Mark Solonin: biography and creativity

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Today we will talk about who Mark Solonin is. The author's books, as well as his biography, will be discussed below. He was born in 1958, May 29, in Kuibyshev. We are talking about a Russian writer, publicist, author of articles and books that belong to the genre of historical revisionism. His works are devoted to the Great Patriotic War, in particular, its initial period. By education, the writer is an aviation design engineer. Currently, Solonin's work is not often cited in scientific publications. Opinions of academic historians regarding his work range from positive to strongly negative. The latter sometimes include outright accusations of falsification and lies.

Biography

Mark Solonin finished school in 1975. Received a gold medal. He entered the local aviation institute named after S. P. Korolev. After graduation, he worked in the OKB. In 1987, he began to work as a stoker in a boiler room. He was the organizer of social and political clubs inKuibyshev during Perestroika. Since the mid-1980s, he began to work in the direction of the theme of the Great Patriotic War. The author's books have been published in Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia, Estonia, Poland, Ukraine and Russia. In 2010, he signed the appeal of the opposition of the Russian Federation "Putin must go." In 2011, he took part as a co-author of the script and a character in the documentary television film "June 22" by A. Pivovarov. The writer repeatedly participated in the broadcast of the program "The Price of Victory". At the radio station "Freedom" he published 5 long interviews. Constantly published on the pages of the weekly "Military-Industrial Courier". In 2009, he was denied access to the archives of the Foreign Ministry. From 2009 to 2010 he was invited to scientific and historical conferences in Vilnius and Tallinn. He gave special lectures at the universities of these cities, as well as in Washington, Boston, Bratislava and Kaunas. However, nothing is known about reviews of the writer's work in scientific journals in the US and Europe.

Historical works

Mark Solonin claims that the quality of Soviet aviation corresponded to that of the Luftwaffe and greatly outnumbered the enemy forces. Tanks of the USSR, according to him, had multiple qualitative and quantitative superiority. The writer claims that the Red Army was not inferior to the enemy in terms of equipment with tractors and artillery.

1941 version of events

Mark Solonin reconsidered the reasons for the failures of the Red Army at the first stage of the war. The writer expresses the opinion that the whole thing is a full-scale collapsearmed forces, which was expressed in the mass surrender of soldiers in captivity and desertion. The author speaks about the sharp negative attitude of the main part of the country's population towards the new Soviet government, because it deceived the people and did not fulfill the slogans. Collective farmers were turned into a new kind of serfs. Holodomor and dispossession were arranged. According to the author, mass repressions in 1937-1938 turned most of the command personnel into life-long and mortally intimidated people. They were afraid to show any initiative, becoming gears in the chain between Stalin and the troops.

The writer considers the inconsistent foreign policy of the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1941 to be the next reason for the reluctance to fight. After all, Hitler was both the closest ally and a "warmonger". At the same time, the author argues that everything should not be reduced to elementary formulations. The writer cites a number of formations in the Red Army that inflicted significant damage on the enemy in the first few days of the war. The author calls the main reasons for the turning point Hitler's policy, which was expressed in the rejection of the idea of an anti-Bolshevik Russian army. In addition, the terrible attitude towards the prisoners played a role.

Books

Mark Solonin in 2004 wrote the work "Barrel and hoops". In 2006, the book "On peacefully sleeping airfields" was published. In 2007, the work "June 22" appears. A sequel was published in 2007. In 2008, the next part of "June 25" is published. In the same year, the work "Brain Name" appeared. In 2009, the book "The Defeat of 1941" was published. Appears nextwork "USSR - Finland". A collection of articles en titled "No Good in War" was published in 2010. In 2011, the work “Three Plans of Comrade Stalin” appears. The next book to be published is A New Chronology of the Catastrophe. After it, a sequel is published. In 2012, the work "Datura Grass" was published. In 2013, the book “June 41st. Final Diagnosis.”

Plots

In the book "June 22" the author expresses his view on the beginning of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. The writer refutes the established idea about the reasons for the failures of the Red Army. Expresses his interpretation of military events. The writer pays primary attention to the "human factor". Now we will discuss in more detail another book, which was also written by Mark Solonin. "The Final Diagnosis" is a work that tells about the author's view of the scale of the catastrophe that occurred in 1941. The writer expresses his opinion on the ratio of losses between the Soviet German soldiers.