Anti-Russian stories

Oleg Panfilov (b. 1957) is a journalist, human rights activist, publicist, historian, professor, former author and host of programs on Radio Liberty and the Russian-language TV channel PIK, Georgia. Author of screenplays for eight films, more than 3,000 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 48 books. Knight of the Order of Honor, Georgia.

Inventing one's own personal history in Russia began during the Russian monarchical Romanov dynasty, which established censorship committees and banned the import of books by foreign historians about Russia, which set out an unflattering truth. Russian censors have ruthlessly cut not only sentences and paragraphs, but entire chapters, sometimes banning books altogether. After the victory of the Bolsheviks in 1917, historical censorship became the basis for the formation of a new ideology, and after the cleansing of "harmful" books and magazines, repression and deportation of scientists, the population of the Soviet empire knew only the history allowed to teach in schools and universities.

In his book Anti-Russian Stories, the author uses numerous examples to show how pro-Kremlin historians, with the help of invented "antiquity", still convince their own population and the world community of the greatness of the "nation state".