Today we will tell about who MarkCorned beef. The book of the author, as well as his biography will be discussed below. He was born in 1958, May 29, in Kuibyshev. We are talking about the 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. A writer by education is an aeronautical design engineer. Currently, the work of Corned beef is not too often cited in scientific journals. The opinions of academic historians regarding his work vary from positive to sharply negative. The latter sometimes include direct allegations of fraud and lies.
Biography
Mark Solonin finished school in 1975Got a gold medal. Entered the local aviation institute named after SP Korolev. After graduation he worked in the OKB. In 1987, he began working in the boiler room as a stoker. He was the organizer of social and political clubs in Kuibyshev during the Perestroika. From the mid-1980s, he began working towards the theme of the Great Patriotic War. The author's books have been published in Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia, Estonia, Poland, Ukraine and Russia. In 2010, he signed an appeal from the Russian opposition "Putin must leave." In 2011, he took part as co-author of the script and actor in the documentary film “June 22” by A. Pivovarov. The writer participated in the “Price of Victory” program many times. On Radio Liberty, he had 5 big interviews. Constantly published on the villages of the weekly "Military-Industrial Courier". In 2009, he was denied access to the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2009 to 2010 he was invited to scientific and historical conferences in Vilnius and Tallinn. He has given lectures at universities in these cities, as well as in Washington, Boston, Bratislava and Kaunas. However, nothing is known about the reviews devoted to the writer's works on the pages of scientific journals in the USA and Europe.
Historical works
Mark Solonin argues that Soviet aviationThe quality corresponded to the Luftwaffe and repeatedly outnumbered the forces of the enemy. According to him, the tanks of the USSR had multiple qualitative and quantitative superiority. The writer claims that the Red Army was not inferior to the enemy in terms of equipment of the Red Army and the artillery.
Version of events in 1941
Mark Solonin reviewed the reasons for the failuresRed Army in the first stage of the war. The writer expresses the opinion that the whole thing is in the full-scale collapse of the armed forces, which was expressed in the mass surrender of soldiers in captivity and desertion. The author speaks of a sharp negative attitude of the main part of the population of the country to the new Soviet power, because it deceived the people and did not comply with the slogans. The 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-threatening and mortally frightened people. They were afraid to take any initiative, becoming gears in a chain between Stalin and the troops.
The next reason for the reluctance to fight the writerconsiders the inconsistent foreign policy of the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1941. After all, Hitler was both the closest ally and the “warmonger of war”. 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, which caused the enemy considerable damage in the first few days of the war. The author of the main reasons for the change calls the policy of Hitler, which was expressed in the rejection of the idea of anti-Bolshevik Russian army. In addition, a terrible attitude towards the prisoners played a role.
Books
Mark Solonin in 2004 wrote a work"Barrel and hoops." In 2006, the book "Peacefully sleeping airfields." In 2007, the work "June 22" appears. In 2007, the sequel is published. In 2008, the next part, June 25, is published. In the same year, the work "Brainess" appears. In 2009, the book "The rout of 1941" is published. The next work appears "USSR - Finland." A collection of articles titled "No good in war" is published in 2010. In 2011, the work "Three Plans of Comrade Stalin." Next comes the book "New chronology of disaster." After it, the sequel is published. In 2012, the work "Datura-grass". In 2013, the book “June 41st. The final diagnosis.
Plots
In the book "June 22" the author expresses his opinionat the beginning of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. The writer refutes the well-established idea of the reasons for the failures of the Red Army. Expresses his interpretation of military events. The writer pays primary attention to the "human factor". We will now discuss in more detail another book that Mark Solonin also wrote. The “final diagnosis” is a work that narrates the author’s view of the scale of the catastrophe that occurred in 1941. The writer expresses his opinion on the ratio of casualties between Soviet German soldiers.
