Sales of books about Nazi Germany have sharply increased in Russia after the announcement of mobilization

Since the beginning of the “partial” mobilization, publishers in Russia have been observing a sharp increase in literature sales about the Second World War and Hitler Germany. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the data of the network representatives, the material of the publication was published with the heading "Third Reich found its reader."

So, sales of the book of Nicholas Stargardt “Mobilized Nation. Germany 1939–1945 ”grew five times in the“ read-Gorod ”and 17 times in Liters.

Since September 21, in the literature segment about the Second World War, sales growth in pieces is observed by 20%. At the same time, the most sharp dynamics are the book of Stargardt, which refers to how the Germans perceived the Second World War, it also includes studies of diaries and personal correspondence of citizens of the Third Reich. According to the representative of the book network “Read Gorod”, from September 21 to October 4, sales of books increased by 405% compared to September 7–20. Among the bestsellers are also the “memoirs under the Grif“ Secret ”by Pavel Sudoplatov,“ Victory in the Secret War. 1941-1945 "Nikolai Nikulin," Chronicle of the Secret of War and Diplomacy. 1938-1941 "Pavel Sudoplatov.

The Bombor publishing house told the publication that they have an increase in the sales of Julia Boyd’s book “Notes from the Third Reich. Life on the eve of war through the eyes of ordinary tourists ”since February. After September 21, the Russians again began to be interested in this book.

The general director of the Alpine publishing house Alexei Ilyin, in turn, noted that the demand for books on the history of World War II was recorded after February 24th and remains. Eric Larson’s book “In the Garden of Monsters” about Hitler Germany in the mid-1930s-one of the bestsellers of the publishing house, Winston Churchill’s “History of World War II” is also perfectly sold, he said.

The Litres Group of Companies told the publication that, although they observe the growth of demand for individual works, in general the publishers record a general decline in sales.

Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich believes that people need to explain that "is happening with our country." According to her, modern Russian media “can hardly offer an exhaustive, clear, conceptual explanation,” therefore people turn to literature.

“The literature that would record the events of the current moment directly is not yet written and will not be written for a long time. Therefore, intuitively people are looking for historical eras, the experience of which seems to them correlating. "

After the start of migration from Russia, people also began to read books of emigrants of the first wave, emphasizes Yuzefovich. She clarified that the Russians are looking for an explanation of what is happening in books about the Second World War, or about Nazi Germany, or about Stalinist Russia, trying to look for information where you can find a "convincing metaphor or allegory that will understand something about today."

Despite the fact that the Russian authorities often talk about the “fight against Nazism”, trying to justify their invasion of Ukraine, the slogans, similar to the Nazi, sound from the lips of Russian politicians. So, the chairman of the LDPR Leonid Slutsky at the funeral of Daria Dugina paraphrased the slogan of Nazi Germany:

“Regardless of the parties, there can be only one approach. One country. One president. One victory. " “One people, one Reich, one Fuhrer,” such a motto was printed on posters with a portrait of Hitler and was designed to reflect the task set by the Nazis to rally the Germans. Under this slogan in Austria, a referendum was held for a merger with Germany.

Also, accusing the Ukrainian fighters and the president of using supposedly “Nazi symbols” on the form, propagandists forget about cases when similar symbols were noticed on the uniform of military personnel in the Donbass. In April, a video of the award of “Particularly distinguished” was published on the website of the head of the “DPR” in the “Operation on the Liberation of Donbass”. Among the awarded there was a militia, on the uniform of which a patch in the form of a slightly modified Nazi emblem "Totenkopf" was visible. It was worn by soldiers of the 3rd Panzer Division of the SS "Dead Head". Also, on the sleeve of the militia, the Scandinavian symbol of Odin “Walkrut” was attached, which is often used by neopagowers and neo -Nazis. The military with Nazi stripes from the Somalia battalion, who fought with the Ukrainian Nationalists in Mariupol, the name of Roman Vorobyov, wrote later Mediazona. He is the commander of the assault platoon with the rank of senior lieutenant. Pushilin handed Vorobyov the St. George Cross of the II degree.