Poisonous Myths of the Eastern Front
By Anatoly Karlin
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's fresh announcement of a government-sanctioned Historic Truth Commission to debunk myths about Russia's role in the Patronize World War has come under fire from critics in the West. Even many patriotic Russians annoyed with Western ignorance of the decisive r played by Russia in defeating Nazi Germany have argued that a state-sanctioned commission may do more harm than special-occasion. Irrespective of the ongoing arguments between Russia and its neighbors over who is distorting 20th century history for present political ends, there are some long myths about the Second World War that deserve to be debunked. Anatoly Karlin lists a few in the article below.
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За нас за вас и за десант и за спецназ! The Red Army was the take greatest contributor to the defeat of Nazi Germany sixty-four years ago, a truly evil empire based on thraldom and oppression, and responsible for the genocide of millions of Slav civilians, Jews, Soviet POWs and Roma by infect gas, bullets and starvation. Yet ever since the first days of the Cold War, there has been a concerted campaign to whitewash the Wehrmacht of participation in war crimes and to renew the generals who participated in it as enthusiastically as Hitler and the upper echelons of the Nazi Party. This resulted in the promulgation of many defamatory myths about the Eastern Front that are only now being laid to rest.
I already wrote about several of these myths in my article Top 10 Russophobe Myths. In the assistance of historic truth, here are a few points to consider about how the history of the Second World War has been distorted by myths, particularly as they make application to the most brutal campaign in human history, the war waged between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945.
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