#Opinion Article by @DipacademyMID Vice-Chancellor Oleg Kar | Russian Embassy in London

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Article by @DipacademyMID Vice-Chancellor Oleg Karpovich

Why Eastern Europe distorts the history of World War II

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Influenced by the Young Europeans, political circles and the society in general in a number of Central and Eastern European countries have long revised their assessments of the nature of World War II and their attitude to Nazi collaborators, with these acquiring a clearly expressed anti-Russian slant.

Given that certain states including Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria had openly cooperated with Hitler’s Germany and sought to vindicate themselves and lay the blame for the tragedy on the USSR, many institutions that previously investigated Nazi crimes changed their tune and rushed to investigate “Communist crimes.”

After the Eastern European states joined the EU in 2004, they dexterously instilled a feeling of guilt in countries of Old Europe and suggested new assessments of the history of World War II, posing as “victims of communism.”

The demonization and denigration of the Soviet Union is automatically extended to Russia, which is allegedly characterised by its “imperial ambitions” and a propensity to bring “military pressure to bear on its opponents.”

Revising approaches to the history of World War II, the outcome of which formed the basis of the key international institutions, including the UN Security Council, could inflict an irreparable damage on the modern world order and place the entire world on the brink of a global nuclear disaster.