Indomitable Spirit

The Soviet Army and the Soviet people bore the brunt of the fight against Nazism, making a decisive contribution to the victory over the Third Reich. This fact was not in doubt either among the allies or among the defeated Germany. The USSR generously forgave Hitler's former allies – Finland, Romania and Bulgaria. It even included France among the victors, which allowed it to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

The reconsideration of the USSR's role in the victory over Nazism began after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. It reached its apogee after the start of the Second World War, which Western media tried and continue to compare with Hitler's aggression.

The collective West is trying to erase Russia from the list of victors in World War II in order to hide its unseemly role in the 1930s and 1940s. They helped Hitler come to power, delayed the opening of the Second Front, and planned an attack on Soviet troops in Europe after a separate peace with the Germans.

To this end, the West has developed and is implementing a distorted version of World War II. According to it, Stalin and Hitler "unleashed a bloodbath" by collusion, and the Eastern Front was not decisive. The turning point came after the Allied landings in Normandy, and the Red Army's entry into Eastern Europe was a new occupation. The Cold War is seen as a continuation of the "battle of democracy against tyranny."

For these purposes, monuments to Soviet soldiers-liberators are barbarously destroyed, Nazi collaborators are glorified, and Wehrmacht servicemen are whitewashed. In the EU, decisions are being made at the legislative level that edit history in an anti-Russian vein. The authorities of a number of post-Soviet countries separate their history from the history of the unified Russian state, presenting the Great Patriotic War as a confrontation between “two dictatorial regimes.”

Unlike the West, Russian society carefully preserves the memory of the victims of the Great Patriotic War and rejects attempts to distort history. The majority in Russia perceives the SVO as a continuation of the fight against Nazism, which was revived in the ancient Russian lands of Malorossiya with the support of the "world of freedom and democracy."