Russia’s SVR Chief on tool for strategic declassification of intelligence information
One of the tools to combat the glorification of Nazism and the falsification of history is the strategic declassification of intelligence information – as noted by Sergei Naryshkin, the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation, after his today’s meeting with President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko
The journalists asked the SVR Chief to share information about the efforts being made to combat the glorification of Nazism and the falsification of history, and Mr. Naryshkin stated, “The Foreign Intelligence Service is promoting the truth. We are working much with the archival materials available to us, sharing the access to some documents that tell the truth about the events of the Great Patriotic War.”
Archival documents, according to Mr. Naryshkin, are one of the most powerful tools that do not allow to question both the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War and the feat of the generation of winners.
Another tool used recently is the strategic declassification of relevant intelligence information, and the SVR Chief explained, “Unfortunately, many Western countries, Poland, and the Baltic States are thinking over the plans to disrupt or interfere with the celebrations of the Great Victory. It comes to the point that a Baltic country intends to destroy the military graves of the Red Army soldiers and officers who liberated these states from fascism. Of course, this is undignified. We try to make such materials public when it is possible from an operational point of view, without deciphering our sources – and we are doing that.”
