Deafening is when the brain is beaten. Not necessarily with a stick or a fist. It is also possible to call in information so that logic will fall down somewhere, and the system of thinking will be hammered in a complete stupor. And all this, yes, will hit the brain.
To be fair, it cannot always be called brains. Yes, a certain substance that is located in the cranium and has certain properties.
However, the modern substance sharply differs in functionality from that of a century or half a century ago. Then people knew how (yes, they were taught!) To think, reflect and understand. Now it's easier - here's the information package, swallow it and be happy.
And if you carefully read the comments on our pages, there are more and more such readers "who have come under attack". Ready to write any nonsense on their flag and proudly wave it.
Science fiction writer and at the same time visionary Andrey Lazarchuk predicted all this long ago (in the 80s of the last century) in his brilliant novel "Late by Summer", or rather, in "Soldiers of Babylon", the final part.
And they swallow. And happy!
They swallow everything, from legends and myths about the Great Patriotic War to the fact that Russia needs a tsar-father, an eternal autocrat, who is also the leader of the nation. Fine.
And why all these history textbooks, books, memoirs … Why? There are bloggers who will tell you everything. All that remains is to put a like and grunt something like that in the comments. But a blogger is “his own on the board” for consumers, and all these in books are just from the evil one. And they have no faith, because they were engaged back in those days, don't understand who, but you can't definitely believe!
Good. It happened so.
And outright fools went to carry the "word of truth" to the masses. One problem is that they are even farther from the frenzied ignorant Solzhenitsyn than from the Kolyma to the Crimea.
Chain reaction. Dope is taken, nurtured, replicated and sent to the masses. The masses are beginning (and what, we can all be bloggers here!) Retelling, and … yes, nuclear decay. The nuclei in the brain disintegrate.
The whole question is who benefits from it. But we will think about this topic. Yes, I also write, I also urge, but I urge mainly to think and reflect. And I categorically hate everyone who needs two hundred justifications and three hundred proofs, just not to use their thinking apparatus.
In general, this article was motivated to write me by one of the applicants for our authors.
A respectable citizen of three countries, a member of the journalists' unions of the two countries and a laureate of a bunch of awards. Nevertheless, this citizen managed to write a simply breathtaking article about Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky. There was a lot in her, only the truth was not. But a carload of speculation, allegedly confirmed by "documents" and "eyewitness accounts."
And you know, just walking around the Internet market of information, literally near the entrance, I found so many such fictions that you simply cannot pass by. A sight for sore eyes, what color, what a smell.
It's time to really open the "destroyers of historical legends-2".
Therefore, I bring to your attention a certain hit parade of historical nonsense, popular among people with weakened thinking abilities. I built them in order of decreasing attention to these eerie fairy tales, but this does not mean at all that the bottom will be uninteresting. On the contrary, there are such quirks that just not everyone can comprehend at least somehow.
Exclusively for those who like to keep everything clear.
# 1. "The sword of the Third Reich was forged in the USSR"
No matter how smart people wrote, no matter how they tried to prove something there, it was useless. Spraying poisonous saliva, dissolving keyboards and monitors, huge herds continue to blindly believe and repeat this postulate.
How else? It was the Nazis who were taught wisdom in the Soviet joint military schools. Goering studied in Lipetsk, and Guderian in Kazan. And it's easier to kill than to prove that Goering was stupid to teach something, he seemed to be able to do it himself well (22 shot down planes in the First World War), and the entire war world was read by Guderian's works.
But the funny thing is that the Nazis were completely out of business. At the time the schools were organized, there weren't any of them at all.
And the Soviet Union cooperated … Yes, with the German state, but only in those years it was customary in our country to call it the Weimar Republic. In order to be able to simply understand who and where.
The state was called so because it was in Weimar that the constitution of the republic and other documents were adopted by the constituent assembly. Geographically, this is still the same Germany. But this is not the imperial Germany of Bismarck, but a completely different state in structure - a republic with a democratic structure and a strong communist movement.
Then we would not be friends with the communists and would not. Fact.
In fact, officially the country continued to be called Deutsches Reich, that is, "German / German state". And since the word "Reich / Reich" has such an interpretation as "empire", it is clear what they began to mean after 1933.
Deutsches Reich - the same name was after 1933, when the Nazis came to power … that's right.
So the question "who did we train" or "who forged the weapon" turns out to be very difficult, but still it is worthwhile to understand that very often the state and the country are far from the same thing.
Hence, by the way, and the result. As soon as the Weimar Republic ceased to exist, the Deutsches Reich ended all relations with the USSR, and the schools were closed. Yes, when the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was concluded, something like that started to stir, but … In reality, there was no time left for the continuation of the development of relations.
However, for those who need to shout louder, it is enough that there is.
But in fact, it is clear that the Germans received some profit from schools on the territory of the USSR, but mountains of documents indicate that we received more. Especially in terms of chemical weapons.
But it turns out to be very difficult to explain. Although the difference between a country and a state within the USE could be overcome.
Are the Russian Empire and the Russian Federation the same thing? Geographically - almost. And in the political arena? Yeah, with England and the United States, it seems, they fought together in the First World War, and then what? And then the Allies just started the intervention like that.
It turns out that there is a difference. But this needs to be understood and comprehended.
Simply because we must understand that those Germans who would have been beaten from 1941 to 1945, and those Germans with whom we rebuilt the destroyed, restored the paintings we saved, fed them - these are the same Germans. From the same country.
But from different states.
So whether we forged a sword and a shield to the Third Reich or not is, seriously, not so important. The important thing is that we have forged both a shield and a sword. This, in my opinion, is more important than the fact that the republicans of Weimar helped us forge it, they are the future Nazis of the Third Reich, they are the future communists of the GDR.
No. 2. Stalin himself planned an attack on Germany in order to strengthen his power
This is an illustration on the theme "Rezun died, but his work lives on." Indeed, Rezunov's tales have disappeared from the shops, and only those who are running out of Solzhenitsyn's quotes refer to him. Nevertheless, once every six months someone will come out with this muck.
So, let's make a difference between the Anschluss (in our case - the Baltic States), when someone is breaking into the open arms of a neighbor (yes, like Austria) and a small victorious war. In our case, with scraps of Poland. Although there, by and large, there was no war. So, kicked and went to pick up theirs. His, I emphasize boldly, what Lenin handed out in the name of the world revolution.
Let me remind some with a bad memory, five years have passed, and for all negative events you have one mantra: "But Crimea is ours!" So, I agree, Putin raised his authority to the skies. Then attention, the question: the territories of the Baltic States, Western Ukraine, Western Belarus, Bessarabia and Bukovina, forgive me, do not compare well with Crimea.
But the Finnish one is yes, it is an indicator. When the Finns rested, and did it very competently, they had to break them over the knee, and it cost not only dear, but very dear. And, by the way, the Finnish one showed that in the Red Army, not everything is as rosy and ceremonious as we would like. Rather, everything is sad.
An intelligent person (sorry, there is one opinion here, mine, and it is correct) Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, who cut so many territories to the USSR without actually losing anything (I will not take the Finnish one), and suddenly, to strengthen his authority, he will rush to the enemy, obviously exceeding his abilities Finland and Poland?
Those who have just broken off the ambitions of the Poles with such a roar that the whole of Europe shuddered? Stalin, who knew perfectly well at the end of the Finnish war what the Red Army was like?
Let's not hold each other as retarded in all respects …
And let's go further.
Stalin's power. These are terrible words. And what was the power of Stalin? Who can say for sure without a "wiki" what position he held and what was its profit?
Just the post of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). Yes, Stalin held this post permanently from 1922 until his death. Was she a presenter? Influential, yes. Leading … This begs a comparison with a German colleague, Martin Bormann. Rather, probably, a kind of "gray cardinal" with the keys to the party treasury and good opportunities in terms of human resources in a country where there is only one party.
