Natalya Narochnitskaya: fighter against historical falsifications

Natalia Alekseevna Narochnitskaya
(born December 23, 1948) is a Russian historian, political scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Specialist and expert on the USA, Germany and general problems and trends in international relations.

Biography[edit]

ON THE. Narochnitskaya comes from a noble family.

Grandfather - Leonty Fedorovich Narochnitsky worked as the director of a public school, then a gymnasium in Chernigov. My grandmother taught at the same gymnasium.

Father - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences A.L. Narochnitsky, born in 1907, author of fundamental works on the history of international relations, scientific director of the publication of diplomatic documents of Russian foreign policy in the 19th century. He came to science thanks to the efforts of Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences E.V. Tarle, who noticed the young and talented student A.L. Narochnitsky and involved him in the publication of diplomatic documents on Russian foreign policy. A.L. Narochnitsky was a laureate of the Stalin Prize.

Older brother A.L. Narochnitsky - Yuri Narochnitsky was arrested and disappeared in 1937.

Natalia Narochnitskaya's maternal grandfather Ivan Podolyansky is a full Knight of St. George, ensign of the Russian army

Mother - Lidia Ivanovna (Podolyanskaya) Narochnitskaya (1922-2012) - was born in the Smolensk region, from the age of 19 she was a participant in the partisan movement in Belarus during the Great Patriotic War, was captured by the Nazis, imprisoned, and escaped from a concentration camp. In 1947, after graduating from college, she became the wife of a talented scientist. The difficulties of their life, which repeated the sharp turns of the history of the Soviet Union, brought them closer together. Lidia Ivanovna and Alexey Leontievich lived together for more than forty years. Lidia Ivanovna taught and did research. She became a well-known specialist in the history of Russian foreign policy in the second half of the 19th century. She defended her PhD thesis and published a large number of scientific works, including two monographs - “Russia and the wars of Prussia in the 60s of the 19th century for the unification of Germany “from above” (M., 1960) and “Russia and the abolition of the neutralization of the Black Sea 1856-1871 years"; (M.: Nauka, 1989), co-author of the multi-volume collective work “History of the USSR from ancient times to the present day.” Based on documents, her works have not lost scientific relevance to this day, and even now researchers who study international relations during the Crimean War of 1853-1856 cannot do without them. and the Balkan crisis of 1877-1878. Another work by Lidia Ivanovna is “Russia and the national liberation movement in the Balkans 1875-1878.” – To the centenary of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878,” which touches on the prehistory of Russian- and Serbian-Turkish relations and conflicts, contributed to the understanding of the development of Turkish-Slavic relations - from the moment the Turks appeared in Europe in the 14th century. until the end of the 1870s.

According to N.A. Narochnitskaya: “By the way, we were all members of the CPSU, and in the house there was a very patriotic atmosphere with a red diploma”) Faculty of “International Relations” Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 1971-1981 Studied at graduate school at MGIMO University of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Junior, then senior researcher at IMEMO, USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1982-1989. worked at the UN Secretariat in New York (USA).

Then she returned to work at IMEMO.

The topic of the doctoral dissertation ended with the publication of the monograph “Russia and Russians in World History.”

In the 1990s. was an activist of the Constitutional Democratic Party - the People's Freedom Party, the All-Russian National Right, the "Derzhava" movement, and the "Zemsky Sobor".

She protested against the Belovezhskaya Accords of December 1991, which led to the collapse of the USSR. She immediately took an Orthodox-patriotic position, which caused hostility towards her from liberal circles. Together with N.A. Narochnitskaya also spoke out against the teachings of Marxism, emphasizing that this system of ideas is outdated, is directly related to the West and is a product of Western liberal ideology.

In 2003, she was elected to the State Duma from the Rodina electoral bloc. Member of the faction “A Just Russia - “Motherland” (People’s Patriotic Union).” Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, Chairman of the Commission for the study of the practice of ensuring human rights and fundamental freedoms, monitoring their implementation in foreign countries.

In 2004, she founded and headed the Foundation for the Study of Historical Perspective. Founder of the electronic edition of the newspaper “Century” (2004)

Member of the editorial board of the series “Current History”

In 2008, she headed the Paris branch of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation.

He has extensive scientific connections in Germany, France, Serbia, and Italy.

On February 6, 2012, she was officially registered by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation as a proxy of the candidate for President of the Russian Federation and the current Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin.

Political activities and views

Politician Natalia Alekseevna Narochnitskaya, brought up on Christian values, preaches conservative Orthodox ideas and is also a supporter of democracy. In 2003, she was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Rodina bloc and worked on the International Affairs Committee. The woman was the deputy head of the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and ensured that PACE began a constructive discussion about global problems of interaction between Russia and Europe. During the 2012 election campaign, Narochnitskaya was registered as a confidant of V.V. Putin, represented him at debates, for example, met with V. Zhirinovsky.

Awards[edit]

On November 3, 2008, on the eve of the Celebration of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and National Unity Day, she was awarded the Order of Princess Olga, 3rd degree.

Recognized with the Olympia nomination for social activities in 2006.

He has the Order of the Transnistrian Republic for protecting the interests of the Russian population.

September 21, 2014 N.A. Narochnitskaya was awarded the Order of Honor.

On June 22, 2015, an awards ceremony for the French non-profit association La Renaissance Française took place in Moscow. N.A. received a gold medal for her activities. Narochnitskaya.

