Presentation of the book “Партитура Второй мировой. Гроза на Востоке” took place in Moscow ahead of the 65th anniversary of the end the Second World War.
The new book is of great interest because it includes the works of historians of a number of countries and many archival documents concerning international interaction in the fight against the Japanese aggressors in the Far East, territorial disputes in the Asia-Pacific Region, the Kuril Islands problem, and the fate of the Japanese prisoners of war. The compilers of the book put themselves the task to completely exclude Eurocentrism, which prevails in the historical documents of the past and to pay attention to Asia, the peoples of which suffered less during the Second World War, Academician Vladimir Myasnikov says.
"The Japanese seized Nanking and slaughtered 300,000 people in one night. This could be compared with the extermination of people in the Oswiecim and Treblinka concentration camps. But just a few people know what happened in Asia."
On the other hand, the policy of hushing up historical facts and - which happens very often - the purposeful falsification of history leads to the appearance of historical versions, which, at times, border on the absurd, Professor Anatoly Koshkin from the Eastern University says.
"There have emerged new ideas in Japan, which were included in the recently printed textbooks. It was written there that the Sino-Japanese was inspired and prepared by Stalin with the help of the Communist International (Comintern)."
The poor Japanese were dragged into China, where they were forced to behead the Chinese in Nanking. Or let’s take the version, saying that the former Soviet Union decided to enter the war, aiming to return the territories of Southern and Kuril Islands. There was no need at all for this.
The Japanese themselves made a proposal to hand over these territories to the former Soviet Union on condition that Stalin should refrain from entering the war. Instead, he should help Japan reach an agreement with the Americans about an honourable peace: It’s high time that this flow of false information, concerning the role of the Soviet Union in the victory in the Second World War, as well as many other erroneously interpreted historical moments, be halted, continues Anatoly Koshkin. And a very important step in this direction is the publication of the book.
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