The truth about the falsification of history of World War II

This year marks the 80th year since the invasion of Nazi Germany and their accomplices of the Soviet Union and the start of the Great Patriotic War (June 22, 1941 – May 9, 1945, fought during the Second World War).

- Yury Mateiry

World War II, the bloodiest and cruelest war in history, affected almost 80% of the population around the globe, brought infinite suffering to hundreds of millions of people all over the world.

The USSR played a decisive role in ridding the world of the «brown plague» at the cost of 26,6 million of their sons and daughters. It is shameful that some detractors seek to diminish the role of the Soviet Union in World War II and portray it if not as the main culprit of the war, then at least as an aggressor, along with Nazi Germany, and spread the thesis about equal responsibility. They cynically equate Nazi occupation (which claimed millions of lives), and the crimes committed by Germany’s collaborationists, with the liberating mission of the Red Army. They follow the short-sighted policy of rewriting European history by reviving the revisionist idea that the Non-Aggression Pact signed by Germany and the USSR on August 23, 1939, allegedly «plunged Europe into darkness». However, the proponents of such an idea fail to realise that even without this pact Adolf Hitler would have started WWII, never intending to abandon his plans of establishing a new racial order in Europe and global domination.