On October 11, 2015, the ceremony of presenting the International Concord Prize, established by the Union of Armenians of Russia in 2014, took place at the State Kremlin Palace. Natalia Narochnitskaya was awarded the prize with the wording “For consistency in defending the interests of the Russian Federation.” NATALIA NAROCHNITSKAYA AWARDED THE “CONSENT” PRIZE

NATALIA NAROCHNITSKAYA WAS AWARDED THE PRIZE NAMED AFTER A.I. HERZEN

The solemn ceremony, held on February 19, 2021 at the Herzen Regional Library, was attended by the Governor of the Kirov Region N. Belykh, as well as the Deputy Chairman of the Regional Government A. Galitskikh, the Minister of Culture of the Kirov Region A. Skalny, as well as writers and university teachers , library workers, local historians, representatives of the public and the media.[1]

The “Terra Incognita” award ceremony took place at the XXX Moscow International Book Fair. Natalia Narochnitskaya, awarded in the “History of the Fatherland” category. [2].

The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia hosted a solemn ceremony of awarding the laureates of the historical and literary prize “Clio”, which is awarded for outstanding achievements and significant contributions to the popularization of history and the formation of Russian historical culture. This year the prize was awarded to the President of the Foundation for the Study of Historical Perspective, Doctor of Historical Sciences Natalia Narochnitskaya for her “cumulative contribution to historical literature.”

The award was presented by the Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Support of Literature, Book Publishing and Reading in the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Russian Historical Society Sergei Naryshkin and President of the Russian Book Union Sergei Stepashin. Natalia Narochnitskaya received the Clio Award

Awards and achievements

Narochnitskaya Natalia Alekseevna, whose biography is closely connected with the activities of the Orthodox Church, has been repeatedly awarded high awards. She is a holder of the Orders of Saint Olga Equal to the Apostles and Great Martyr Barbara. She was also awarded the Olympia Prize for her social activities, and from the Russian government the woman received a Presidential Certificate of Honor and an Order of Honor for her great contribution to the preservation of traditional Russian culture. Natalya Alekseevna also has several awards from other countries, for example, the Medal of Merit from the Serbian government.

Scientific, political and social activities[edit]

ON THE. Narochnitskaya. Photo.

ON THE. Narochnitskaya is the author of fundamental developments on Russian foreign policy, the problems of the relationship between Russian national-statist consciousness and the philosophy of Western European liberalism.

ON THE. Narochnitskaya constantly spoke at hearings of the State Duma on foreign policy, international conferences, and published more than 40 pp. scientific works, regular author of the journal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation “International Affairs”.

ON THE. Narochnitskaya, an experienced polemicist on international and philosophical issues, writing and discussing freely in English and German, successfully speaks and publishes abroad, in particular, in Western European national conservative circles, which are concerned about the loss of Europe’s role as an independent subject of world history and culture and diktat of the USA and NATO (Spain, V Congress “Cultura Europea” 1998; Austria, Institute of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, January 2000; “Eurobalkan” magazine, Athens).

She was one of the initiators and co-chairs of many forums and associations of the Russian public (such as the World Russian Council), the author of their conceptual programs, statements in defense of the indivisibility of Russia, in support of the Russian Orthodox Church, the actions of the Russian army in Chechnya in 1994-1996, against NATO expansion to the east and aggression against Yugoslavia.

He considers an indispensable condition for the success of Russian foreign policy in the modern situation to be a return to its traditional foundations and the study of the experience of Russian diplomacy acquired in situations of the most complex confrontation on the world stage, characterized by the interaction of diverse and multidirectional political forces.

Supports the desire of Western European national conservative circles to restore Europe's lost role as an independent subject of world history and culture, and to counter the dictates of the United States and NATO.

Creators - A.I. Kovalchuk, N.A. Narochnitskaya, E.A. Bondareva, G.I. Pravotvorov. Belgrade (Serbia). November 15, 2014 [[3]]

ON THE. Narochnitskaya maintains scientific and public relations with Western European scientists and scientific centers (Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Greece), which advocate for the preservation of European states of their sovereignty, against globalization and the dictates of supranational ideological, financial and military mechanisms.

She enjoys great prestige and fame in Yugoslavia, where she was awarded for her scientific and social activities. Her book “Orthodoxy, Russia and Russians on the threshold of the third millennium” has been prepared for publication in Belgrade.

ON THE. Narochnitskaya said that the Historical Perspective Foundation recently held a conference in Prague at which it presented a book on pre-war diplomacy. In it, major Czech historians working with documents about the Second World War directly quoted that “the only power that had clean hands before Czechoslovakia was the Soviet Union.” The Foundation's books were published in five European countries: France, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia.

President of the Historical Perspective Foundation N.A. Narochnitskaya: “The Foundation has now published articles by British and American war correspondents from the Battle of Stalingrad. I presented this collection at Columbia University, and with great success. In the correspondence of these people there is empathy, sympathy, the spirit of the Soviet soldier is glorified, quotes from telegrams of King George VI, Roosevelt. On the saber, which King George VI gave to the people of Stalingrad, it was engraved: the citizens of the city have steel,” said N.A. Narochnitskaya. This collection does not need any comments, but such books are necessary and useful especially in European countries. At the conference N.A. Narochnitskaya presented this collection.[2].

November 5, 2014 in the conference hall of the IDS in Paris with the participation of N.A. Narochnitskaya held a presentation of the book “Putin,” the author of which is the editor-in-chief of the French magazine “Valeurs actuels” Frederic Pons.

