Revisionism Implies Destruction of Historic Evidence, WWII Monuments – NGO

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov – Historic revisionism goes along with the destruction of WWII monuments and glorification of Nazi figures from the past, the administrator-general of the Eurasian Observatory for Democracy & Elections (EODE) told Sputnik on Thursday.

“The destruction of the evidence of the past [WWII monuments] goes along with the destruction of memory. Comes with the rehabilitation of black [Nazi] figures of the past. It is the processes at work in Poland and Romania. Two countries where Atlanticist circles and the US maintain the geopolitical and historical nostalgia of ‘past glory,’” Luc Michel said.

Atlanticism refers to a belief in the importance of cooperation between Europe, the United States and Canada on a wide range of issues, including sharing similar views on the interpretation of historic events.

Speaking of historic revisionism in Europe, Michel also touched upon the issue that is considered to be a “taboo in [modern] Bucharest” — systematic killings of Jews in Romania. More than 350,000 Romanian and Ukrainian Jews were killed by the Romanian army and gendarmerie in the Second World War period.

No other country except Germany participated so actively in the mass killings of Jews, Michel concluded.

In 2014, the Russian Foreign Ministry noticed an increased number of acts of vandalism directed at monuments to Soviet soldiers in Poland and attempts of unsanctioned relocation, reminding that over 600,000 Soviet soldiers died liberating Poland from Nazi forces during WWII.