The German coverage of the war memorial, the significance of this historic event needs in any way. On the one is a degree of surprise felt that the Russians still attach the "old" practices which should be obsolete after German understanding ago. Sticking to this day you receive the declared expression of Russian backwardness, militarism and "self-presentation of the Putin regime." Spiegel Online launched just the day of victory no less than five articles about the supposed Stalin cult in Russia, as if it is to this day primarily to Stalin. "Everyone wants to be a Russian, Stalin and World Online, of course, is also nothing better than to set an article of the Russian writer Viktor Erofeev opposition with the title. Why must all just be a day of victory? Stalin's theme is a very broad and is not specifically related to this day that stands for something completely different. The amplified stomping on Stalin, on time to the day of victory, suggesting a willingness to relativize this evil holiday.
It is not even a serious reason to subject Russia to be a Stalin cult. Russich the media, the Russian cinema and literature translated both in the nineties, and now intensively with Stalinist repression. There are a plethora of films, television series, memorials and archives, can learn with the help of which everyone has the truth. The Russian State Stalin is a clear assessment: a criminal, whose methods are to be excused by nothing. That some, particularly older people to defend themselves against all the information that is available today, and stubborn set and have still not changed their views on Stalin - is a fact that is against you with the best will probably not be able to make similar to diehard supporters of the radical right-wing thought in the world. So why make the tendentious, misplaced attacks on the day of victory?
That the Germans, the significance of this day for Russia often do not understand the full extent is, but also that the general media illumination of this war all other than balanced, fair and neutral. The focus on German victims has been anything made in the shade. Mantra-like run in the public service documentaries on the bombing of German cities, the flight from the eastern territories, the destruction of German ships, the fate of German prisoners of war, etc., so that the younger generation almost get the impression must be that the Germans were the main victims of the Second World War II was.
issues such as hunger blockade of Leningrad, where about 1 million civilians died from exhaustion, the incredible massacre of civilians during the "anti-partisan," just as the ruthless Soviet bombing of large cities by the German air force, which over 3 million Soviet dead in a German POW camp - is hardly worth all this. Although the oberflächlche knowledge about the casualty of the Soviet Union for most people is available. What does this mean in detail, however, from which this figure was composed, confronted with the terror and suffering of the people of the Soviet Union - all of this is at most a narrow circle of specialists known.
This bias in the workup of the Second World War, which one is observed in Germany has a very sad situation. Just that would be a topic that the hacks in the newsroom, which should present so much as advocates of morality, take up no less than the supposed Stalin cult in Russia. It is supposed to return is known only from their own stables.
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