February 4-5, 2015 N.A. Narochnitskaya took part in the international scientific conference “Yalta-45: past, present, future”, held under the arches of the Livadia Palace in Crimea and dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Crimean Conference of Heads of State of the Anti-Hitler Coalition.

The conference was opened by N.A. Narochnitskaya, President of the Foundation for Historical Perspective, Head of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation (Paris). Also speaking at the opening of the conference were A.E. Karpov, President of the International Association of Peace Foundations, K.N. Kostin, Chairman of the Board of the Civil Society Development Fund, L.V. Dekusheva, director of the Livadia Palace museum.

S.E. took part in the scientific conference. Naryshkin, Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Russian Historical Society.

The conference program included three plenary sessions: “International relations during the Second World War. The Yalta Conference as a diplomatic result of the alliance”, “Post-war architecture of international relations. The role of the decisions of Yalta and Potsdam in the prevention of large-scale military conflicts,” “The Yalta system and modern geopolitical processes.” The conference was attended by foreign experts Sakwa Richard, Coquin François-Xavier, Arrignon Jean-Pierre, Bachmeier Peter, Czeslaw Partach, Adam Schmech, John Lockland, Almond Marc, Henri Temple, Andres Bareira Gonzalez, Traksialis Yurijus, Moreau Xavier.[3 ].

NATALIA NAROCHNITSKAYA JOINED THE PUBLIC CHAMBER OF RUSSIA

President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin approved the composition of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. The corresponding decree was published on the official portal of legal information.

“The Public Chamber is not a power structure; it does not make any decisions that are binding. But she has the right, by law, to necessarily invite officials from the relevant departments to her meetings, where they present the trends in society identified by these studies, and this helps,” historian and political scientist N.A. is sure. Narochnitskaya.[4].

ON THE. Narochnitskaya with portraits of her front-line parents during the procession of the “Immortal Regiment” on Red Square. Moscow. May 9, 2017 Photo from the site: DEAR FRIENDS, CONGRATULATIONS ON THE GREAT VICTORY DAY!

Social activity

Since the time of Perestroika, Natalya Narochnitskaya, whose biography is closely intertwined with the Christian movement in Russia, has begun to engage in social activities. In the 90s, she became an activist of the People's Freedom Party, a participant in the "Derzhava" and "Zemsky Sobor" movements. She co-chaired the congresses of the first and second World Russian Councils - this platform was created for people interested in the unity of the Russian nation around the world.

Narochnitskaya was among the group of authors of the most important documents adopted by the Council. In particular, the Act on the Unity of the Russian People, which declared our compatriots a divided nation with the right to reunification. The woman took an active part in the creation of a large number of social movements that significantly influenced post-Soviet Russian society: the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, the Russian World Foundation, and the Unity of Orthodox Peoples Foundation. In 2004, she created the organization “Historical Perspectives”, which deals with the problems of the future of the country.

In 2008, by decision of Russian President V.V. Putin, a woman became the head of the European Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in Paris; she does a lot to strengthen friendship between Russia and France. Over the four years of operation, the Institute, under the leadership of Narochnitskaya, held about 50 events aimed at maintaining democracy in Russia and establishing the country’s external relations.

ON THE. Narochnitskaya about:[edit]

The shooting of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation and the constitutional crisis in the fall of 1993[edit]

– I think that society is now rethinking what happened in October 1993. And many more people now regard this as a tragedy and a revolution than when all this was obscured by some slogans. For me, what happened 20 years ago was certainly a tragedy, and I almost participated in it. If at that moment I had not been far from the scene of events, at one of the Orthodox seminars, then, of course, I would have been inside the White House, along with my comrades.

Today, it is probably clear to everyone that there was a staged performance with provocations and the like. It was not for nothing that CNN then prepared a place for itself on the roof of one of the houses in order to film tank fire on the building of the Supreme Council. People died, this is a drama and, of course, a shame for the entire international community, which applauded this obviously lawless act - the shooting of its own legitimate parliament.

This lesson should serve us for a very long time: no one, on any side, can bring their political position to such ecstasy as to move on to civil war. It is in those moments when they stand and heart-rendingly shout “Kill the reptile!” that everyone should come to their senses and prevent the irreparable. Do you remember how shamefully our intelligentsia acted then? At that moment she collapsed in my eyes forever. Not all the intelligentsia, of course. I know those people who took positions opposite to mine, and, nevertheless, expressed indignation and even called me to ask if I was alive... I respect such liberals.

At moments like 20 years ago, it is losses and losses that overtake the country. In a civil confrontation, the winning side always demands support from everyone and everything, including from the outside, and then becomes an obedient instrument in the hands of others. This is also one of the lessons. And thank God that there are no prerequisites for a repetition of such a drama now.[5].

Reunification of Crimea with Russia[edit]

“If the annexation of Crimea had not taken place, then a year after the Maidan our Black Sea Fleet would have been expelled from Sevastopol, setting up a NATO base there. And this would be the end for Russia as a great power, Natalia Narochnitskaya, President of the Foundation for the Study of Historical Perspective, Doctor of Historical Sciences, shared her vision of the situation in a commentary for RF Today. Thank God it didn't happen. Our “strategic friends” themselves opened our eyes to how close we came to disaster when, in a fit of “new thinking,” we abandoned the traditional foundations of foreign policy and even the concept of “national interests.” Today we realized: the West respects those who respect themselves, respect strength. “This is what we stood for and will continue to stand for. And this land cannot be taken away from us. And like a prayer, I repeat the words: While we are alive, Russia is alive!..”[6].

