# Mark Solonin

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{{short description|Russian historian and author (born 1958)}}

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| native_name      =Марк Семенович Солонин 
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'''Mark Solonin''' (born May 29, 1958, in [Kuybyshev](/source/Samara%2C_Russia), [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union)) is a [Russian](/source/Russians) historian and author of numerous books on the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/creative-unions-seen-to-back-kremlin-views/498978.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428100718/http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/creative-unions-seen-to-back-kremlin-views/498978.html|archive-date=2014-04-28|title=Creative Unions Seen to Back Kremlin Views|agency=Moscow Times|author=Oleg Sukhov|date=27 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/32948/#.U17wm1fvgqM |title=May 9 Victory Day |publisher=Baltictimes.com |date=15 May 2013 |access-date=5 February 2015}}</ref> An [aviation engineer](/source/aviation_engineering) by training, he has lived since 2016 in [Estonia](/source/Estonia).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.solonin.org/biography|title = Марк Солонин - персональный сайт историка. Биография}}</ref> In 2019 he relocated to [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-_U6lE00bo |title=Мифы Второй мировой войны. Марк Солонин, Пётр Чернышов, CEO Club, YouTube. |access-date=2022-04-21 |archive-date=2021-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904103314/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-_U6lE00bo |url-status=live}}</ref> Since 2022 he lives in [Kyiv](/source/Kyiv).<ref>[https://newizv.ru/news/society/13-02-2022/mark-solonin-vtorzheniya-v-ukrainu-ne-budet-ni-vchera-ni-segodnya-ni-zavtra Марк Солонин: «Вторжения в Украину не будет — ни вчера, ни сегодня, ни завтра»] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310132700/https://newizv.ru/news/society/13-02-2022/mark-solonin-vtorzheniya-v-ukrainu-ne-budet-ni-vchera-ni-segodnya-ni-zavtra}} // [Новые известия](/source/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F), 12.02.2022</ref><ref>[https://www.vesty.co.il/main/article/hji00pdrjc «Шабат шалом, вторжения не будет»: Марк Солонин о ситуации вокруг Украины] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212195614/https://www.vesty.co.il/main/article/hji00pdrjc}} // [vesty.co.il](/source/vesty.co.il), 12.02.2022</ref>

==Early life==
Mark Semionovich Solonin ({{langx|ru|Марк Семёнович Солонин}}) was born in Kuybyshev, Soviet Union, on May 29, 1958. With a father who had served with the [Soviet Army](/source/Soviet_Army) in the Second World War, he developed strong interest in history as a boy. After graduating from secondary school with a golden medal (''[cum laude](/source/cum_laude)''), he decided to study not history but [aviation engineering](/source/aviation_engineering) to avoid [Soviet politics](/source/Soviet_politics) from interfering with his potential career in history.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.solonin.org/en/biography|title = Mark Solonin. Historian's personal webpage.Biography}}</ref>

==Career==
Solonin's studies focus on the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War), particularly the opening weeks of the [Soviet-German War](/source/Soviet-German_War).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8212451.stm|title=Pact that set the scene for war|date=21 August 2009}}.</ref> Solonin wrote several books outlining [theory of the USSR planning to attack Germany first in 1941](/source/Soviet_offensive_plans_controversy). 

Solonin criticized the new [Russian Minister of Culture](/source/Ministry_of_Culture_(Russia)) and historian [Vladimir Medinsky](/source/Vladimir_Medinsky) as "a propagandist of the shameless [Goebbels](/source/Joseph_Goebbels) variety".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-profile-culture-minister-vladimir-medinsky/24602133.html|title=Profile: Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's Controversial New Culture Minister|work=[RFE/RL](/source/RFE%2FRL)|date=3 June 2012|access-date=16 February 2015}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

* {{cite book |last=Solonin|first=Mark|date= 2006|title=На мирно спящих аэродромах |trans-title=At The Sleeping Airfields|language=ru |location=Moscow |publisher=Eksmo|isbn=5-699-15695-X}}
* {{cite book |last=Solonin|first=Mark|date=2007|title=23 июня: "День М|trans-title=June 23: M-Day|language=ru |location=Moscow |publisher=Eksmo|isbn=978-5-699-22304-6}}
* {{cite book |last=Solonin|first=Mark|date=2008|title=25 июня. Глупость или агрессия?|trans-title=June 25: Foolishness or Aggression?|language=ru |location=Moscow |publisher=Eksmo|isbn=978-5-699-25300-5}}
* {{cite book |last=Solonin|first=Mark|date=2008|title=Мозгоимение: Фальшивая история Великой войны|trans-title=The Fake History of the Great War|language=ru |location=Moscow |publisher=Eksmo|isbn=978-5-699-28327-9}}
* {{cite book |last=Solonin|first=Mark|date=2008|title=22 июня. Анатомия катастрофы|trans-title=June 22. Anatomy of Catastrophe|language=ru |location=Moscow |publisher=Eksmo|isbn=978-5-699-30295-6}}
* {{cite book |last=Solonin|first=Mark|date=2011|title=Новая хронология катастрофы|trans-title=A New Chronology Of The 1941 Invasion|language=ru |location=Moscow |publisher=Eksmo|isbn=978-5-699-51036-8}}
* {{cite book |last=Solonin|first=Mark|date=2013|title=Июнь 41-го. Окончательный диагноз|trans-title=June 1941: The Final Diagnosis|language=ru |location=Moscow |publisher=Eksmo|isbn=978-5-699-67335-3}}
* Solonin, Mark (2021), ''Spring Victory: Stalin's Glossed Over Crime'', (in English), Independently Published/Amazon, {{ISBN|979-8519589222}}
* Solonin, Mark (2021), ''Two Essays: Coming Up From Behind or How the Soviet Union Won the War and If World Domination is the Aim then Strike First!'', (in English), Independently Published/Amazon, {{ISBN|979-8494370945}}
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==See also==
* [Soviet offensive plans controversy](/source/Soviet_offensive_plans_controversy)
* [Battle of Białystok–Minsk](/source/Battle_of_Bia%C5%82ystok%E2%80%93Minsk)
* [Operation Barbarossa](/source/Operation_Barbarossa)

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.solonin.org/ Web page of Mark Solonin]
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChLpUGaZO35ICTltBP50VSg YouTube channel of Mark Solonin]

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