As a famous photo from Petrozavodsk liberated from the Finns, it turned out in the Ukrainian history textbook.
Many residents of Petrozavodsk and simply history buffs know the photograph of hungry and exhausted children behind barbed wire, made by Galina Sanko, a photo correspondent for the Frontovaya Illustration newspaper, in the summer of 1944 in the city of Petrozavodsk.
On June 28, 1944, the capital of the Karelian-Finnish SSR was liberated by Soviet troops. On the same day, Galina Sanko arrived in Petrozavodsk, who immediately went to one of the camps in the city created by the Finnish invaders, allies of Nazi Germany, for the Russian-speaking population. At the entrance, she noticed children standing by the wire, who gazed intently and silently at her. Then this famous photo was taken. Later, a snapshot of our correspondent appeared at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg as evidence of the atrocities of fascist criminals.
This photograph is also notable for the fact that among the juvenile prisoners on it there is Klavdia Aleksandrovna Nyuppieva, who was kept there with her mother and sisters (in the picture she is in the lower right corner), the long-term chairman of the Karelian Union of former juvenile prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, Honorary citizen of the city of Petrozavodsk .
Unfortunately, in recent decades this photo has healed its own life. Meticulous propagandists, having cut off the inscription in Finnish from above with the threat of execution, cynically pass it off as a photo … of the Gulag prisoners. In this form, the image was used in many anti-communist posts on social networks, and even got into the public of a seemingly solid “Echo of Moscow”.
No, this, of course, is far from the only fact of manipulating historical photographs. Here, for example, how “Crimean Tatar nationalists who collaborated with the Nazis are extradited as“ innocent victims of repression ”.
But still, our photo is very famous, how can you lie like that?
However, the modern Ukrainian “historians” went the farthest by inserting a photograph of Galina Sanko in her history textbook for grade 10, authored by a certain OV Gisem
On page 165 we see that it turns out: “Children in the Gulag, the end of the 30s.” From the point of view of the department of Dr. Goebbels, a well-founded reception …
As for present-day Ukraine, not as a historically fraternal country with fraternal people, but as a modern state, it seems to me that everything has been clear to everyone for a long time. She is a wonderful and vivid example of the fact that the fighters against “totalitarianism and communism”, fans of liberal ideas, freedom and “dignity” often turn out to be ordinary political crooks, corrupt officials and simply fascists.
But even in Russia since the beginning of the 90s this dirty foam has not disappeared from our history. It is worth repeating once again: first we rewrite our history, then rewrite our property. We all remember how in the early 90s the blackening of Soviet history, the propaganda of all sorts of Solzhenitsins preceded and prepared the predatory privatization, the destruction of thousands of factories and state farms, the impoverishment of millions of people. Want to talk about the Gulag and Sandarmokh? Let us, only on the basis of real facts, and not invented in the beginning of the 90s fairy tales, phony photos and fakes from the Internet.
You can’t put up with lies and lies concerning our history and our Victory in 1945. Children from the liberated Petrozavodsk, captured in the old photo, paid a very high price for it.