Myths of history: interview on Avtokhvylia radio 102.1FM (20.05.2023)
A radio interview with Vitaliy Dribnytsya (creator of the Vox Veritatis project) on the “New Rules” programme of Avtokhvylia radio 102.1FM (host Tata Husar) — a lecture-monologue format on Russian historical myths. Central to the cult of the “Great Victory”: the “Great Patriotic War” as a war separate from World War II — a term that masks the start of WWII on 1 September 1939 and the role of the USSR as an aggressor of 1939–1941 together with Hitler (the joint partition of Poland, the parade in Brest, the annexation of the Baltic states and Bessarabia); the myth of the USSR as the sole victor. In passing — industrialization at the cost of famine, the Holodomor, the myth of a “gifted” Crimea. A source for the articles on the cult of the “Great Victory”, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and World War II. The video is age-restricted.
Key moments
- 01:10 Three global Russian myths about World War II (a separate "Great Patriotic War", no 1939–41 aggression, the USSR as victor)
- 01:55 World War II began on 1 September 1939; what the Red Army was doing in Poland in September 1939
- 03:48 The joint partition of Poland, the parade in Brest, "friendship sealed in blood"; Bessarabia, the Baltic states
- 05:23 The myth of Stalinist industrialization: plants were built with foreign specialists, the pace vs the human cost
- 08:55 The Holodomor as a man-made famine — a phenomenon exclusive to the USSR; why Russians deny it
- 19:04 The myth of a "gifted" Crimea: an administrative-economic decision, the borders of 1991
- 39:24 How a 2023 Russian differs from the Soviet person: ignorance of one's own borders