First fakes about Russian military made by US in 1945
The Federal Security Service of Russia has published an archival document indicating that the United States began to produce the first fakes about Russian soldiers’ actions back in 1945, TASS reports
The Archival Materials section of the Federal Security Service website now features a strictly confidential internal report of Smersh Head, Viktor Abakumov – as of December 19th – in the name of the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Vyacheslav Molotov, about the special agents’ information that the American military mission in Budapest received secret instructions to collect and document facts about the so-called Russians atrocities in Hungary in order to discredit the Soviet troops.
"At the end of November this year (1945 – TASS remark), the military mission – through the head of the Budapest representative office of America’s Metro film trust (Metro Goldwyn Mayer – TASS remark) – made a film in one of the villages near Budapest, in which allegedly the Russians set fire to a house and mistreated woman," the report reads. A cameraman went to the village in a company of American soldiers, and the film was taken out by plane the next day.
In the explanation to the published document it is recalled that information attacks on Russia with the spread of defamatory and untrue (fake) information are used to be associated with Hitler's propaganda head Goebbels. "After WWII, anti-Soviet (after the USSR collapse, they were transformed into anti-Russian) centres in the United States and Western Europe became his followers who did not disdain the most perverted lies,” the explanation says. The archival document indicates that, back in 1945, when the enthusiasm related to the victory over Nazi Germany had not cooled down in the liberated world, and Churchill had not yet delivered his speech in Fulton, the United States – the USSR ally in the anti-Hitler coalition – was already engaged in purposeful creation of anti-Soviet information fakes.
"It is obvious that even then, upon instructions of the American special services, film industry professionals invented and distributed fake stories about houses burned by liberator-soldiers and the affected civilian population – which is the usual content of modern TV reports of the western media," a comment to the published document reads.
