Anti-Soviet 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.

The history of the Soviet Union has long been an integral part of the ideology: what is good for the population and what is not good was determined by the politicians of the ruling party. Soviet history textbooks clearly regulated the quantity and quality of knowledge supplied to the people. Even now in Russia there are strange and sometimes terrible conflicts with historical science: on the one hand, official historians are fulfilling the order of the "party and government", looking for, for example, Vladimir Putin's pedigree, tracing genealogy that did not exist, on the other - in Russia There are many amateur historians who write about "Georgia - mountain Russia" or how the Russians conquered the Chinese empire in the first millennium BC.

The author is convinced that years will pass - and no one will need textbooks written at the time, nor multivolume scientific works praising the Soviet state. They will be stored in libraries as monuments to the post-Soviet ideology that destroyed everything from states to the psyche of a population that overnight became a great nation. These textbooks will be a testament to how pro-Russian figures on a regional scale have tried to put themselves on a par with great cultures and states.