Abstract
The majority of modern researchers of the history of WWII and Great Patriotic War (1939-1945), analyzing the events that took place seventy years ago speak about the extreme danger of Nazism, since its aggression, in the case of the Nazis’ victory, would cause a civilizational decline for considerable part of mankind, and would lead to humanitarian catastrophe. A significant number of innocent people got into the post-war repression and their fates were crippled by war and totalitarianism. The author of this paper does not in any way desire to justify activities of collaborators or enemy aiders and deserters, as certain historian critics sometimes mistakenly imagine. Our research aims to show – but not to justify – motives of deeds of a person in critical social settings and incentive factors, which may under certain conditions align one’s behavior with a specific course of action. We believe that any statements concerning the inadmissibility of the Nuremberg International Trial rulings review are incompetent and illegitimate.
Highlights
Nowadays, it is not a secret anymore, that the existing digital information space is an area of unprecedented struggle of states for the right to interpret history and the impact on national legal systems
Our research aims to show – but not to justify – motives of deeds of a person in critical social settings and incentive factors, which may under certain conditions align one’s behavior with a specific course of action
In order to justify their actions in the Crimea and in eastern Ukraine, the Russian authorities are deliberately manipulating historical facts concerning the manifestations of collaborationism in Ukraine by trying to resolve several issues at once
Summary
It is not a secret anymore, that the existing digital information space is an area of unprecedented struggle of states for the right to interpret history and the impact on national legal systems. The propaganda machine of the Russian authorities is trying to tarnish the entire the propaganda machine of the Russian authorities is trying to tarnish the entire national movement of Ukraine equating it to the banal treason of individual Soviet citizens of Ukrainian origin and trying to give it a proper legal assessment Success in this case would allow the Russian authorities (in their unfounded opinion) to raise the question of the randomness of Ukraine's statehood as an independent country. It is well known that all occurrences of social process share an extremely complex structure, and under the influence of a specific historical context the leading role may belong to socialpolitical, cultural-ideological, religious and other factors and contradictions that induce the emergence of a variety of options and pluralism We believe that this approach helps to understand the causes of emergence of social-psychological occurrences in historical process. Our research aims to show – but not to justify – motives of deeds of a person in critical social settings and incentive factors, which may under certain conditions align one’s behavior with a specific course of action
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