The silence concerning the role of the USSR in the WW2: ethical issues

[buritobr]

Sometimes, when the West tells the history of the WW2, it looks like that the USA and the UK had the most important role in defeating Nazi Germany. According to this "history", the normandy landings were the most decisive event in the WW2.
However, this is not the true history. Altough the french, italian, north african and atlantic fronts were very important, more than 70% of the human and material losses of the Wehrmacht took place in the Eastern European front. When the normandy landings happened, the Germans were already defeated in the Soviet territory and the front line was moving to lands that were controlled by Germany until June 1941.
Some people think that it is fair to hide the role of the USSR in the WW2 because it is necessary to celebrate the fight for democracy and liberty, and remembering the Eastern European front means celebrating the victory against a tyranny glorifying another tyranny. But I don't agree with this way of thinking. Rewriting the history according to political goals was a very usual habit in the ... USSR! In that country, the stalinist regime removed Trotsky from the pictures of the revolution, many years before the Photoshop. If you criticize a regime by imitating its practices, the criticism become less valid.

So, I don't think it is ethical to rewrite the history according to political goals. Not only the history of the WW2, but all the events in the history.

[buritobr]

Hollywood is not the problem. It is very normal that a film industry produces pictures about its own country. If the Russians are not competent to sell their pictures abroad (like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9tO7GF8pnY ), this is a problem of the Russians.

The problem is the media which in every year with a 4 in the end publish articles related to the X0 years of the normandy landing as the "most important event of the WWII". It is OK to show big articles about the normandy landing. It is OK to put more emphasis in the normandy landing than in the battles in the Eastern front because of the nationality of the newspaper/magazine. But it is not OK to say that it was "the most important event of the WWII" because it was not.