Selected statements from Narochnitskaya

• The US is by far the number one power - how can we ignore it? Therefore, the coolest Slavophile must admit that we are absolutely doomed to have good working relations with the United States. If a state has a serious, strategic foreign policy, it must be multi-vector.
• Thanks to the light hand of some historians, the interpretation of the war has become completely different. Only territorial results in favor of the USSR are being questioned. And this suggests that the main goal of demonizing the Soviet Union and identifying with Hitler's Nazism is to question these results. Then the USSR’s signature on all documents, international treaties, and the UN Charter can be devalued. Take away the country's veto power. And then you can do whatever you want. To the point of challenging the legitimacy of the territory and statehood.
• Our people are tired of hearing their history mocked. And they involuntarily provoked a reaction in him to defend and rehabilitate Stalin.
• Most Russians in Latvia would like to become full citizens and participate in its political and social life. To have the right to vote and be elected, to hold important positions... And this corresponds to the democratic standards of Europe... We must stand up for our compatriots. For those wishing to obtain Russian citizenship - provide it. For those wishing to become citizens of Latvia, ensure that they receive it.
• Russian statehood, the Russian nation, was formed thanks to Orthodoxy.

Monographs and publications[edit]

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Review of Natalia Narochnitskaya’s book “Russian Development Code”, prepared by A.N. Savelyev

• ON THE. Narochnitskaya. Russian development code. M.: Knizhny Mir Publishing House, 2013. 352 p. (Serve Russia). ISBN 978-5-8041-0603-5. Circulation 2000 copies.

Book cover.

• Stalingrad. Hitler's greatest failure (preface by the President of the Historical Perspective Foundation N.A. Narochnitskaya, as well as an introductory article by I.V. Nogaev, senior researcher at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
• I.F. Maksimychev. “Russia-Germany. War and Peace. From world catastrophes to European security." (published with the support of the Historical Perspective Foundation. Foreword by N.A. Narochnitskaya).
• ON THE. Narochnitskaya. The USA and the new “Ostpolitik” of Germany. M.: Nauka Publishing House, 1979.
• ON THE. Narochnitskaya. Russia and Russians in world history. M.: International Relations Publishing House, 2005. 536 p. ISBN 5-7133-1132-5. Circulation: 6000 copies.
• ON THE. Narochnitskaya. Why and with whom we fought. M.: Publishing House Past, 2005. 80 p.: ill. ISBN 5-902073-37-5. Circulation: 27,000 copies.
• ON THE. Narochnitskaya. Russian world. Publisher: M.: Aletheya, 2007. 320 p. ISBN 978-5-91419-046-7. Circulation: 5000 copies.
• ON THE. Narochnitskaya. Great wars of the 20th century. M.: Publishing house: Iris-Press, 2007. 248 p. ISBN 978-5-8112-2912-3. Circulation: 5000 copies.
• ON THE. Narochnitskaya. Russia and Russians in the modern world. M.: Publishing house: Algorithm, 2009. 416 p. ISBN 978-5-9265-0657-7. Circulation 5000 copies; M.: Algorithm, Yauza, 2011. 416 p. Circulation 3000 copies.
• J. Lockland. A travesty of justice: The Hague Tribunal against Slobodan Milosevic. Per. from English S.A. Minina; foreword by N.A. Narochnitskaya; afterword by R. Clark. M.: “Russian Panorama”, 2009. ISBN 978-5-93165-240-5
• ON THE. Narochnitskaya. V.M. Falin. Score of the Second World War. Who started the war and when? M.: ID Veche, 2009. 416 pp.: ill. — (Current history). ISBN 978-5-9533-4298-8
• ON THE. Narochnitskaya. Great wars of the twentieth century. Revision and truth of history. M.: Veche Publishing House, 2010. 352 pp.: ill. — (Current history). ISBN 978-5-9533-4887-4. Circulation: 5000 copies.
• Yalta-45. Outlines of a new world. (Response ed. N.A. Narochnitskaya). M.: ID Veche, 2010. 288 p.: ill. — (Current history). ISBN 978-5-9533-4444-9; ISBN 978-5-9533-4615-3. Circulation: 5000 copies.

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• Prokhanov A., Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), Narochnitskaya N. Putin: Keystone of Russian statehood. — (Collection of the Izborsk Club). M.: Publishing house: Knizhny mir, Izborsky Club, 2014. 284 p. ISBN 978-5-8041-0712-4. Circulation: 1000 copies.
• Light and shadows of the Great War. The First World War in documents of the era Scientific supervisors of the project: Doctor of Historical Sciences. ON THE. Narochnitskaya, Ph.D. A.K. Sorokin. The authors of the article part of the publication are Doctor of Historical Sciences. A.A. Ivanov, Ph.D. B.S. Kotov, Doctor of Historical Sciences A.V. Repnikov. Publication of documents - leading specialist of RGASPI E.L. Saturday. M.: Publishing house Russian Political Encyclopedia (ROSSPEN), 2014. 414 p.: ill. — (First World War. Great. 1914–1918). ISBN 978-5-8243-1898-2. Circulation: 3000 copies. A UNIQUE EDITION “THE LIGHT AND SHADOWS OF THE GREAT WAR” HAS BEEN PUBLISHED. THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN DOCUMENTS"

