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 […]
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Stalin Caught in Liberal Cobweb
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 […]
United Europe Against “Russian Barbarity”
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 […]
The Ghost of Goebbels: Historical Revisionism and World War II
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, […]
‘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 […]
Fascist Historical Myth Reanimated
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’ […]
Geopolitics Behind the Great Victory
While talking of the great triumph over Nazis in World War II, discussing the global impact of the Soviet people’s victory, and saying that it irreversibly transformed the world, we often fail to appreciate the extent of heroism of Soviet soldiers and the proportions of the changes it helped to […]
Episode 6. Leon Trotsky, Father of German Nazism (V)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 But back to Russia. In giving the finger to his Western Partners and breaking Russia’s diplomatic isolation at the Genoa Conference by signing the Treaty of Rapallo, Lenin had expended the last of his strength. In May 1922, he had a stroke. […]
Episode 6. Leon Trotsky, Father of German Nazism (IV)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 About a year before Hitler organized the Beer Hall Putsch, some curious personalities appeared in his entourage, and historians have still been unable to determine the origin of the sums of money that they brought with them. The cash flowed in from many sides. […]
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 […]
Episode 6. Lev Trotsky, Father of German Nazism (I)
«Oddly enough, England, monarchist to the core and conservative at home, always acted in its foreign affairs as the patron saint of demagogic aspirations, always pandering to popular movements who sought to weaken the basis of monarchy altogether.» Memorandum by Peter Durnovo to Tsar Nicholas II, February 1914. The question […]
Episode 5. Who paid for World War II?
Seventy years ago the greatest massacre in history began – with the financing from the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve System of the United States. A recent resolution by the parliamentary assembly of the OSCE declared that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany held equal roles in unleashing […]





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