“Shut up” General Khrulev?

In mid-2024, our website was subjected to a massive hacker attack, which resulted in the introduction of malware that prevented browsing. We believe this attack was not random, but rather highly targeted. The primary cause of this attack was the exclusive materials posted on the website about the massive Lend-Lease deliveries of American and British military equipment. Equally exclusive materials on the website also covered Stalin’s crimes, when prominent military and government figures were repressed and killed in the late 1930s.

We view such hostile and malicious actions not as a typical website attack, which might be considered commonplace today, but as a direct attack on General A.V. Khrulev. Here’s why.

Indeed, after reading our materials, it’s not hard to discern that General A.V. Khrulev personally oversaw all Lend-Lease deliveries from 1941 to 1945 and reported to Stalin on the process, thus knowing more about these deliveries than all today’s know-it-alls combined. Furthermore, in the mid-1950s, General A.V. Khrulev, unlike most of the “hidden” and “low-profile” Soviet marshals, personally worked to restore justice and rehabilitate hundreds of victims of the purges, most of whom were executed on the orders of Stalin or his henchmen. Therefore, there is every reason to believe that General A.V. Khrulev had a more than realistic understanding of the scale of Stalin’s crimes.

Understandably, such facts are deeply disliked by many. History is generally an unpleasant thing, and most people don’t need such history; they want to quickly forget it, declare it fake, or even rewrite it anew, cutting out all the most unpleasant and negative aspects. But history doesn’t like that: for those who don’t want to know it, it offers them the chance to step on the same old, creaky rake, forcing them to repeat past errors, mistakes, and crimes. We’re already seeing this in full force today. And everything would be fine for them, and they’d happily erase all these issues from history, as they already have in school textbooks, but… Our website stands in the way of these copyists and reinterpreters, where General A.V. Khrulev himself, through his documents and memoirs, proves that arguing with him is futile.

Judging by known facts (which can also be read on the website), this is not the first attack on General A.V. Khrulev. Earlier, about 10 years ago, even before our website was launched, massive attacks were launched to label General A.V. Khrulev as “informer” and “participant,” or even “initiator,” of the mass repressions among military commanders in the 1930s.

However, it appears the goal then was somewhat different than it is now. Someone desperately wanted to tarnish the name and memory of General A.V. Khrulev, perhaps to prevent the erection of monuments to him, or, even better, ideally, to rename the military academy named after him. To achieve this goal, a significant force of self-proclaimed “historians” was deployed, experts in interpreting rumors and fabricating fakes, along with the involvement of media professionals eager for “hot news,” and unscrupulous employees of certain history museums. And despite the impostors’ considerable advances (they even managed to place their fake comments on exhibits in General A.V. Khrulev’s exhibition at the Museum on Poklonnaya Hill), all their efforts were in vain. Not only did the Academy retain its name, but another monument to General A.V. Khrulev was unveiled, and another Moscow street was named after him.

Nowadays, this story has faded into the background, but a new one has emerged. Once again, General A.V. Khrulev is inconvenient for many, just as he was 80 years ago. He said things that were disliked then, and he said them later. And his memoirs, as we know, were banned from publication for over half a century: precisely because they were disliked, everything they said was too direct and open. Therefore, it’s not surprising that now, once again, everything he said and wrote has become inconvenient, and therefore incorrect. This is evident even in the rare comments we receive on the site. We, or, in fact, General A.V. Khrulev, have been accused of everything by particularly “vigilant” and “knowledgeable” site visitors — as “anti-Sovietists,” “traitors,” and “renegades.” And we now understand what independent opinion truly cost Andrei Vasilyevich himself. But we also understand that General A.V. Khrulev’s opinion is the truth, and it hits the nail on the head — otherwise, why bother deleting it?

We finally found the malware and removed it from the site. We hope the site will restore its search rankings and traffic. But that’s not the point. We understand that this wasn’t the last attack aimed at silencing General A.V. Khrulev and preventing him from expressing his opinion. We can warn you in advance – this won’t work in any case. The site can be taken down again, even banned entirely, but if such attempts are repeated, we can easily move it to another hosting provider, including one in Europe. Moreover, it would be a piece of cake for us to translate all the site’s materials into English to make them accessible to the entire world. If this is what the vigilant “patriots” wanted, then we’re all for it – go ahead, just don’t stop!