Stalin CHANGED SCHEDULE OF WAR "

- Yet why Poland looks like a victim of the war and, in particular, of collusion between Hitler and Stalin?

- Poland draws a totally innocent victim. Like, if not the Molotov - Ribbentrop, Hitler would not have gone to Poland. But there are documents showing that the March 1, 1939 (almost six months before the conclusion of the pact. - Ed.) Was determined date of the attack on Poland. And you know what the Poles, all these six months doing? Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Beck, Russophobe, negotiated with Hitler to become his ally, offering their services in the conquest of Ukraine, Poland to spread from sea to sea. What a dope to be in my head, to think that Hitler would make war only for the sake of Danzig became Gdansk? By the way, Gdansk, he became due to our army and Victory. As Silesia became part of Poland by the Soviet Union and against the wishes of the United States. Many people think that Silesia has always been Polish, but it is 400 years old was considered a part of Prussia. As a result of the Second World War, we gave the Poles a third of their current territory. So could behave a little more restrained and not vilify us. W
and communism, which we awarded them, and does nothing to reproach - how many Poles took part in our revolution, and even in the Civil War on the side of the Bolsheviks - the whole division! Not to mention the fact that the reward that was in themselves and that is considered the best in the world.

We did not fight for communism, and for their country

-now they say that it was a war between two totalitarian regimes - Nazism and Stalinism. In this battle Stalin managed to win.

- Even during the Cold War in the West, no one identified Stalin and Hitler, especially communism and fascism. In Western politics, they were regarded as opposites. In the mid-70 changed the West's strategy in regard to our country, and has deliberately misrepresented the Second World War. They began to say that the main crime - Hitler did not claim the territory and peoples, and even racial doctrine, and the lack of American democracy, and since we also had no Western-style democracy, we are the same disgusting. But what is common between communism and Nazism? Communism aimed to bestow benefits the whole world, to achieve universal equality. And Hitler's racial doctrine talked about natural neravnorodnosti people and nations. And the purpose of it - the whole world to put at the feet of one of the nation and turn it into a race of lords. Absolutely opposite ideas. And suddenly the focus changed and it turns out that the war was waged for American democracy, which have fought two equally odious totalitarian monster. Think what perfidy.

My mother, a partisan, 21-year-old teacher, being in the occupied territory in the first months of war, fought for the Fatherland, who fought for my grandfather, her father, a full knight of St. George, an ensign of the Russian army during WWI. Therefore incorrect to say that we fought for communism. When an external enemy tramples on your land, wants to turn you into a slave, to argue about how bad or good state, is inappropriate. The trouble happened not with the state as a political institution, and with the Fatherland.

If it were not for Covenant

- But back to the beginning of the Second World War ...

- Britain, France terribly afraid of Hitler's expansion to the west. They realize the scale of Hitler's appetite and wanted to refocus them on the east. And this they do at first. Munich Agreement of 1938, signed by Chamberlain and Daladier, Hitler and Mussolini, the partition of Czechoslovakia - it is a shame for the West. Further, he has rapidly developed a success, and the Western powers wanted to appease him only through the east. And just before the signing of the Molotov - Ribbentrop Britons were secret negotiations with Hitler and Goering had to fly to London to sign a separate treaty with Germany. The diplomatic struggle of the last pre-war years was built around the question: to whom the first attack Hitler? And the fact that war is inevitable and will go on both fronts, it was obvious to everyone. Everything breathed war. And we, trying unsuccessfully to reach a comprehensive agreement with the West against Hitler, realizing that we were cheated in the last minute beat the West in this game! Even former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger admits that "the measure of Stalin's achievements can be considered rescheduling of the war and the priorities of Hitler. Kissinger even believed that "the skill with which it was done, might well have been borrowed from the textbooks on the diplomatic skills of the XVIII century.

- If it had not signed the Molotov - Ribbentrop pact, as if events developed further?

