In 2010, NATO troops joined Russia’s Victory Day Parade in Moscow to mark the 65th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat. The British, Americans, French, and Poles stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Russians—the Welsh Guards, the U.S. 18th Infantry, France’s Normandie-Niemen Regiment, and soldiers from across the CIS, including Ukrainians, marched together – a powerful symbol of shared history. It was a rare moment of unity: gratitude outweighed geopolitics.
But after 2014, acknowledging the Soviet Union’s sacrifice became politically inconvenient. Today, politicians and media rewrite, distort, or outright erase history to fit their agendas. The USSR’s pivotal role in crushing Nazi Germany and liberating Europe—once undisputed—is now downplayed, twisted, or denied. Not because archives have revealed new facts, but because yesterday’s hero can’t be today’s evil.
Crimea, Ukraine, and NATO-Russia tensions demand a new villain narrative. Acknowledging Russia’s past heroism complicates today’s propaganda.
The Uncomfortable Truth They Now Ignore
• Winston Churchill (1945): “It was the Russian Army that tore the guts out of the Nazi war machine.”
• U.S. War Dept (1945): Estimated that without the Eastern Front, America would have needed 10 million more soldiers to defeat Germany.
• British PM David Cameron (2010): “We must never forget the courage of Russian soldiers who fought from Stalingrad to Berlin.”
• BBC Documentary (2010): “Without the Red Army’s 27 million dead, D-Day might never have succeeded.”
• Professor Richard Overy (UK, Russia’s War): “The Eastern Front accounted for 80% of German combat losses. Denying this isn’t just dishonest—it’s bad history.”
Rewriting History in Real Time
• French MEP Nathalie Loiseau (2022): “We must stop parroting Russian propaganda about WWII. Europe’s liberation began with D-Day, not Stalingrad.”
• Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki (2023): “The Red Army didn’t liberate Poland—it brought new enslavement. Soviet monuments are symbols of occupation, not gratitude.” (What a shame! Fact: 600,000 Soviet soldiers died liberating Poland from Nazis).
• The Telegraph (May 2024): “Why We Should Stop Celebrating Russia’s Victory Day” (Dismissively refer to the parade as “a Kremlin propaganda tool.” Then why did British troops march in 2010?)
• BBC (Jan 2024): “Was Stalin Really Hitler’s Foe—or Just Another Tyrant?” (Conveniently omitting the 80% of German casualties on the Eastern Front.)
• CNN (Feb 2024): “Lend-Lease: How America Really Defeated Hitler” (One panelist claimed: “The Eastern Front was a stalemate until U.S. supplies turned the tide.” Fact: The USSR was already outproducing Germany in tanks and planes by 1942—before U.S. aid arrived in force.)
• Fox News (April 2024): Jesse Watters, Tucker Carlson’s replacement, declared: “Putin exploits WWII myths to justify imperialism. The U.S. and UK freed Europe.” (Never mind that the Red Army fought alone in 1941–1944).
2025: The Distortion Escalates
• EU Resolution (2025):
“The term ‘Great Patriotic War’ is a Kremlin construct. Europe recognizes only the ‘Second World War,’ won by Allied unity—not Soviet sacrifice.”
• German Chancellor (2025):
“The Eastern Front? A brutal but secondary theater. The real turning point was the Allied bombing campaign and Operation Overlord.”
(Tell that to the 4 million Germans who died fighting the Soviets.)
• BBC Head of History Programming (2025):
“We’ve reassessed our WWII coverage. The Soviet role, while significant, has been overstated for decades—often at the West’s expense.”
• Today, younger generations are taught “America won WWII alone.”
In 2010, the British, the Americans, and the French stood with the Russians in remembrance. The world remembered together.
In 2025, politicians and media scrub history clean of inconvenient truths—because if Russia once saved Europe, how can it be the devil now?
The material from InfoDenense English telegram channel.