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German Exhibition for the 75th Anniversary of the Potsdam Conference. Why Russia is not involved?

German Exhibition for the 75th Anniversary of the Potsdam Conference. Why Russia is not involved?

Exposition at the Cecilienhof Palace. Potsdam, summer 2020 of the year. A source: dw.com

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Cecilienhof took in 1945 the year of Stalin, Churchill and Truman. FROM 23 June there is a thematic exhibition "Potsdam Conference 1945 of the year: new structure of the world ". In total in Potsdam, the organizers managed to collect 133 of the subject, of historical value, from a dozen countries. Initially, artifacts from the Russian Victory Museum were to appear among the exhibits., Historical Museum and Central Museum of the Armed Forces. According to the aide to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, Stalin's personal belongings were planned to be sent to Potsdam, the form of the conference participants, Technical equipment, documents and household items. Even a corresponding agreement was signed. But when Russian historians prudently got acquainted with the content of the signatures to the exhibits and the commentaries of the audio guides, the entire exposition was recalled back to Moscow. As has often happened recently, the collective West and Russia view historical events and figures 75 years ago differently. The German side simply refused to use signatures and comments in the exposition., proposed by Russian museum workers. What are the contradictions?

German Exhibition for the 75th Anniversary of the Potsdam Conference. Why Russia is not involved?

In this photo, Winston Churchill is still in Potsdam.. A source: albercul.livejournal.com
First of all - in assessing the personality of Joseph Stalin. German researchers quite unequivocally equate his rule with tyranny, actually putting him on a par with Hitler. According to the exhibition curator Jurgen Lu, historians are free to interpret certain events, and no one can tell them. According to this "free" Western ideology, in World War II, two equally disgusting totalitarian powers clashed. One of them was successfully crushed in 1945 year, and the second was squeezed in every possible way until the beginning of the 90s.

The organizers of the exhibition were also not satisfied with the comments of the Russian side regarding the reason for the end of the war with Japan.. Germans insist, that victory was achieved solely through weapons of mass destruction (atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), and Russia - that thanks to the land operation of the Red Army. Jurgen Lu says:

“The Russian point of view has a right to exist, but does not quite correspond to reality ".
In accordance with old European slogans, historians from Potsdam directly reject the decisive importance of the Soviet Union in the victory over Nazism.. Choosing an expression carefully, talk about the great importance of the Red Army in the war. In ten years, I think, it will be about a large or significant value, and after some time - about a considerable contribution. As a result, the Germans will tell with a blue eye about the decisive and unconditional contribution of the Americans to the victory. And there is no nagging with wording or verbal phrases.. In such a delicate and sensitive sphere of historical memory, any semitones in the description are unacceptable - behind them are millions of human lives..

German Exhibition for the 75th Anniversary of the Potsdam Conference. Why Russia is not involved?

UK with 26 July 1945 of the year in Potsdam was represented by the new Prime Minister Clement Attlee. A source: waralbum.ru

German Exhibition for the 75th Anniversary of the Potsdam Conference. Why Russia is not involved?

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Even during an interview with Deutsche Welle, Jurgen Lu contradicts himself. Initially, he talks about the divergence with Russian colleagues in assessing the role of Stalin. (the Germans called him a dictator and a tyrant), and later on "absolutely neutral and correct formulations". for example, this is what you can hear about Stalin in the audio guide:

"Stalin was the only ruler and secured his power with the support of the secret police".
Ministry of Culture protested the definition of "secret police", but, obviously, Germans know better in this area. Moreover, the organizers of the exhibition, of course, upset by the lack of valuable exhibits from Russia. In particular, there will be no Stalin's tunic in Cecilienhof. There will be no part of Truman's personal belongings. it, true, not an American protest: The United States is just happy with everything in the new interpretation of the events of 75 years ago. There was simply no money to transport the American leader's straw hat across the ocean.

