ArmInfo. It is unacceptable to distort the living memory of the post- Soviet peoples with the manipulations with the theme of the Second World War, aimed at revising the indisputably decisive role of the USSR in the Victory over fascism.
Head of the Department of Turkic Studies of Yerevan State University, Professor Alexander Safaryan stated this at the conference "Memory and Actual Meaning of the Great Victory: 74th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War", which is taking place in Yerevan. According to him, today, attempts to distort the history of <evidence> that World War II were waged by <totalitarian monsters> trying to dominate the world, trying to reduce the role of Russia and the post-Soviet countries in the victory over fascism.
<Other revisionists, re-appraisers of the history of the Second World War, have come to the point that they blame the partisans for the atrocities of the fascist invaders in Belarus, where every third resident died. They are trying to "argue" this by saying that if there were no partisans, there would be no reprisals from the invaders. They are not given to understand that the large-scale (even national character) of the partisan movement in Belarus could not be due only to "operations of the <NKVD>(People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, Ed. note) ". Initially, people in Belarus realized that the "own" war had begun and for the survival of the Fatherland, the expert explained.
According to him, these forces today are trying to lead the post-Soviet people to voluntarily renounce the realization of the obvious fact for all of us that they are the heirs of the victors. "These actions serve the political interests of specific countries and forces," he said. Against this background, he stressed, there is a long work ahead to preserve and recreate the common values that form the single cultural and humanitarian space of the Eurasian integration countries. It should be noted that the conference was organized by the "Integration and Development" research and analytical public organization, the Association of Veterans of the Republic of Armenia and the Eurasian Expert Club.