Morozov Yu.V.Institute of Far East Studies, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russian Federation morozovyury51@yandex.ru
Importance In 2015, the global community holds massive celebrations of the 70th anniversary after the anti-German coalition won the Nazi Germany and militarist Japan. However, advocates of the unipolar world have their own interests to diminish the role of Russia in international affairs as part of a new interpretation of the results of the World War II, thus transforming Russia's image from the Winner State into the aggressor. The results of World War II are falsified actively and continuously as part of the information campaign against Russia. Objectives The article pursues demonstrating that World War II has not yet become a page in the dim and distant past for many nations, and its outcome still influences the contemporary geopolitical processes. That is the reason for uncovering those who falsify the history and cast doubts on lessons and results of World War II. Methods I investigate the contemporary formats and methods used to distort the results of World War II. The article presents an in-depth analysis of those who may benefit from such falsification. I apply broad factual materials and compare original researches, perform the content analysis of monographs and articles by the leading historians. The research uses a horizontal comparative analysis. Results Relying upon historical facts of the World War II history, I display the real contribution the Red Army and the anti-German coalition allies made to batter the Nazi Germany and Japanese militarism. Conclusions and Relevance I conclude that the current information campaign distorts historical facts of World War II as its main ideas and purpose. The research unveils the main purpose of historical falsifiers, i.e. to distort the truth so to keep the unipolar world, gradually destroy the fundamentals of the multipolar world. I disclose concepts of the falsifiers, which regard the communism idea of the total social equality with the idea of racial supremacy followed by the National Socialism supporters on equal terms. As a conclusion, I call the Russian experts and foreign analysts for protecting the true history of World War II from falsifications. The truth should be convincingly told to today's generations of people living all over the world. Doing this complicated and painstaking work, we contribute to the future of the entire humankind.
Keywords: World War II, Red Army, anti-German coalition, front, attack, defense, losses
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