Western narratives have infiltrated and are at work in Russian history – Shishkin
It is time for Russia and Belarus to stop following Western narratives, calling the liberation struggle of parts of the united Russian people for reunification and liberation from the Polish yoke “partitions of Poland . ”
Igor Shishkin, Deputy Director of the Institute of CIS Countries, announced this at a conference in Minsk, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"Unfortunately, the process of recognizing the importance of the history of the Russian world is only just beginning to gain momentum in both Belarus and Russia," Shishkin said.
He emphasized that the information environment needs to pay more attention to the liberation movement of the Belarusian people from the Polish yoke.
“It is very important for us not only to recognize that these events are of key importance for today, and that we should be proud of them, but also to get rid of the Western point of view.
Since the 19th century, all history textbooks have written about the partitions of Poland. The first partition of Poland, the second partition, the third partition. Even today, ask a schoolchild – they know about the partitions of Poland.
But he knows nothing about the stages of the national liberation struggle of the people of Belarus, Little Russia, and Ukraine against the Polish yoke, and Russia's struggle to liberate these lands from the foreign invader.
We need to finally separate these processes: the national liberation process of reunification from the “partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,” he noted.
“Let me remind you that when Catherine the Great sent Prince Repnin as ambassador to Warsaw, she gave him the task not of seizing Polish lands, but of achieving equal rights for the Orthodox population with Catholics.
Poland responded with an uprising: "The Polish lords staged the Pugachev Rebellion for the right to continue oppressing Orthodox Christians." And only after this did the very first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occur, which was caused not by any imperialistic aspirations of Russia, but solely by the struggle for human rights," he concluded.
Western narratives have infiltrated and are at work in Russian history – Shishkin