European Policy of Historical Memory Deformation as a Path to Revanchism and Sociopolitical Regression

This article deals with the phenomenon of historical memory deformation in European political class and mainstream media over the past 35 years, namely since the beginning of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and the reunification of Germany. On the basis of the theoretical principles of major scholars – Halbwachs, Adorno, – as well as on the basis of practical calculations, the author derives the thesis about the deep deformation of historical memory in Europe, as well as about the selectivity in its application. Ignoring the genocide of Russian population in Donbass, Serbian population in Bosnia, Krajina and Slavonia, Western politicians nevertheless accuse Russia and Serbia of violating democracy, genocide, imperial ambitions and so on. The author concludes that the creeping militarization and fascistization of the liberal-democratic model in Europe may lead to the construction of a kind of dictatorship model, which he calls democracy – an outwardly democratic construct with a very strictly totalitarian content. Deformation of historical memory is an element of its informational and ideological content. In fact, this trend represents a pronounced process of socio-political regression.