The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation offers films to deal with the distortion of the history of WWII

The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation sent a letter to the leadership of the interstate TV and radio company " Mir " and a number of leading Russian TV channels with the initiative to make movies in the fight against falsification of the history of the Second world war to the detriment of the interests of the Russian Federation, according to the reply of the Ministry at the request of the deputies of the state Duma from the CPRF.

at the end of the 2014 people's deputies of the state Duma from the Communist party, Sergei Obukhov and Valery Rashkin because of the desecration of monuments to Soviet soldiers in parts of Europe has made a proposal to the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation to conduct a campaign to defend the truth about the heroism of the Soviet people during world war II. For reviews of deputies, certain Western countries are trying to eliminate the USSR from the winners. Russia as the successor of the Soviet Union ought to defend the historical truth, they wrote.

the Ministry replied (the text is available to RIA Novosti) that the anti-falsification of the history of the great Patriotic war period in damage to the state interests of Russia spelled out in the government approved the state program " Foreign policy ", which is assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"in the framework of the implementation obsemeniteli plan outreach and advocacy shares to counter attempts to falsify history to the detriment of the interests of Russia had sent letters to the leadership of the interstate TV and radio company" Mir "and a number of other leading Russian TV channels with an initiative to target the production of films on relevant topics (working on it)," - said the Ministry reply to the parliamentary inquiry.

in addition, the MFA launched a worldwide campaign to promote the theme of the great Victory and explanation of Russia's historic role in the liberation of Europe from fascism, reportedly in response to the request.

first Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said about the Soviet invasion both in Ukraine and in Germany." Later the Minister of foreign Affairs of Poland Grzegorz Schetyna said that the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Auschwitz was liberated by the Ukrainians, because this operation was carried out by forces of the First Ukrainian front. According to him, there were Ukrainian soldiers on that January day, and they opened the gates of the camp, and they liberated the camp ".


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