Army of marauders: the long history of Russian military looting, pillaging, and stealing
[box title="" align="center"]Marauding represents a breakdown in military command and control where soldiers become uncontrollable and begin acting…
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Articles and News about World War II in Ukraine
Ukraine is a major battleground for understanding WWII: historian Serhii Plokhii
[editorial]A recent poll conducted by the Democratic Initiatives Fund reveals that on the 75th anniversary of WWII, Ukrainians…
Jewish survivors of Babi Yar Holocaust massacre recall events, reconstruct exact shooting location
The massacre committed by the Nazis and local collaborators in the Babi Yar ravine on 29-30 September 1941,…
The Soviet foundations of Russia’s Great Patriotic War myth
[box]The myth of the Great Patriotic War is one of the driving elements of Russia's expansionism and war in…
Even oppressed non-Russians made important contributions to war effort in WW2
A casual consumer of Russian propaganda outlets in advance of Moscow’s commemoration of Victory Day this year could…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 3: The way to European catastrophe
[box]There are those who have compared Western appeasement of Putin to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler prior to…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 2: Hitler’s Anschluss
[box]There are those who have compared Western appeasement of Putin to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler prior to…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 1: The interwar prelude
[box]There are those who have compared Western appeasement of Putin to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler prior to…
Top-6 Soviet World War II myths used by Russia today
[box]In the USSR, the myth of the Great Patriotic War was central to the identity of the Soviet…
Soviet myths about World War II and their role in contemporary Russian propaganda
[box]This article is from the proceedings of the conference Usage of the topic of WWII in the Russian…
Understanding the Ukrainians in WWII Part 3. Of German plans and German collaborators.
In World War II the number of Ukrainians who took up arms and fought for the allies (here…
Control over the past: Russia’s archival policy and Second World War myths
[box]This article is from the proceedings of the conference Usage of the topic of WWII in the Russian…
Understanding the Ukrainians in WWII. Part 2. Stories of Ukrainians in the Red Army
Ukrainians were a major presence in the Red Army from the beginning of September 1939 until the bitter…
Understanding the Ukrainians in WWII. Part 1
[box]The Ukrainians carried at least 40% of losses of the USSR in WWII. The Soviet historiographical concept of…
Memory of the Great Patriotic war in Russia’s expansionist policy
[box]This article is from the proceedings of the conference Usage of the topic of WWII in the Russian…
The “Great Patriotic War” as a weapon in the war against Ukraine
[box]This article is from the proceedings of the conference Usage of the topic of WWII in the Russian…