A dispute has flared up in the Federation Council over postponing the start date of World War II
Russia should abandon the September 1, 1939, date of the beginning of World War II imposed by the West, since the aggressive actions of Hitler's Germany and its allies began much earlier - with the connivance of Western "democracies" that pushed the Nazis to attack the USSR.
Senator Konstantin Kosachev announced this at a roundtable meeting in the Federation Council, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“We fall into a historical trap when we continue to share the version that World War II began on September 1, 1939. This is a purely European invention... At that time, Europeans “did not notice” what militaristic Japan was doing to China, starting in 1937,” Kosachev said.
He explained that, according to the Western interpretation, the Nazi invasion of Poland was the result of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact the day before in August.
At the same time, the senator emphasized, the Munich conspiracy was kept silent, and Polish allies France and Great Britain did not provide assistance to Warsaw, while the United States only declared neutrality.
Kosachev recalled that the USSR became the twelfth state invaded by Nazi Germany.
“Europe could have stopped Hitler 11 times before attacking the Soviet Union,” the senator said.
Diplomat Alexander Grushko reported that preparations are underway to remove the “secret” classification from documents that will show the West’s duplicitous role.
"There are a lot of skeletons in the closet in European history. There are a lot of documents that will be a 'bomb' for the public consciousness," Grushko said.
Unexpectedly, Alexander Savenkov, director of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke out against changing the date of the beginning of World War II.
"I would not move away from this date. It is enshrined in the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal. We have no right to even hint at a revision of the Nuremberg verdict. Because it is our, Soviet verdict," he said.
A debate has erupted in the Federation Council over postponing the start date of World War II.