Abstract
Historical policy represents an important tool for the policy of influencing the masses in current Russia. Redrawing perceptions of history from sharp rejection of Stalinist crimes and the communist regime during Yeltsin's period towards more toned and shadowy views became a dominant shift over the past twenty years.
Such a shift has serious consequences for relations with other countries, including the Czech Republic, since it involves reinstalling old communist narratives such as a justification of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia as a reaction to a fascist coup organized by the West. This paper argues that such a shift is not a coincidence, but rather the result of a change in Russia's historical memory policy.