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• “Russia on the Serbian Front of the First World War” M.: Veche, 2014. New edition of FIP. This book opens the series of publications “Return of Lost History. First World War”, prepared by the Veche publishing house and the N.A. Historical Perspective Foundation. Narochnitskaya.
• “Heroes of the Great War 1914 - 1918. M.: Veche, 2014. The book continues the joint series of the Historical Perspective Foundation N.A. Narochnitskaya and the Veche publishing house “Return of Lost History. First World War."
• Russia and the world: anatomy of modern processes: Collection of articles/Ed. ON THE. Narochnitskaya. – M.: International Relations, 2014. – 680 p.
• Narochnitskaya N.A. CONCENTRATION OF RUSSIA. BATTLE FOR THE RUSSIAN WORLD. (“IZBORSK CLUB COLLECTION”). M.: Knizhny mir, 2014. 316 p. Circulation 2000 copies. ISBN 978-5-8041-0726-1

Educational activities

Narochnitskaya Natalia Alekseevna, whose photo can be seen in many popular science magazines, is actively involved in educational activities. She is an experienced polemicist and actively participates in television and Internet discussions. The woman writes a lot of articles for various magazines, gives interviews, and publishes brilliant journalistic works. For example, the following works belong to her pen: “The Great Wars of the 20th Century”, “What and with whom we fought”, “Orthodoxy, Russia and Russians on the threshold of the third millennium”, etc.

Performances[edit]

SPEECH BY NATALIA NAROCHNITSKAYA AT THE GOLD MEDAL AWARDING JUNE 22, 2015

I thank dear Alexander Sergeevich Sokolov for his flattering review of my humble person! I sincerely thank Mrs. Zoe Arrinon and Mr. Jean Francois Malcaire for the honor bestowed upon me for this prestigious medal! Our family's professional life has always been connected with France! My father, academician Alexey Leontyevich Narochnitsky, was a recognized expert in international relations during the Napoleonic wars! My sister Catherine, who is present here, is the author of a profound book on French military policy! And so I had the honor of starting the project of the European Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in Paris.

France has always been surrounded by an aura of attractiveness in Russia. Even the Napoleonic invasion did not leave an irreparable painful mark in the hearts of the Russians.

In Russia there is no need to talk about the culture of France; for Russians, Europe, France, the very name of the country have always been, first of all, a cultural concept. And today we come to France to admire the palaces and bridges, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the castles of the Loire. We, accustomed to the contrasts between the capital and the provinces, are fascinated by the French countryside. We are still looking for the heroes of A. Dumas, read by all Soviet generations, for whom honor and duty are more valuable than life.

Russians know a lot about food and are willing to spend huge amounts of money on lavish feasts. French gastronomy is no less attractive to Russians than its cultural heritage!

France for us is a country with a rich history, just like our Russia! We both embody the pulse of great quests - Christian ideals, the struggle of ideas, overthrow, revolution... Educated Russians read Stendhal and Flaubert, Proust and Hugo, romantic girls, like me at the age of 16, cried over Cyrano de Bergerac...

In the USSR, we knew from school that France was the birthplace of the revolutionary struggle, and this also made us closer. Lenin and Trotsky, who repeated the “revolutionary terror” after Robespierre, believed that they were continuing the French Revolution.

France is an ally for us in world wars. A wonderful film was made about the Normandy-Niemen squadron in the USSR. Spectators cried when two comrades - a French pilot and a Russian mechanic - refused to use the only parachute and died together. Of course, I met the guardians of our military brotherhood at the Normandie-Niemen Museum in Les Andelyses. A lot of romantic things in the minds of Russian people are associated with General de Gaulle, who saved the honor and dignity of France during the Second World War.

For today's Russians, France is also the second homeland of thousands of Russian emigrants. Many of us rush to the Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois cemetery to venerate the graves of our compatriots.

Of course, some things surprise us! Since we consider France a friendly state, we do not understand the hostility of many French newspapers. Fortunately, the responses of ordinary French people to articles about Russia on the Internet are much more friendly to us. Nevertheless, the level of sympathy for France in Russia remains high. After all, in Soviet times we learned not to trust newspapers! It turned out that the life of a Frenchman is more regulated by a schedule than in Russia, where they have lunch at 12 and 16, at 24 and do not have lunch at all, where they go on vacation in May and September.

And yet, in France, Russian people find a lot of things that objectively do not exist and will never exist in Russia. This is not democracy and human rights at all! Green parks from March to December and flowers behind the twisted cast-iron bars of Parisian windows on the eve of Christmas - this is what delights Russians, because our homeland has been knee-deep in snow for almost 5 months!

But seriously, I am convinced that in the coming world only the interaction of all the cultural components of Europe - Romano-Germanic Europe and Slavic Europe, Latin Europe and Orthodox Europe - will give both of us impetus! And therefore, the future of Europe is the future of Russia, and vice versa, the future of Russia is the future of Europe and its pearl - “beautiful France”!

Russia has a common future with Europe and its pearl - “beautiful France”!

Whose terror is worse?

Vladimir Kozhemyakin, “AiF”: - Natalia Alekseevna, Stalin has millions of ruined lives of innocent people on his account. And when reading you, one may get the impression that you are justifying Stalin’s repressions. Is it so?

Natalia Narochnitskaya: “I’ll say right away that I’m not a Stalinist.” My father’s only brother died in 1937, and my father was long listed as the brother of an enemy of the people. Moreover, I consider the Bolshevik revolution a tragedy on a universal scale and would prefer to see our history without it, without Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. But there are facts. In the religious wars between Protestants and Catholics, almost a third of the population of Central Europe was exterminated under the slogan “Kill them all!” The Lord himself will then sort out the strangers and his own.”

