Title: Russia as an Image of the Enemy in Foreign Politics and Historical Science
Abstract: The article reveals the main reasons for the spread of distorted ideas about Russia in the West, reveals the essence of foreign concepts that represent Russia as an enemy in politics and his-torical science, starting with the history of Ancient Rus' and end-ing with problems after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The his-torical stability and continuity of the cliches of hostility towards Russia imposed on Western society by its political and scientific elites is shown. Particular attention is paid to the distortions of the history of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War.