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Rolul lui Stalin şi falsificarea istoriei Marelui Război pentru Apărarea Patriei
Stalin’s Role in the WWII Soviet Victory

Author(s): Valerii L. Musatov
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Falsification of history; D-Day; USSR; Germany; Miklos Horthy; Ion Antonescu;

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article analyzes the attempts to falsify the history of the Second World War, first of all the tendency to lay equal responsibility for its origin on Hitler’s Germany and the Soviet Union, as well as to consider Socialism as Nazism. The author disagrees with the opinions of those who misinterpret the liberation mission of the Red Army in the countries of the Eastern Europe and aim at presenting it as occupation. The steps taken to rehabilitate and praise war criminals, Nazi’s allies and traitors are criticized. In connection with the 70 th anniversary of defeat of the Romanian, Hungarian and Italian forces in the Stalingrad battle, the author points out historical responsibility of several politicians, such as I. Antonescu and M. Horthy, who for the sake of territorial acquisitions condemned their countries to participate on Hitler’s side in the anti-Soviet war that caused millions of casualties.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2013
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 246-259
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian