Взято тутОкотицо ПравдойЪ«Миф о Сталинграде помогает Путину держаться у власти»
К такому выводу пришли американские историки
http://svpressa.ru/war21/article/181107/?rpop=1
Был уверен, что это либо фейк, либо бред какой-то, пока очень быстро не нашел оригинал. Увы, всё оказалось правдой.
Вот харя автора: http://iss.yale.edu/people/ian-johnson
Сама статья:
"The Motherland Calls: The Battle of Stalingrad, 75 Years Later"
Из текста выясняется, что автор очень ценит знатного историка Энтони Бивора, что уже само по себе диагноз:
Telling the story of the battle of Stalingrad fully would help to undercut the dangerous version of the war’s myths. It may come as a surprise, for instance, that 75 years later, that parts of the story of Stalingrad remain cloaked in myth. Anthony Beevor’s magisterial 1999 work is the best history of the battle(Sic!- А.А.) , but depends far too much on German sources.
Дальше поэма, самая мякотка (жаль, что в российской публикации этому не посвятили особого внимания) - словно вернулся во времена перестройки имени Горби:
The myth of Stalin’s success – which seems to underpin Putin’s newly revanchist foreign policy – needs to be ended. There is no one else who can do that besides Russian and Western historians. Stalin was not the savior of the Russian people. Rather, he was nearly the author of their demise, responsible for untold millions of deaths during the war itself. Stalin enabled Hitler by secretly assisting in the rearmament of the German state between 1926 and 1941. He partnered with Hitler in partitioning Eastern Europe in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. He provided Hitler with two million tons of oil and staggering quantities of natural resources which fed the German war machine as it overran Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece. He even provided a naval base on Soviet soil for the German Kriegsmarine to raid Allied shipping.
At home, Stalin made the Soviet Union’s predicament worse by murdering or arresting his best officers immediately prior to the war. His personal arrogance and poor decision-making led to the staggering disaster of the first year of the campaign, with its five million Soviet military casualties. During the war, his personal refusal to allow the evacuation of civilians in Stalingrad and Leningrad probably cost 1.5 million Russian civilians their lives. Up to 5.5 million Soviet citizens were killed by the state as part of political repression campaigns during the war(????!!!!). Stalin enabled the war and then maximized the cost his people would pay for victory. That knowledge should undermine any notions that some sort of neo-Stalinist foreign policy is a way forward for Russia today.
Ну все очень привычно, порадовали 5,5 млн. репрессированных во время войны (почему не 55?).
Ну и в конце призыв переписать историю в идеологически верном ключе:
Revisiting the war will be difficult. Nearly every Russian family was affected by the conflict. Acknowledging the problematic nature of the Soviet regime and its inhuman brutality towards its own people is traumatic. That is why myth-making under Putin has had such potency. Realistically, it may not be possible to evaluate Russia’s war effort with fresh eyes until the last veterans of the war have passed on.(!!!) But truly honoring the 27 million Soviet citizens who died and building a better future for their descendants will require some soul searching, and some new histories.
The heights of Mamaev Kurgan are crowned with what was once the world’s tallest free-standing statue: a woman, symbolizing Mother Russia, pointing with a sword towards Berlin. It is entitled “The Motherland Calls,” the evocative call-to-arms in defense of Russian homes. Perhaps now, her cry should be rewritten: now, the motherland calls for truth(?????-А.А.), and honest remembrance.
Повеселила карта, выложенная в статье, наглядно иллюстрирующая последствия "мифа" о Сталинграде:
(кликабельно)
@настроение:
@темы:
Вот кто мешает нам жить и работать,
ГДЕ МОЙ ЛЮБИМЫЙ МОЛОТ?!,
Историческiй альманахъ