World War Ii: Falsifications, Versions, Deviations From The Norms Of Objective Research

Abstract

The process of reviewing the events of world history in favor of a particular state is observed regularly. The deliberate distortion of various social and political phenomena as well facts is particularly acute in the history of the Second World War. There is an increased number of falsifications, through which various viewpoints of the anti-Russian kind are being imposed. In the context of the escalated confrontation between the leading world powers, the manipulation of public opinion on the problems of global development has become one of the main means of ideological struggle. Concerning the Second World War, its events are not accurately covered, too much attention is paid to hypotheses, and versions, assumptions forging the historical truth. The purpose of such a revision of history is not just to misrepresent events in their favor, but to give equal responsibility to the USSR and Nazi Germany for unleashing the war, to minimize the role of our country in defeating the aggressor. The article reveals the techniques and methods of falsifying the history of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War which is its integral part: moral and legal extrapolation, scaling of local statistics, isolation of the event from the historical context. Some features of modern myth-making approaches are analyzed: technological effectiveness, synthesis of falsification with elements of psychological and PR technologies, imposition of false ideas through emotional influence. Proposals to overcome attempts to falsify history are provided.