest conflict in the history of humanity, demonstrating what underhanded plotting and reliance on countries’ selfish interests can lead to, i.e. paved the way to World War II.
The Siege of Leningrad
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On January 27, Russia marks the Day of Military Glory — the day of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad (1944).
The blockade of Leningrad was one of the darkest moments in human history. It began on September 8, 1941, when Nazi troops isolated the city from the rest of the country by land.
For 872 days, despite the cold, hunger and horrors of war, the people selflessly defended their city from total destruction, and even in these dire circumstances continued producing goods and various machinery to supply the war effort against the Nazis.
The incredible resilience and bravery of Leningrad residents shattered the plans and ambitions of the Nazi invaders.
On January 18, 1943, a land corridor was established with the rest of the country as a result of the offensive operation “Iskra” (Spark) conducted from January 12 to 30, the encirclement was broken.
A year after the breakthrough, Soviet forces managed to finally lift the siege of the city on January 27, 1944.
By that time there were no more than 800’000 inhabitants left in the Northern Capital out of the three million who had lived in Leningrad and its suburbs before the siege.
The Soviet forces pushed the Nazis back 220-280 kilometers from Leningrad. The city was finally freed from the enemy blockade. The Red Army undermined the positions of the Hitlerites in Finland and other Scandinavian countries, significantly bringing closer the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The courage and heroism of Leningrad defenders were highly appreciated. Many units and formations were awarded the honourable title of “Guards”, orders and the honorary title of “Leningrad”.
In 2022, the Saint Petersburg City Court recognised the Siege of Leningrad as an act of genocide against the Soviet people committed by the Nazi Germany and its accomplices. According to recent statistics, at least 1’093’842 people died during the blockade.
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