That is, quite.
To this can be added the post of chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. But Stalin got to this position as a result of a castling with Molotov in May 1941. And for her, the war was definitely not needed.
What can we say about the chair of the State Defense Committee! Who dreamed of such a dusty and, most importantly, profitable position? Which in 12 years will drive you into a coffin and bury you in your only uniform and worn-out boots?
Stalin received all his posts and posts (or organized for himself, it doesn't matter) BEFORE war. And last of all he needed a war in order to consolidate his power. On the contrary, the longer the Soviet Union was not involved in the war, the more chances were that in the future the USSR would become a real superpower.
№ 3. The Great Patriotic War is an episode of the Second World War, which means there is no point in highlighting and celebrating
Well, this is a favorite topic of an isolated group of people who don't sell conscience in supermarkets. It rises regularly, in the month of April of each year and fades out after May 9, but individuals can express their opinion without being tied to Victory Day.
Dual. Yes, the Great Patriotic War is an episode of the Second World War. But the episode is huge and bloody. If you look at the Second World War, there was the Pacific theater of operations, the African, Western Front and Eastern Front. Sorry, an episode of a quarter of the entire world battle is a lot. And if you consider that the Western Front was mostly listed on paper, and the African showdown ended in 1943 on a serious account … So count it.
But there is one more small aspect that neither the West nor our Western hangers-on really like to remember. And there is something to remember. And poke it in the face.
Let's be honest. And to be honest, the Second World War was no different in essence from the First World War. That is, it was a completely imperialist war. A war for colonies, markets, control over commodity flows and resources. For resources - especially. For them and now the massacre is going on.
And here I will focus your attention on such things that gentlemen ideological opponents never talk about. They just don't have enough brains, no matter how offensive it may sound.
Resources in general and Lebensraum in particular are very useful things for states. But, dear ones, who there wants to sacrifice themselves in order for the state or private capital to gain control over a fat oil (for example) piece?
Yeah, you get the analogy, right? That is, either mercenaries, or those who are fighting for a tasty tomorrow, that is, for dividends, which is essentially the same mercenary. Pay - we fight.
So in our case. Neither the French, nor the British, nor the American would call a holy war. Yes, and the Germans had a very peculiar way of staging. An example is Alsace and Lorraine. This is short, in fact - how many years they drove back and forth? How many wars? So-so entertainment, if that.
No sanctity, nothing personal, just business …
It is worth paying attention to how and where who fought. Britain, Italy, Germany, USA, France (on dancers) fought in Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt and about a dozen other African (and not only) countries.
Nicely so they fought. Almost gentlemanly. In relation to each other. And the fact that some local population was dying under bombs …
You might think someone thought of the Serbs when Yugoslavia was torn to pieces in the 90s.
So what? And where is the difference?
And the difference began when Hitler, who finally went crazy, decided to arrange Africa in Europe. And he attacked the USSR.
And here there is one thing about which absolutely all "seekers of truth" are silent.
The Soviet Union had no colonies. None. And he, the Soviet Union, was not involved in the export of capital. What, excuse me, was the export of capital, did they import everything they could reach, because it was necessary to put industry on its feet?
But no, the USSR was an excellent resource base. Therefore, the European team was drawn under the German flag. And she did not carry the ideals of democracy and a bright future for Russians (and the rest, by the way), but quite the opposite.
And so they just decided to destroy all of them, because … Because they needed a Lebensraum. I respect the Germans, or rather, I pity them today, I even forgave them, but I will never forget this. All these plans. By destroying me in perspective.
It could have happened. If my grandfathers were not as stubborn as millions of other grandfathers and great-grandfathers, it could. But it didn’t grow together.
Therefore, I simply consider it my sacred duty to continue the topic, to talk about how we would “drink Bavarian”, all over the world “drove Mercedes” and so on. Just for the respect that is, which is not dated May 9th.
So - to be continued. However, our audience is already used to this.
