Counteraction of Falsification of History in Former USSR: history or politics?

The article deals with the activities of the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia’s interests in 2009–2012. The author emphasizes the practical significance of the work of such organizations both on federal and regional level. There are pointed out some factors which testify to the necessity of their functioning, such as: public concern about attempts to falsify history; opening in the Baltic states, Georgia, Ukraine and a number of countries of Western Europe of centers and museums which reconsider the place of the Russian empire and the USSR in history, compare «Soviet Stalinism» to German fascism and demand that Russia should repair the damage of the occupation.

falsification of history