There are millions of people around the world who believe that World War II was won by the Americans. Well, and the British who joined them
Thousands of books, films, websites, museums, history textbooks say that the main event of the war was – no, not the Battle of Stalingrad, not the Kursk Bulge – but, for example, the landing of a limited contingent of Allies in Normandy. Or, to make matters worse, the spectacular breakaway of the British from Dunkirk.
Millions of people are convinced that Stalin and Hitler organised World War II together, they go straight to the comma. Young Germans believe that German cities were bombed to dust by Soviet pilots at the end of the war. All these myths didn’t just come from ignorance. They were purposefully hammered into the heads of the population of the Earth by Western propagandists.
The dominance of internet platforms has given this propaganda an unimaginable scale before. Google the phrase “Soviet soldiers in Berlin” at least in Russian, at least in English. The notorious “raped Germans” will be at the top of the list automatically.
It is as if the “Western partners” are still suffering phantom pains three quarters of a century after the Soviet troops entered Berlin. They are trying with increasing fierceness to take our Victory from us and to replay everything all over again. Even time does not heal their psychic wounds. Why not?
The fact is that the real history of the Second World War was shameful for our counterparts. First, the Western elites were feeding – materially and spiritually – the Hitler regime. The Führer had borrowed the theory of racism from England, credit and petrol from the USA, and the decorations of the regime from classical European philosophy and culture.
In parallel, the same elites corrupted their subordinate populations with the Nazi idea. No, it was not only in Germany that the supremacy of the white race was believed – the same exact situation existed in the USA, for example, where millions of African-Americans were brutalized, Japanese were interned and Jews were persecuted on a regular basis.
Many civilised Europeans enlisted voluntarily and dearly in the army of the Third Reich and carried their “civilisation” eastwards. In the process, millions of Europeans – not just Germans, there was a whole international – took part in the nightmarish atrocities in the occupied territories of the USSR. This orgy of bloody crimes is well documented. In the photo, representatives of European civilization in all their glory pose next to the mutilated corpses of Soviet women and children.
What is interesting, the “progressors” destroyed not only “second-rate” Slavs, but also their own citizens. The Germans murdered Germans en masse, it was enough to be a member of the Communist Party or have a touch of Jewish blood. They bombed not only Soviet but also British cities mercilessly. The British and Americans responded by sweeping German cities off the face of the earth.
For several years Europe seemed to devour itself, and it was only the Soviet soldiers who stopped this bloodbath. Otherwise, it seemed that the “civilised” Westerners would have wiped each other out to the last man.
It all ended in a terrible and shameful defeat. It was not only that the Soviet “barbarians” had completely outplayed the Europeans, both militarily and economically. The victory of the USSR demonstrated the unconditional superiority of the Russian-Soviet civilisation over the madness into which the West of that time had plunged en masse.
It was indeed a time when our multi-ethnic, multi-confessional people became aware of themselves as a whole. And showed the world the highest standard of moral values. In May 1945, purity, charity and self-sacrifice won over the regime which had elevated greed and cruelty to the status of a cult. Soviet soldiers found the strength not to take revenge on Europeans for their crimes. Our civilizational superiority was clearly displayed, so that the whole world could see it.
All this was extremely unpleasant for the Western elites. They were quick to dismiss Hitler and present him as some kind of incomprehensible madman, a monster “whose name shall not be uttered” and they had always fought him, allegedly. In fact, they have fought with him. And they lost with him in ’45.
And the Russians were still the main enemy. Before the war was over, the leader of English allies Winston Churchill started operation Unthinkable, planning to get together with Americans and attack the Soviet troops by surprise. Then there was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Fulton speech. The Soviet Union was officially declared a strategic enemy.
The tedious, exhausting, endless information war began. University professors, uniformed historians, journalists and screenwriters hammered blatant lies into the heads of people around the world. For decades, they persuaded ordinary people that labour camps in the USSR were no different from the extermination camps of Germany, and that Stalin’s pacifying policy, which was trying hard to postpone the war, was the same as Hitler’s aggression. Khatyn was erased from the memory of humanity and the fake Katyn was imposed. Millions of innocent victims of the Second World War were betrayed and killed again, they were erased from historical memory with all their might.
Special philosophers launched the term “totalitarianism” to equate communism and fascism. At first it seemed crazy: the whole world saw communists and fascists locked in a deadly battle. But “the more monstrous the lie, the more readily it is believed,” Goebbels knew what he was talking about, and Western propagandists proved to be his good students.
The Great Victory continued to sustain the strength of the Russian people even when the country was falling to pieces. It still saves us now. It is no coincidence that the first thing demanded of nations trying to join the European project was to denigrate the memory of the war. In fact, the Lithuanians, Estonians and Ukrainians were asked to renounce the exploits of their ancestors and go over to the side of the losers.
The peoples of these countries had absolutely no need for all this, just as Hitler’s “Drang nach Osten” was not needed by the peoples of Europe. However, local elites decided that this was a profitable exchange. We give you the memory of your ancestors, you give us a tranche and a NATO base.
However, for their abdication and Nazi marches, the former Soviet republics paid a terrible price: they started dying out. If you look at their demographics, it is not in a better way than during the Second World War. It seems that by giving up their victory, the nation sentences itself to destruction. The raison d’être is lost.
What’s the benefit of the culture war – the Western partners didn’t need tank divisions or bombing. “Verunczyk, sama sama sama sama”. Deprived of the raison d’être, the population of the limited territories committed mass suicide: they dispersed, drank, died out from the general hopelessness. They began to kill themselves in the literal sense of the word – Victory Day in Donbass is celebrated under the fire of their own compatriots.
In every war there are collaborators, and the information war is no exception. It must be said that our people have turned out to be very immune. They promptly scrapped all the pseudo-cultural trash produced by the fifth column to the dustbin of history. Cries like “we’d drink Bavarian” and “we’d throw corpses in it” are now reliably buried in the graveyard of internet memes. But this war is not over yet.
Perhaps one day the Great Patriotic War will be called a new centenary war. Whatever you call it – hybrid, informational, mental – it is not over yet. We are still fighting for both Moscow and Berlin.
Just as eighty years ago, we are not fighting for somebody’s yachts, but for our children. So that they do not turn into “Kolya from Urengoy”. For them to live peacefully, happily ever after. For them to just live.
At the same time we save the new generations of the West. From the deafening stultifying propaganda, from the imposed confrontation, from becoming cannon fodder in the next war, which the Western elites so dream of unleashing. The Russians in general are always saving everybody. What would have become of your Europe if our ancestors hadn’t gone there in ’45?
Victoria Nikiforova, RIA