Moscow is intensifying campaigns to manipulate historical memory and to use pseudo-history as an instrument of pressure on neighboring countries. Such conclusions are provided by the Center for Countering Disinformation, and the information is corroborated by Ukrinform.
In particular, EUvsDisinfo analysts point to the 2025 400-page book “History of Lithuania” by the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a foreword by Sergei Lavrov. According to them, this work is yet another product of Kremlin propaganda intended to undermine the legitimacy of Lithuanian statehood and justify Russia’s aggressive conduct, notes the Center for Countering Disinformation.
This “academic study” is in fact yet another product of Kremlin propaganda, by which Russia is trying to undermine the very existence of Lithuanian statehood and justify its aggressive behavior, notes the Center for Countering Disinformation.
– Center for Countering Disinformation
Content and Consequences of Manipulations
The book omits Soviet crimes, asserts that Lithuania “never was independent,” that its occupation by the USSR was “beneficial,” and the restoration of independence in 1991 was “undemocratic.” Current Lithuanian politicians are depicted as “Russophobic radicals.”
The book omits Soviet crimes, asserts that Lithuania “never was independent,” that its occupation by the USSR was “beneficial,” and the restoration of independence in 1991 was “undemocratic.”
– Center for Countering Disinformation
Current Lithuanian politicians are depicted as “Russophobic radicals.”
– Center for Countering Disinformation
This book is one of the institute’s series of publications. Previously the same center released “History of Ukraine” with the same falsifications underlying Putin’s manifesto about “historic unity,” which the Kremlin used to justify its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Earlier the institute released “History of Ukraine” with the same falsifications that lie at the heart of Putin’s manifesto about “historic unity,” which the Kremlin used to justify its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
– Center for Countering Disinformation
The author of both books is Maxim Grigoriev. He is not a historian, but an active participant in Kremlin information operations against Ukraine.
Pseudo-historical publications are a tool of Moscow’s systematic policy. The Kremlin rewrites the past where reality does not meet its imperial ambitions, according to the Center for Countering Disinformation.
According to Ukrinform, Russian propaganda abroad is inextricably linked with the Kremlin’s security services.