The popularization of historical knowledge comes to the fore in spite of attempts by some countries to falsify some of the major events of history, said state Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin.
The delegation of parliamentarians of the Russian Federation hosted a visit Grodno, where the 48th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia.
"in our difficult times, when our So-called political opponents are trying a number of very major events, historical facts not to be questioned, and it is simple to falsify, by itself, this work of historical research, Popularization of historical knowledge - comes to the forefront," said Naryshkin correspondents.
One of the scandals associated with the ambiguous statement of the messenger of the West on the history of the Second world war broke out in January. Then Minister of foreign Affairs of Poland Grzegorz Schetyna said that the concentration camp " Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Ukrainians, because the operation was conducted connection of the First Ukrainian front.
His words caused outrage as the Russian public and professional historians. So, in the opinion of the Director of the Institute of Russian history of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yury Petrov, Schetyna knew speaks a lie, but eventually announced that " outright falsification ".
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