- Hitler would attack us first, and we were absolutely not ready for war. By this time it was already known - and I quote the report of the Roosevelt - that, if there is a war between Hitler and the USSR, America would not intervene until the "do not start changing the structural order. That is, until someone starts to win so that it will not stop. Britain, of course, would not have allowed Hitler to become a "master of Eurasia. But she would have waited until the Germans were pushed back to us in the tundra, would beat him to the Black Sea straits, and pushing us from the Black Sea. U.S. would have landed in the Far East, so as not to let go to Japan, all of this, of course, would be pinned as a result of Hitler. But we would never return to our historical frontiers. Entire European part, the whole Ukraine and Belarus, we would have divorced. What would happen is what happened in the 91-th year, only with the full destruction of the state. And it would be the end of our history.

With regard to the territories in which, following the Molotov - Ribbentrop entered our troops, then let's see what the Western Ukraine, which Warsaw called "Eastern Poland".

This territory Russia Empire occupied Poland Jozef Pilsudski during the Civil War. In a piece of Bukovina, which until the First World War was not Russia. Why partition of Ukraine and Belarus Pilsudski is not considered a crime? And the return of these territories in the historic borders of Russia's state, though the communist regime, branded as a crime? Incidentally, during the pact, and after the occupation of our troops in Western Ukraine and Belarus, Warsaw torn away during the Civil War, no one in the West did not consider it to be something quite unusual.

- Britain first announced Hitler war. Why we had from the outset not united in the fight against fascism?

- Britain - is a major strategic force, which at that time was the architect of policies, projects, diplomatic intrigues. Hitler conquered Denmark, Belgium - strategic approaches to Britain - it has to fight.

What was a Europe after World War I? Hastily tailored templates for the British territory with a huge number of states that did not previously exist on the world map. Postwar Versailles Conference in 1919 prepared the Anglo-Saxons - British Prime Minister Lloyd George and the American President Woodrow Wilson, more precisely, his enigmatic assistant, Colonel House.

Britain wanted to turn to Hitler on the east, to protect themselves in the west. Not to mention its age-old desire to deprive us of the Baltic coast. If we trace the British attitude to the acquisition of Peter the Great, now they should rejoice: finally entered the Baltic states into the orbit of the West. And this is the main negative and very serious for us to change in Europe. They would even take the Kaliningrad region - it is their dream. The fact that NATO entered Poland and Romania, to be honest, no irrelevant. But the Baltic states - a strategic region. When Peter first came to the Baltic, Russia became a great power. After that, without us already, no gun in Europe did not shoot. And the dream of Britain with the time of Peter was one - take us with these positions. Therefore the West has so rejoiced when the Soviet Union collapsed. Finally hated Russia collapsed empire. For the price paid by Gorbachev for totalitarianism - 300-year history of Russia.

Secret trophy archives

- The peace treaty between Russia and Japan have not yet been signed. As he needed Russia today?

- Lack of a peace treaty with Japan - is a pretext for raising of territorial claims against our country. Stories are cases where a return to normal relations along without a peace treaty. So, never was and never will be a peace treaty with Germany! Act's full and unconditional surrender of Germany, deprived of sovereignty. State of war with her was terminated by unilateral acts of the belligerent powers - the U.S. Congress decision, the decision of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and so on. A peace treaty with Germany did not succeed because of the cold war. But does the absence of a peace treaty with Germany, prevents our excellent relations and cooperation?

As for Japan, she is in the San Francisco Treaty in 1951 signed the following article: "Japan renounces all right, title and claim to the Kuril Islands ..."

Next: the principle of full and unconditional surrender of the former State ceased to exist. A new Japan - a new subject of international relations.


- Soon after the Second World War, the victorious countries have decided to close access to the captured archives of Nazi Germany for 60 years. Recently, this ban was extended for another few decades. Why fear the country's winning?

- Trophy archives may shed light on the relationship between Nazi Germany and other countries. It is possible that there are materials that would deprive many of the accepted grounds for cliché and labels. Well, for example, there may be material on the secret negotiations between Hitler, the United States and Britain. Yes, anything! And suddenly they show that for all the finger in the pie. Not by accident is unanimity among rivals - the United States and our country - that should be postponed.