Article on the topic Revolutionary, tyrant and puritan.
11 facts from the life of Oliver Cromwell Both in the dictatorship of Cromwell during the years of the English Revolution, and in the revolutionary terror of the heralds of freedom, equality and brotherhood Robespierre and Danton , who invented the guillotine, in terms of per capita of the then population, much more was killed than in the Stalinist USSR.
In the Vendée alone in 1793, 250 thousand people were killed, including children, and some historians count 400 thousand victims - this is 25 million of the then population of France! But for some reason in the West they prefer not to remember these “exploits” of their predecessors, mainly demonizing the Stalinist regime. It is unlikely only because Stalin, unlike Cromwell, lived not so long ago.

The Bolsheviks proceeded from the fact that there was no need to even seek blame for the revolution from the hostile class, because a person is not free in his actions, being a product of social conditions. We just need to calculate how many representatives of the counter-revolutionary classes are subject to extermination as an obstacle to the revolution. Against this background, prosecutor Vyshinsky looks simply like a model of legality.

— Natalia Narochnitskaya

— What, in your opinion, is the reason that they are silent about Lenin?

— Even during perestroika, I felt a substitution: its ideological gurus, acting under the flag of anti-communism, somehow very consistently spared the orthodox Bolsheviks and fiery maximalist revolutionaries. They were silent about the terror of the Leninist guard, which was still unknown to society in the 1980s, because they would have to rehabilitate the object of their crimes - “one and indivisible” Russia, and it is precisely alien to all the most ardent Westerners who hate Stalin, but not Lenin and Trotsky.

My father, who during the years of the revolution and civil war was a high school student aged 11-16, told me that Lenin’s time was even more terrible than Stalin’s time. Every night, either a high school student, or an engineer, or a whole family was taken out of the neighboring houses; shots outside the city did not subside. From the Red Terror in 1922-1924. Many more people died without trial or investigation than in Stalin’s camps. The Bolsheviks proceeded from the fact that there was no need to even seek blame for the revolution from the hostile class, because a person is not free in his actions, being a product of social conditions. We just need to calculate how many representatives of the counter-revolutionary classes are subject to extermination as an obstacle to the revolution. Against this background, prosecutor Vyshinsky looks simply like a model of legality.

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Constructor of “enemies of the people”.
Fear and Loathing of Prosecutor Vyshinsky In fact, the “phenomenon of 1937” was, according to the criteria of repression, only the second act of the drama after the monstrous twenties, especially 1922-1924. But among the victims in the 30s were the destroyers of Russia themselves. “The revolution, like Saturn, devours its children” - the words of Anatole France about the French Revolution are fully confirmed by our history.
Remember the story “Children of the Arbat” - there the hero is not indignant at the repressions against the “White Guard, the true “enemies of the revolution.” He is perplexed: “The wrong ones are arrested, the wrong ones are shot”... And this is almost a reproduction of Trotsky’s thoughts. In a correspondence debate with the “victorious Stalinist line” published in Berlin, Trotsky flaunts: “All power is violence, not agreement.” Trotsky calls himself and the Leninist guard Jacobins - true revolutionaries, and the Stalinist period - the Thermidorian reaction, which began to curtail the French Revolution. “And we had such a big chapter, when we too... shot the White Guards and expelled the Girondins... None of us are afraid of executions... But you need to know who, under what chapter, to shoot. (Trotsky’s italics - N.N.) When we shot, we knew for sure which chapter.” Try to touch Trotsky and even Lenin in the circles of the left intelligentsia, you will be pecked. But Stalin was made the embodiment of universal evil of all times and peoples.

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This is in many ways the essence of post-perestroika ideology, whose idols did not at all intend to rehabilitate the Russia that we lost. They were and are distinguished by the depressing spirit of Smerdyakovism: “I hate all of Russia, sir!” The late Soviet cosmopolitan intellectual-nomenklatura elite turned out to be closest to the first Bolsheviks - of all generations of the Soviet elite. It was the ideologists of perestroika and the 90s who attacked not the evil of the revolution, not the repressive maxim directly embedded in it, but the Stalinist period - because they hated Stalin not so much for repressions as for his “great-power chauvinism,” although they did not admit this .

But, since you accept and even approve of the destruction of historical Russia by the Bolsheviks, who seized power that had fallen from the helpless hands of the then liberals, who had already led Russia to disintegration and collapse, then please come to terms with the repressive principle, which is an inevitable part of the revolutionary doctrine. All revolutions always go through a period of repression. And Stalin in them is no worse than Lenin, Trotsky and K.

The fact is that Stalin was completely free from admiration for Western history and saw through all the plans of his Western partners and knew how to beat them. Therefore, in the West, he is demonized not for repression, where he was not the first, but for creating a new great power in the place of trampled Russia, turning the country into a geopolitical force equal in size to the entire West, an obstacle in its path.

— Natalia Narochnitskaya

— You once said: “For some reason, Lenin is always spared for the destruction of the great empire, of which, by the way, the Baltic states were an undisputed part. This means that the problem is not repression as such.” But under Lenin, the country, although it lost territory, survived and did not disintegrate, and then it was the communist project that began to conquer the world and successfully resist its geopolitical competitors. That is, Lenin is also “to blame” for the fact that the West subsequently broke its teeth on Russia. And foreign intervention after the revolution failed, if I’m not mistaken, also under Lenin.

