Russia is trying to build its national idea on the modernized myths of Soviet propaganda, in which the history of Ukraine is being translated. Moscow desperately resists the aspiration of Ukrainians to explore the past impartially - thus, it loses control over their consciousness.

This is on air "The Observer. LIVE ", said the historian, director of the National Museum-Memorial" Tyur on Lontsky "in Lviv Ruslan Zabily.

"The myth of the Great Patriotic War and the myth of the victory and liberation of Europe from the Nazis and Nazis gives the Russian government the opportunity to speculate and send" pencils "and" cucumbers "to die anywhere, in any country," he said..

"It happened more than once in the Soviet era and now it is happening," the expert said..

The historian stressed that Russia has cultivated a cult of aggressive war, which a priori can not be noble.

"A noble war can be in the case when a person protects his house from an attacking aggressor. Because there is no choice. Because he will die and not only he, but his family will be destroyed, "Zabil said..

He agreed that the Kremlin is waging an information war against common sense. Moscow is worried, the expert said, when the subjects of war, the liberation movement.

"When Russia rests - it means that she does not like what is happening on the historical field. The interest of Ukrainian society towards what was really happening, deprives Russia of its influence on the consciousness of people, "added the historian.

As reported by the "Observer", Zabiliy called the reason why the NKVD organs staged mass killings of people in western Ukraine on the second day of the war of the USSR with Germany.

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