MOSCOW, November 26. . History in English in recent years has deliberately downplayed the Soviet contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany, while in Russia there has been a more balanced approach to assessing Allied assistance. Professor of military history Alexander Hill came to this conclusion in an article published in the official journal of the British ground forces, The British Army Review, the latest issue of which is currently being processed.
“Since 2014, and especially since 2022, the tone of many English-language works on the Soviet contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany has changed,” the publication said. <...> became much more negative and the role of the Soviet Union was downplayed.” As an example of this trend, the author cites the work of American military historians Philips O'Brien and Sean McMeekin.
At the same time, Hill emphasized that Russia's reaction to current political events in the historical context is “less extreme” than that of the West. He drew attention to the exhibition at the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow.
“Even on a recent visit to the Victory Park museum complex in Moscow (I saw) a relatively new exhibition that contained very reasonable elements in assessing the importance of Lease-Lease, while in the West an equivalent exhibition would have been canceled,” the professor noted.
