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This is a repost. First run on Monday, August 30, 2021
What a Coincidence.
As I repeat ad nauseam--the root of the mythology of the modern combined West is in WW II, where it was effectively saved from itself by primarily the Red Army, "Stalin's dirty Asiatic hordes," and this fact completely messes up this whole idea of the United States' exceptional "liberation" of Europe from the evils of Nazism, a strictly European invention. Like in 1814 with Russian Army triumphantly entering Paris, the Red Flag over the Reichstag in May of 1945 doesn't allow many in the West to sleep and face the reality of the XX century, in which the West decided to commit suicide. Removal of those Soviet/Russian "hordes" and those who led them in liberation of the death camps and Europe from the history, or re-framing their role in this process of liberation, is a task which Western historiography and the propaganda machine got engaged in immediately after WW II. This revisionism is vital for the existence of Pax Americana, because the modern world of ours was born in the crucible of WW II in which America was a second, however important, fiddle in ridding the world of Nazism.
There are several ways how Western revisionists--a euphemism for barely literate people with a HIDDEN PROPAGANDA agenda (a defining characteristic of the Russia Study field in the West)--do their job.
1. They completely exonerate Nazi Germany and the Axis from its crimes (e.g. visit the Unz Review and see one of the highest concentrations of crypto-nazis dominating the discussion boards there), [and this] often goes hand-in-hand with the Holocaust issue and totally ignoring the Axis being responsible for 27 million lives of Soviet citizens and millions upon millions of other lives. These are the most insane and illiterate people and they are incapable of tracing basic causalities.
2. They equate the responsibility of Nazi Germany with that of the USSR for unleashing WW II. This cohort, including "professional historians", has a lot in common with those mentioned in p. 1 above. They also are in the position of stressing that even if Nazis were guilty, Stalin's USSR was so horrible and so Mordor that, "the hell with them, they had it coming". These people also are not strong in history, nor do they have a military background that would allow them to grasp technical, operational, strategic and economic realities of WW II, and, as in p.1 in circle they place guilt on Stalin and the Soviet Union.
3. Russian "voices" such as Rezun, Solzhenitsyn, along with Western voices, such as "mass rape specialist" (a euphemism for falsifier) Antony Beavor, and other "Russian" dissidents who have an army of followers in the West, despite their sophomoric writing and open falsification of history, go for the jugular and deny Soviet/Russian people any agency and ability to distinguish right from wrong, which is wholesale attributed to "communist" ideology, while Stalin is singled out as a main culprit.
4. Pursuers of "Jewish-centric" version of Russian history, in which the Russian October 1917 Revolution was a Jewish conspiracy, and because of that Russians, as in p.2, "had it coming", and too bad Nazis didn't wipe the Russians out.
All this is a result of a combination of factors of both very low and constantly declining intellectual level of Western societies in general, and of the [self-assigned] ideological imperatives of a Cold War which disregards actual, still available but shrinking, honest scholarship in favor of pure propaganda. Plus, of course, a visceral hatred by Western "elites" of Russians as an obstacle to the West's delusional dreams of [global] domination. This is a very brief review of this phenomenon. I dedicated two-thirds of my first book to this issue.
But evidently, there are still some people out there who are bothered by a murky stream of grotesque pseudo-history in the United States and who cannot keep silent anymore. Ian Dowbiggin makes a review of yet another pseudo-historical excrement that passes in the United States for scholarship.
Rewriting History for the New Cold War. A Bard College professor has produced a sweeping, revisionist history of the Second World War that places the blame at Russia's doorstep.
Read the whole article, and pay attention to the Unz "team" immediately appearing there to defend the book being reviewed as Dowbiggin arrives at a conclusion which for my readers shouldn't be a secret for many years:
Stalin’s War fits comfortably into a world where it is now fashionable to hate Russia. Earlier this summer, Nick Carter, Britain’s top military commander, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that Putin’s Russia was “an acute threat” to European peace. The CBC’s coverage of Carter’s comment was the latest in a series of media stories in recent years about Putin’s foreign policy, his [putative] clampdown on dissent in Russia, and his alleged “meddling” in the domestic affairs of other countries. Last March, President Joe Biden even called Putin a “killer.” The twist on anti-Russianism today is that, unlike during the anti-communist years of the 1950s, it’s now the Soros-backed "progressive left" that demonizes Moscow.
Russians are keenly aware of that and here is a coincidence. Sergei Lavrov, speaking to veterans of the Great Patriotic War in Volgograd (Stalingrad) today stated:
Translation: VOLGOGRAD, August 30. / TASS /. Attempts to portray Joseph Stalin as the main villain of his era are part of an attack on our country's past, on the results of World War II. This was stated on Monday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting with veterans of the Great Patriotic War in Volgograd. He stressed that outside attacks on Russia's historical past are aimed not only at rewriting history, but also politically weakening the Russian Federation. "[You mentioned] Joseph Stalin, who <...> was supposed to lead all the processes. I absolutely agree that history should not be touched. By the way, attacks on Stalin as the main villain, lumping together everything he did in the pre-war period, during, after the war - this is also part of that very attack on our past, on the results of World War II," the minister said.
Lavrov's statement is not going to change anything in the West, least of all in the United States, which as a society has no concept of war as such, nor is capable of thinking outside the America-centric world, including its elites and most of the oficial "scholarship". This gap is unbridgeable and it will continue to grow. I guess the West needs a new Solzhenitsyn, which is not easy to find in times of Internet and social networks. Lavrov's statement is for Russians primarily, the new generation, that is, which increasingly wants and demands to see the history of their country as a continuous process in which Soviet period, with all of its failures and achievements, is just another step in Russia achieving her greatness. Plus, can we cut the crap? Few Westerners have any idea what the Soviet period was and how it played out in the past and plays out in present-day Russia. They just don't get it. They will not get it. But even registered foreign agent Levada Center and the cloaca of The Moscow Times cannot hide the fact:
Why this happens is beyond the grasp of people described above in this post (pp. 1-4), as per "Western history", I am on record--the whole clusterfuck which the modern West is today is a direct result of a complete lack of self-awareness and of operational knowledge of the outside world across the whole spectrum of activity from economics, warfare, politics, culture and history. With "historians" like Sean McMeekien, the West as we know it doesn't have much time left anyway.
Andrei Martyanov is a distinguished military & strategic analyst. Born in the Soviet Union, and a onetime officer of the Soviet Navy, Martyanov is the author of several books (including Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning, The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs, and the 2021 volume Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse), all focusing on the gradual decline of the American military as a result of its imperial over=reach and capitalist production values and matrix.Print this article 
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My father battled the Nazis (and returned as an abusive alcoholic with PTSD), and now (my country?) advocates and sponsors them – unbelievable, disturbing, and perplexing! Mr. Martyanov, without the Soviets enormous contribution and sacrifice – in “The Great Patriotic War” – I’m probably not here writing a response. Yes, the United States is squalid and dangerous. It is also depraved and usurped by perfidious elites (to characterize them as elites is a misnomer; they are only egotists, cowards, megalomaniacs, or villains who’ve expropriated their wealth from the poor, ignorant, and disadvantaged). Just as Russia is experiencing, and any country… Read more »
Concisely put and an excellent description of the Western sociopathic NPD’s in power
Thank you, Kevin!