Renaming the historical event that affected the fate of millions of people – the Great Patriotic War – is not permissible for anyone, “including Ukrainians in the post-Soviet space,” says Nikita Buranov, a historian and expert of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO). He explained his position in a comment. REN TV October 21.
“Such an event of colossal significance as the Great Patriotic War cannot be called in any other way. And this is not witnessed by some Ukrainian officials or overseas books, scientific or pseudoscientific articles on the Internet, but simply the families of people who currently continue to live in Ukraine, Russia, and other post-Soviet republics, “Buranov said.
On October 20, the National Defense Council of Ukraine, with the participation of the President’s office, announced the development of an anti-occupation dictionary, the terms of which are recommended to be used by officials, journalists and public organizations.
The term “Great Patriotic War” is mentioned in the dictionary in the section “Terminology Associated with the Propaganda and Politics of Historical Memory”. The term itself appears in the column “Fake / cliché”.
Senator from Crimea Olga Kovitidi considered the proposal of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to call the Great Patriotic War Soviet-German “blasphemous statements betraying the memory and heroism of ancestors.”
On the same day, political scientist and political observer Alexander Asafov, in a commentary to Izvestia, explained the reaction of the Ukrainian authorities to some events by the fact that the country lives in its own special reality, in which Ukrainians “fly into space, join NATO, the European Union and achieve a super-economy on an agrarian basis. “.
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