— The thesis that the “whites” were ready to trade territories, and the reds proclaimed the defense of the socialist fatherland, became a cliché of Soviet historiography. But it was the other way around. In 1919, when the Civil War was going on, the unofficial Soviet ambassador Litvinov, who met secretly in Stockholm, proposed the annexation of territories, in particular the Baltic states, and in return the withdrawal of Entente troops from Arkhangelsk in order to leave the Whites without help at the mercy of the Reds. The Bolsheviks, “for the sake of preserving the citadel of the revolution,” as Chicherin wrote, “gave Latgale to Latvia, whose population did not want this,” gave Karabakh, “the original Armenian land” (also Chicherin’s words), to the Azerbaijanis, because the Bolsheviks won in Baku, and the nationalists in Armenia Dashnaks. All white structures flatly refused to come to the conference planned by Lloyd George on the Princes' Islands, so as not to legitimize the collapse of Russia, because all the self-proclaimed parts were invited there - Menshevik Georgia, the Central Rada and others. The Bolsheviks readily agreed.

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I think that against the backdrop of obvious reverence for Lenin, the special hatred of the West and our Westerners towards Stalin is not at all explained by his contribution to the atrocities, which, of course, took place. The fact is that Stalin was completely free from admiration for Western history and saw through all the plans of his Western partners and knew how to beat them. Therefore, in the West, he is demonized not for repression, where he was not the first, but for creating a new great power in the place of trampled Russia, turning the country into a geopolitical force equal in size to the entire West, an obstacle in its path.

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The debunking of the cult of personality was not started by Khrushchev. Let us remember the essence of Khrushchev’s of the “cult” of Stalin: it suited the long-term interests of the West.
Of the entire period of mass repressions (1920s - early 1950s), only “1937”, “the cult of Stalin” and “Stalinism” were made the only symbol of horror in the minds of Soviet people. Such a half-truth, which is more dangerous than a lie, has already made it possible in our days to link with terror and morally devalue the restoration of state foundations (even the memory of the war), and not the essence of what was done to Russia. — But Russian President Boris Yeltsin, speaking before the US Congress in the early 1990s, spoke about the USSR this way: “The communist idol, which sowed social discord, hostility and unparalleled cruelty everywhere on Earth, instilled fear in the human community...”

— I regard the destruction of the USSR as a crime and want to protect Soviet history from desecration. For some reason, we believe that if a person calls for respect for Soviet history, then he must also glorify the revolution. But the USSR of my generation was not the pure implementation of the Bolshevik plan; its ideology changed quite seriously! Millions of Soviet people are not the descendants of ardent subversive revolutionaries, they are the descendants of those who joined the party in the trenches of Stalingrad. They had nothing in common with the fiery Bolsheviks who were plotting a worldwide revolution in Geneva cafes. Ordinary Russian people, yesterday's peasants, combined communist ideals with the desire to create on their land, and not with the idea of ​​​​worldwide destruction. They loved, created, were faithful to their family and Fatherland, worked not for fear, but for conscience, rushed into a burning house to save their neighbor. Finally, with an unprecedented feat of self-sacrifice, they repelled Hitler’s aggression and defeated fascism, “with their blood redeeming Europe’s freedom, honor and peace.” And after the war, the titanic labor of the people created a colossal potential, which was so thoughtlessly and criminally wasted in the 1990s.

Our Victory restored in the place of great Russia a force capable of restraining the aspirations of anyone who would want to make the world unipolar. This, in turn, predetermined the subsequent “cold” opposition to its results. Today, non-communist Russia is experiencing ever-increasing geopolitical pressure.

— Natalia Narochnitskaya

- Based on this logic, Hitler is a criminal because he carried out genocide in foreign countries, and Pol Pot and Stalin destroyed their own people - and this is an internal historical process. It turns out that there is a discrepancy in that one is called a criminal, while in relation to others we allow this. Why is that?

— The answer to this question is connected with the redivision of the world that is developing before our eyes after the collapse of the USSR. The justification for a shameless attack on Russia’s positions is not simply a belittlement of our Victory, but a distortion of the very meaning of the Second World War, its results. New generations are taught that the bloody struggle was not for the historical existence of peoples, but for the triumph of “American democracy.” Ideas about the identity of Hitler's Reich and Stalin's USSR, about the war as a battle between two totalitarianisms competing for world domination, are being introduced into the public consciousness. In this logic, the Yalta-Potsdam system should have been declared first as a relic of an outdated balance of power policy, and then as a temporary result of the struggle against two totalitarian regimes: the West was forced to temporarily come to terms with one of them in order to first defeat the other, and then weaken and destroy for half a century former ally.

But the most important result of Yalta and Potsdam was the restoration of the actual succession of the USSR in relation to the geopolitical area of ​​the Russian Empire, combined with newfound military power and international influence. Our Victory restored in the place of great Russia a force capable of restraining the aspirations of anyone who would want to make the world unipolar. This, in turn, predetermined the subsequent “cold” opposition to its results. Today, non-communist Russia is experiencing ever-increasing geopolitical pressure.

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1. https://narochnitskaia.ru/in-archive/politiki-vne-politiki-br-natalya-narochnitskaya-ya-rosla-v-bashne-iz-slonovoy-kosti.html POLITICIANS OUTSIDE POLITICS/ NATALIA NAROCHNITSKAYA: “I GREW UP IN IVORY TOWER..."
2. The Great Victory is beyond falsification 0:23 06/19/2013 Elena Studneva, columnist for the magazine “International Life” https://interaffairs.ru/read.php?item=9678
3. https://www.fiip.ru/news/327262/International scientific conference in Yalta.
4. https://narotchnitskaya.com/news/nataliya-narochnitskaya-voshla-v-sostav-obshhestvennoy-palatyi-rossii.html NATALIA NAROCHNITSKAYA JOINED THE PUBLIC CHAMBER OF RUSSIA.
5. https://file-rf.ru/context/2907 Twenty years later.
6. Russian Federation today. No. 05 2015.