Visited exhibitions will come out in complete confidence, that what he saw is the collective opinion of the victor countries of Nazi Germany. After all, it is here 75 years ago, three leaders agreed on a post-war world order. And now Europe is emerging from the coronavirus epidemic, people are afraid of mass gatherings, and this raises questions about the payback of the exhibition, which has already been postponed for a month and a half. May be, The hype around the Russian protest will help the Germans attract new visitors?

Exposition in Potsdam, according to Russian historians, is a tracing of the European system of views on the results of the war. The Soviet Union is traditionally blamed for the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, naturally, renamed to the Stalin-Hitler Pact. Do not forget about the myths about the mass rapes of German women by the Red Army. The Holocaust is actually brought out by the organizers as the only crime of the Hitler regime, and the genocide of the peoples of the USSR is silent.

As a result, it is difficult to disagree with the words of Vladimir Medinsky regarding the forced Russian boycott:

“So that later visitors to this exhibition do not point fingers at the wrong signatures and listen to an unreliable audio guide about the work of the Soviet delegation and about the work of the Potsdam Conference in general”.

West against Yalta and Potsdam

The results of the Yalta and Potsdam conferences haunt the enlightened West for a long time. Several American remarks on this matter. Henry Kissinger:

"Yalta has become a symbol of shame in terms of shaping the image of the post-war world".

George W. Bush:

"No more Munichs and no Yalts".
He's in 2005 year in Riga he called the results of these conferences "treacherous".

At the same time, everyone forgets, that the main result of the Potsdam Conference was long-term peace in Europe and the creation of the United Nations with the Security Council. The role of the Soviet Union in this matter was one of the decisive. How long did the peace last after the Treaty of Versailles? 1919 of the year?

German Exhibition for the 75th Anniversary of the Potsdam Conference. Why Russia is not involved?

Cecilienhof Palace after restoration. A source: spsg.de
Need to say, that such rhetoric appeared in Europe and the United States only in the late 80s. At first, the generation of those, who remembered the merits of the Soviet Union in the fight against Nazism. They would, certainly, gagged by modern free historians, whose opinion does not depend on any government in the world. And secondly, the socialist system collapsed, The USSR was getting weaker, and therefore, to form a "special view" of the results of the war became easier and easier. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, a new, NATO-centric security system, which neither Yalta, Neither did Potsdam categorically suit. At the same time, the selective justice of Europeans is evident. One side, Poland unexpectedly demands reparations from Russia for many years of occupation. Recall, this very "occupation" was approved by the results of Yalta and Potsdam in 1945 year. On the other hand, Poles do not even hint at the return of vast territories to Germany, departed to the country by the decision of the same conferences. by the way, at the anniversary exhibition in Potsdam there is not a word about, how the Poles enthusiastically expelled the Germans from the "returned lands". Only Moscow is blamed for this! As in the atrocities, which Czechs allowed themselves against the Sudeten Germans.

German Exhibition for the 75th Anniversary of the Potsdam Conference. Why Russia is not involved?

German Exhibition for the 75th Anniversary of the Potsdam Conference. Why Russia is not involved?

Cecilienhof's hall 2020 and 1945 year. A source: spsg.de
Against this background, the Russian leadership undertook, perhaps, the only right step: 17 July, an alternative exhibition opens at the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Gora, dedicated to Potsdam 1945 of the year. The museum funds exhibit about 40 historical artifacts, directly related to the events of 75 years ago. Alexey Shkolnik, director of the museum, notes in this regard:

"Exhibition about the Potsdam Conference, I think, very relevant for today, she surprisingly resonates with many pressing problems of the modern world. First of all reminds everyone, who does not abandon attempts to revise the results of World War II, that the winning countries have adopted the final, non-contested decisions to punish those responsible for the outbreak of war and banned Nazism in all its forms and manifestations. Besides, she gives us all a convincing example of, as possible, being ideological and geopolitical opponents, together to solve world problems in the interests of their countries and the whole world ".
The Moscow exposition will stay in the museum until 10 August, but it will be possible to get acquainted with the Potsdam anniversary exhibition for a long time, to end 2020 of the year.

Yevgeny Fyodorov

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