On the issue of responsibility for falsifying information about the outbreak of the Second World War in the historiography of foreign countries in the 1960s–2000s

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of falsification of historical data on the outbreak of the Second World War. Despite the abundance of sources, documentaries, and memoirs on the events of World War II, this topic remains an endless one for scientists. The global crisis of world civilization in the middle of the twentieth century will long be transforming the views of historians. The sources and documentation currently available are, as a matter of principle, sufficient to provide an unbiased historical picture of these events, but the assessment of these events is still politically oriented. At the turn of the 20th-21st century, political forces emerged, both in Russia itself and near abroad, which grossly falsified history. One of the most topical topics examined in the article is the evaluation of international relations and diplomatic struggle on the eve of the Second World War. During the post-war period, many volumes of diplomatic documents, memoirs and diaries of statesmen, politicians, diplomats, numerous monographs and scientific articles were published. The chronicle of events that led to the bloodiest and
most destructive war in world history has been restored day after day. You’d think the subject was thoroughly researched, but scientists keep coming back to it. This is entirely understandable, because it involves responsibility for tens of millions of lives and broken human fates, for the incredible destruction and misery of many peoples.