Oriental Review

Germany: “Young Veterans”

By Natalia MEDEN (Germany)

A discussion on veterans’ policy change has been going on for some time in Germany upon the initiative of Minister of Defense Thomas de Meiziere (Christian Democratic Union). In April he submitted the “Bundesver veterans’ policy” report to the Bundestag Defense Committee. As the German tradition goes, it’s the two world wars participants who are [...]

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How We Almost Killed Each Other

By Dmitry MINAEV (Russia)

In 2009, I wrote about a fictional occupation of the USSR by the USA: The World War that never happened. Recently, I learned about some more wars that never happened. Or was it the same war? The article was published at OrientalReview.org: Britain Planned to Attack USSR on June 12, 1941 The first potential war [...]

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Can We Rule Out a New Pearl Harbour?

By Konstantin PENZEV (Russia)

Most people have heard of Pearl Harbor, especially after the Hollywood movie of the same name came out. Yes, The film in which the charming Kate Beckinsale plays nurse Evelyn Johnson. But I’m sure you’re familiar with that blockbuster. Everybody in Hollywood seems to drink, smoke, snort a few, get married and divorced, and then [...]

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Anglo-Saxon Roots of German Nazism

By Vladislav GULEVICH (Ukraine)

More than six decades after Berlin’s capitulation which capped World War II, the war is still raging, now in the form of revisionist attempts to cast a shadow over the memory of Soviet soldiers who fought in it. Among other things, the efforts aimed at equating fascism – a monster nurtured by the West in [...]

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Stalin Caught in Liberal Cobweb

By Nil NIKANDROV (Russia)

Progressive revision of the principal results of the WWII represents as a very dangerous sign. Never before the endeavors to depict Hitler and Stalin as equally responsible for unleashing the war have been so obstinate, purposeful and bluntly hostile towards Russian people and Russian state… No doubt that the propagandistic identification of Stalin as a [...]

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United Europe Against “Russian Barbarity”

By Olga CHETVERIKOVA (Russia)

Today Russia commemorates 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Patriotic war. In a stark contrast, Europe had commemorated pompously the 70-th anniversaries of the outbreak of World War II and of the signing of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact but currently seems oblivious to another key historical date ― June 22, the 70th [...]

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The Ghost of Goebbels: Historical Revisionism and World War II

By Wayne MADSEN (USA)

An expected outgrowth of the world’s steady descent into total and extreme capitalist control is the increasing tendency by some historians and their accomplices in the media to re-invent certain aspects of history. Although the history of the Middle East and colonialism have been favorite playgrounds for the historical revisionists, it is World War II [...]

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‘We Are Seeking Historical Truth in the Name of Common Future’

Last week a representative conference of contemporary history researchers was gathered in Sevastopol, Crimea. ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the Final Statement of the forum.     FINAL  STATEMENT Adopted by the International History Conference Commemorating 70th Anniversary of the Outbreak of 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War (Sevastopol, June 15-17, 2011) We, the assembled representatives of historical research [...]

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Fascist Historical Myth Reanimated

By Yuri RUBTSOV (Russia)

There is no shortage of arguments to challenge the groundless and deeply unfair claim that the USSR and the fascist Germany were equally responsible for the outbreak of World War II. Even a sketchy juxtaposition of Berlin’s and Moscow’s pre-war military plans highlights the fundamental difference in the two countries’ intentions. * * * Hitler [...]

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Episode 7. Britain and France Planned to Assault Soviet Union in 1940

By Alexander TRUBITSYN (Russia)

On March 23, 1940, a twin-engine civilian Lockheed-12A, registration code G-AGAR, took off from an airfield in the London suburb of Heston. British pilot Haig McLane was at the controls. The aircraft set course for Malta; then after an intermediate stop in Cairo, it flew on to the British military base in Baghdad. From there, [...]

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How Will America Blame Russia Now?

Igor Chebykin (Russia) The United States has revealed a widely known secret: the military, political and scientific leaders of Fascist Germany who avoided Soviet (or Allied) bullets and the Nuremberg hangman’s rope found a safe haven and good work in America after the war. The New York Times recently published the full text of a [...]

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Why Was Hitler’s Defeat a Defeat for the West?

Vladimir TIMAKOV(Russia) Conventional wisdom says that the traditional Western values are democracy, humanism, tolerance and human rights. Against that background, Hitler’s Third Reich looks like a strange mutation, an evolutionary deviation that could not have been predicted. Alexei Arbatov, a ideologue of pseudo-right Yabloko party, expresses surprise about that in a way that is rather [...]

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