Yeltsin Center - how history is distorted

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Open recently in Yekaterinburg the Yeltsin Center is one of the examples that our children are already being told a completely different story of our country.

Was with a colleague on a business trip to Yekaterinburg. There was a break between the meetings, which we decided to use to visit the recently opened Yeltsin Center.

The building is large and solid. The building itself and the interiors immediately show that they did not spare money. Nice modern design. But due to lack of time, we did not examine the entire building in detail, we walked at a fast pace only through the main historical exposition of the museum. In the museum itself, one can feel the "hand of a master". Material feed - Pure HollyWood. I do not exclude that, among other things, foreign specialists were involved, you know from which country. In fact, this is one of the clear examples of how real history is falsified. Moreover, very carefully, unobtrusively, by showing only a part of the truthful information, a completely different general perception of events is formed.

The general concept of the exposition is a labyrinth, which symbolizes the complex and winding path that Russia allegedly took towards gaining freedom. At the same time, of course, it is Boris Yeltsin who is meant to be the liberator of Russia. On one of the stands it says: "The founder of the new Russia, Boris Yeltsin." That is, if the "new Russia" was founded by Boris Yeltsin in 1990, then the country is only 25 years old, and you can forget about the entire centuries-old history of Russia, this is not about you, but about someone else.

On the first floor, we are told the "history" of the country until 1991, on the second from the putsch to the present. The story begins from the moment of the Tatar-Mongol yoke. From this moment, according to the authors of the exposition, the struggle of the inhabitants of Russia for their freedom begins. Moreover, this struggle was difficult, and at the same time life was bleak and hard. This is the general impression created by the exhibition on the ground floor. The twilight of the "labyrinth", faded old documents, old photographs, which mainly depict "hard work days", primitive household items of that period. At the same time, some truthful facts are presented, but they all tell about the same, about the hard struggle of the inhabitants of Russia for freedom. No bright colors, twilight and gray-yellow colors. The photographs are mostly black and white. Old posters and posters are faded in places. The work is not so much for the consciousness as for the subconscious and emotional perception.

Separately, we drew attention to the fact that one of the stands dedicated to the Great Patriotic War contains photographs of trucks of that period. Moreover, these cars are only American, supplied to our country by Lend-Lease. Below the photos are detailed specifications for each vehicle. There are no other photos of our Soviet cars or military equipment anymore. As a result, it seems that during the war in the USSR, only American cars were used.

In fact, the first floor tells the history of the USSR, into which the life story of Boris Yeltsin is woven from birth to mid-1991. But this is not at all the story that our generation still knows and remembers. And it is designed just for the next generations, who cannot remember and know this. They will be shown how hard and joyless life was in the USSR, so that they would not even have a shadow of doubt that the USSR needed to be destroyed.

The exposition of the second floor continues the concept of the labyrinth and is conventionally divided into “seven days”. The first day, of course, is August 19, 1991, the first day of the "putsch". Then we find ourselves in September 1993, when a coup d'etat was carried out with the execution of the "White House", where the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation was then located. Then the first Chechen war and the 1996 elections, heart surgery, and at the very end we find ourselves in an exact copy of Boris Yeltsin's office in the Kremlin, where his appeal to the country was recorded, in which he announced his resignation as president of the Russian Federation. The exposition itself was done very professionally and with high quality. Carefully selected exhibits and interiors that evoke a lot of memories of that time. But at the same time, they again tell us only the truth that is beneficial to those who created this museum, and they forget to say a lot of facts, without which the perception of those events turns out to be distorted.

Talking about the events of 1993, they forget to tell us about unknown snipers who fired at people from rooftops. We are not told that at the moment when Yeltsin gave the order to open fire on the building of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, he no longer had legitimate power, since he was impeached by the Supreme Soviet. Therefore, Yeltsin remained president only because it was he who was recognized as the legitimate power by Western countries, the ruling elite of which turned a blind eye to the fact that Yeltsin and his team were breaking laws and seizing power by armed means. In 11 years, exactly the same thing will be repeated in Kiev.

Another interesting point is that the entire exposition does not say anything about the so-called "seven bankers" and their role in the modern history of Russia. They forget to tell us that only thanks to their support and their money, Yeltsin was able to win the 1996 elections. One gets the impression that neither Berezovsky, nor Gusinsky, nor Khodorkovsky have ever existed.

If this exposition is watched by a person who knows nothing about those events, for example, someone from the youth, then Yeltsin will appear before him almost as a saint or a superhero who single-handedly saved Russia and led her finally to the long-awaited kingdom of freedom, into which you find yourself leaving a copy of Yeltsin's office in the Kremlin. And once again I want to note the professionalism of those who made this exposition. After all the semi-gloomy cramped rooms with an oppressive atmosphere, you suddenly find yourself in a large, bright, spacious hall with large windows, between which on the columns there are large inscriptions in large letters "freedom", "freedom", "freedom", near which "freedom of religion" is deciphered in small print, “Freedom of assembly and organization”, “freedom of speech and opinion”, etc. The impression on immature minds makes a strong, there is no dispute.

But I repeat once again that this is not the real history of the USSR and Russia. This is exactly the version of events that a certain group of people, with the support of the "West", is trying to impose on others. And first of all to the younger generation.