But the fight against falsification of history should be no taboos, and documents. One of the goals of the Commission on Anti-counterfeiting - to stimulate research, declassification and publication of documents that no longer will replicate "fried" facts and myths. Here our Foundation is preparing a historical perspective to the September collection of articles and documents on World War II. Western politicians are in full view! Will be published documents from the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and something from the archives of the Foreign Intelligence.

Returns whether Russia Empire of its former borders?

- From the standpoint of historical science, one can imagine that Russia would return Russia to the borders of the empire?

- Very difficult to read the cards ... Muscovy is located in the zone of risky agriculture. This is not fertile soil, and loam, where off-road four months a year where the snow lies for six months, where in the impenetrable forests and swamps howling wolves ... In these forests and swamps even the Tartars could not stop. They conquered the steppe part of the Russian lands especially one that is now Ukraine, and the Muscovy just raided.

- Due to the inconvenient geopolitical location, we had to expand. Aj on 22 thousand square kilometers have increased - from the Bug River to the Pacific Ocean ..

- Yes, but it is the only nation that has expanded its borders to the north and east, mostly on empty land, although there were gains. We only built the industry and big cities in those latitudes, where no one except us has not done. Russian people humbly plowed land, where the freezing depth of 2 meters. We had faith in themselves and their future. The people were full of historical energy. Be fruitful and multiply, without thinking about whether there is hot water in the toilet. For historical energy in us again revived, we must become not just population, as a nation. With common historical experiences, with the general concepts of good and evil. Modern attitude to life as a source of pleasure does not give such a pulse.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, many republics, who left the territories, which they never would have happened if these ethnic groups themselves were strangers in history, however imagined that would become richer. Russia is still richer than all, and the dynamics of historical processes are large. At the same Ukraine incomparably lower than the potential, although it is a rich country with the military-industrial complex. But the global crisis could crush her completely. And Russia will still remain potential.

- According to estimates by Western sociologists, by the middle of this century, Russia's nation is reduced by a quarter ...

- It's terrible figures. The main cause of falling fertility rates - the psychological and social. Many children no longer worth even in normal families. I am so sorry that I have only one son ... We are vitally necessary to increase the birth rate, otherwise we will not be able to hold our country, even in its current borders.

One more question

Poles dreamed of reaching Moscow

- Natalia, why we remember so little about the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers in the Polish prisoner of war in the 20's?

- This is totally unfair when they gave us all the time poked Katyn, about which, incidentally, apologized Yeltsin. Not to mention the fact that the issue of Katyn has not been fully investigated. Certainly, there have been crimes of the NKVD, but also the Nazi crimes also left its mark. But the fact that in the 20 th year in the territory occupied by Pilsudski, caught up in about 100 thousand Red Army soldiers, for some reason Poland is not counted. And these prisoners were simply starve - they specifically were not fed, watched them die ...

- In fact it was the prototype of a Nazi concentration camp?

- Yes, yes. The Poles do not want this to remember, and that we keep demanding an apology. Yes apologize for the invasion of Moscow in 1612, for the burning of the Metropolitan Hermogenes, for participating in and inciting sedition. And what you did at the Ukrainian and Belarusian lands after the First World War? Incidentally, distinguished ancestors of the radical nationalists in Ukraine. During the Great Patriotic War, the SS amazed atrocities Uniates - the very Banderites that now glorifies Yushchenko. Perhaps the Nazis and wanted to have disappeared from the face of the earth all the Jews and Communists, but in the occupied territories have always preferred to do it by proxy. A Uniates simply enjoyed by committing atrocities, cutting out the stars on the back and chest casualties of the Jews and the Red Army, hanging, burning people ...

But I did something I think that the idea of throwing each other allegations of historical events and to demand an apology kneeling fundamentally wrong. We must look to the future and forgive each other, we are Christians!

Anastasia Pleshakova