General Mahmoud Gareev expose “teleprovokatsiyu” about the Great Patriotic War – Mosaic – News
March 31, 2009 – 9:09 pmThe Ministry of Defense is a very negative attitude to the film “Rzhev. Unknown Battle of Georgy Zhukov, said on Tuesday in Moscow and Head of the educational work of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Anatoly Bashlakov, reports RIA Novosti.
This documentary film was shown in one of the central TV channels on 23 February this year, the Day of Defender of the Fatherland.
“In preparing the film does not take into account the opinion of experts, veterans, participants in the fighting. This teleprovokatsiya” – Bashlakov said, speaking at the seventh meeting of the Central Council of Defense to Veterans Affairs.
According to him, is now prepared to print an interview with the president of the Academy of Military Science Army General Mahmoud Gareev in which sounds reasonable rebuttal to the film distorted the facts from the standpoint of military history.
Earlier, the chairman of the commission the Public Chamber of Russian Federation for veterans, military personnel and their families Kanshin Alexander said that the public, Veterans, reserve officers are serious concerns the attempts of some media to rewrite the history of the military. He appealed to any insinuation of heroic history.
Rzhev were fighting under one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II. The total loss of the Red Army, according to official figures, more than a million people. Rzhev and neighboring cities were completely destroyed.
