Experts of the Council of Ministers intend to protect the October Revolution from falsifications

Experts of the Scientific Council of the Security Council discussed preparations for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution, noting "the need to resist attempts to deliberately distort this and other most important periods in Russian history." According to Kommersant, according to SB experts, historical memory becomes the object of "targeted destructive actions by foreign state structures and international organizations implementing geopolitical interests in the mainstream of anti -Russian policy." In this regard, they noted, the forms of preventive work and operational response to attempts to falsify history are needed.

As the main threats associated with them, the participants in the Council of Council of Security Council called the conduct of information campaigns, the historical illiteracy of youth, the disappearance of historical popular science books as an independent literary genre.

SB experts have determined six main most significant historical events and periods, subject to falsification and needing protection. This is the national policy of the Russian Empire, the national policy of the USSR, the role of the USSR in the victory over fascism in the Second World War, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the USSR and political crises in the GDR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and other former social stations.

The approximation in 2017 of the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, according to the participants in the meeting, may also be a reason for attempts to deliberately distort this historical period.

The meeting participants recommended SB to pursue a coordinated information policy, to create, develop and implement mechanisms for identifying the signs of information campaigns aimed at distorting history in the media and to involve the member state of the organized security agreement to joint events.

In July, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky said that the struggle against the falsification of the history of Russia is still relevant, since this is "the struggle for human souls."

"At one time, I worked in the commission on countering the falsifications of history. And what conclusion I am now coming: you won’t be stolen for all falsifications. They are breaking up faster than we expose this lie," Medinsky said.