Natalia Narochnitskaya: “Well, the French no longer believe that the Russians are to blame for everything”

– Natalia Alekseevna, you recently visited the Saint-Nazaire shipyard, where, according to a contract concluded in 2011, two Mistral helicopter carriers are being built for Russia. Passions are raging around this contract today, as well as around Western anti-Russian sanctions in general. Please tell us about your impressions.

– Yes, it was an unforgettable experience! My sister Ekaterina Alekseevna Narochnitskaya and I, the head of the Perspectives portal. Info,” we were in France, meeting with people, and suddenly our friends, patriots of both France and Russia, Gilles and Nadia Remy, called and invited us to Saint-Nazaire to meet with the captain of the Mistral! This opportunity took our breath away, and, quickly changing all plans, finding a small hotel in Brittany on the Internet, we drove to Saint-Nazaire by car! The Gilles CIFAL group is involved in the project, and through it they even provided translators for the crew of our sailors who arrived in France to master these helicopter carriers. How our friends worry with us about the fate of the Mistrals! How outraged they are by the sanctions! Gilles wanted to please the translators - there are many of them, and in purely Russian, he took everyone on a bus to the shore of a small creek and gave us a holiday.

The ship "Vladivostok" is, of course, an unforgettable sight: from the photo it is difficult to imagine how huge it is. We talked with our sailors who freely approach the fence and are ready to talk with people. Every day they have a formation, and people come to look at the spectacle. Sailors of different ages from all over Russia, good-natured and calm, admitted that they missed their wives and their beloved girls! By the way, in the town that grew up around the shipyard and is completely dependent on its work and success, they were somewhat nervously awaiting the invasion of Russian sailors (according to media reports, 200 people arrived there), because here they know how American sailors behave when they are laid off: they drink , make noise, “relax”, without hesitation, in a word. So, ours turned out to be exemplary: polite, neat, modest, on leave - they will go into a store only for a bottle of wine or beer, for some French pie, or sit in a cafe.

Of course, we weren’t allowed on the ship itself; it’s a military facility. Even just to get into that zone on the shore, you need to show your passports, the details of which are copied. I took several amateur photos.

And what an impression of our captain Andrei Saloshin! He is about 40 years old, he grew up in Sevastopol, where his parents served, but later he served in other fleets. I communicate a lot with the military, and have always noted the special polish of naval officers! Perhaps they are the most restrained and gallant; they have some kind of officer’s knightly spirit. They are elegant, trousers are always pressed. I remember in the early 90s I fought for “Russian Sevastopol”, participated in the work of the Supreme Council Commission to determine the status of the city of Sevastopol, published fiery articles in the newspaper “Evening Sevastopol” and more than once entered the office of the Supreme Council, where Sevastopol sailors and even Admiral Igor Kasatonov himself! How they all stand up, stretch out, greet, even kiss your hand! Well, just like in the old Officers' Meeting!

We talked for a long time, had dinner with the captain and his subordinate and our French friends. The captain skillfully and restrainedly answered questions, you won’t even notice how deftly he avoided closed topics - the highest diplomatic aerobatics! He, in my opinion, a still young captain of the 1st rank, will be entrusted with bringing this ship to us safe and sound. On September 13, a message was received that the Vladivostok had entered sea trials...

And the second helicopter carrier, as you know, is called “Sevastopol”. The name was taken two years ago, when no one foresaw the subsequent events. Now this sounds symbolic and could probably become an additional obstacle to transferring it to Russia.

– How do the French themselves in Saint-Nazaire feel about this issue?

– Of course, everyone in the city itself understands (and the mayor of the city is literally in awe) that for the French economy, breaking this contract would be a colossal blow, for the industry - a disaster, and for the city and the shipyard just complete ruin. They survived the crisis thanks to this order. Businessmen in the industry talk about possible huge reputational costs. After all, France occupies one of the leading places in the implementation of military orders and arms exports. What will potential customers (for example, India) think if, due to the general political situation, such a contract may not be fulfilled, and only because someone is pushing from overseas... So in Saint-Nazaire everyone is openly talking about this. Although pro-Maidan activists periodically come to the town from other places and picket. The press also writes about a large penalty, in addition to the return of the money paid, and if Russia later goes to arbitration court (and we have every right and this usually happens), even additional huge fines will follow, the total amount could be more than 3 billion!!! The shipyard will go bankrupt, and thousands of people there and throughout France, in the enterprises of related elements, will lose their jobs.

After Hollande's clumsy statement, very unpleasant signals were sent from the trade unions, and he realized that he could lose the last support himself and greatly undermine the position of the socialists. And his and his party’s ratings are already shamefully low.

– And yet, what is the opinion: will the Mistrals be delivered or not?

“Now they are writing that these passions are subsiding, that President Hollande had to say something to the Americans before the NATO summit, and he said it, and then even the official Elysee Palace interpreted this as some kind of his personal opinion. Trade unions immediately reared up, and, of course, the business community was categorically against it. As for conservatives, neo-Gaullists, they are completely against sanctions and against the policies of Brussels, in favor of normalizing relations with Russia. But we know how the authorities can twist their arms, how various levers of pressure are used from overseas and through NATO.