“The condemnation of the USSR alongside Hitler’s Germany for genocide and provocation of the Second World War by the OSCE Assembly in a resolution in July 2009 was discussed in Chisinau after the screening of the documentary film “Could Stalin stop Hitler?” made by Russia’s First Channel, Info-Prim Neo reports. The documentary was shown on January 22 in the evening at the Chisinau-based library “M. Lomonosov”. The film describes the events in the interwar period and how Germany and Hitler prepared for the occupation of Europe in response to the denigrating punishment imposed on the Germans after signing the Treaty of Versailles. The documentary ends with a number of rhetorical questions to Europe over the resolution of the OSCE Assembly, which equates the Stalinist regime with the Nazi regime in July 2009. “It wasn’t the USSR that bombed France, the UK, Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands, Greece and other countries. Not the USSR, but Germany occupied Europe. Not the USSR, but Germany set up concentration camps all over Europe, where about 8 million people died. Where did this meaningless resolution come from? Maybe Europe is ashamed because it did not stop Hitler. Today Europe behaves as if Hitler’s occupation policy began on August 23, 1939, after the signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact,” it is said in the film. The documentary points to the absence of the great powers, France and the UK, in the actions aimed at stopping Hitler from conquering countries through the refusal to make an anti-Hitler coalition with the USSR. “Maybe they try to steal Russia’s great historical victory?” – this is the question with which the documentary ends. The Russian Ambassador in Moldova Valery Kuzimin, who was present at the discussions, said such meetings are a good occasion for exchanging opinions because the problems of that period keep its political topicality. Historian Piotr Shornikov tried to answer those questions. “Europe is never ashamed of anything. The shame is a prerogative of the Russian historians. Most of the discrediting materials collected concern the Russians. Stalin was a dictator, but who were Mussolini, Hitler, and even Churchill?” he asked. Veteran Eugen Dolgov considers that the young generations study in schools only the evil deeds of the USSR, but nobody tells that this country destroyed the fascism. “We won at a cost of 27 million victims of the Soviet people. The Russian hoisted the peace flag in Berlin. But the young people do not know much about this war because our ideological opponents manipulate them,” said Dolgov. In this connection, the director of the Russian high school “Dimitrie Cantemir” Alexandra Camynina said young people founded a club to study the history of the Second World War and attend it monthly. The event was organized by the Russian Science and Culture Center in Chisinau as part of the activities to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the victory in the Second World War marked in the CIS in 2010.