Antisovetskie istorii
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translation: Anti-Soviet stories
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Oleg Panfilov (b. 1957) is a journalist, human rights activist, publicist, historian, professor, former author and host of a program on Radio Liberty and the Russian-language TV channel PIK, Georgia. Author of scripts for eight films, more than 5000 articles published in newspapers and magazines in Russia, USA, Pakistan, Iran, Israel, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, winner of international awards, author and co-author of more than 50 books. Cavalier of the Order of Honor, Georgia. The history of the Soviet Union has long become an integral part of the ideology: what is beneficial for the population to know and what is not beneficial was determined by the policies of the ruling party. Soviet history textbooks clearly regulated the quantity and quality of knowledge supplied to the people. And now in Russia, strange and sometimes terrible collisions are taking place with historical science: on the one hand, official historians are fulfilling the order of the “party and government”, looking for, for example, the genealogy of Vladimir Putin, outlining a genealogy that did not exist, on the other hand, Russia has there are a lot of amateur historians writing works about "Georgia - mountainous Russia" or about how the Russians captured the Chinese empire in the 1st millennium BC.
