Posts Tagged
Great Patriotic War

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  2017/05/18 - 01:08 • News

  Ukraine bans the St. George’s ribbon as a “symbol of Russian aggression”

  On 16 May 2017, Ukrainian lawmakers banned the St.George’s ribbon, a controversial emblem of the Second World War used in Russia which many Ukrainians see as a symbol of Russian aggression. The black-and-orange striped ribbon is a...

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  2017/05/11 - 06:22 • News

  Russia’s exported “Immortal Regiment” marches accused of being part of hybrid war...

  History of the “Immortal regiment” In 2012, Sergei Kolotovkin, Sergei Lapenkov, and Igor Dmitriev, Russian journalists from the TV-2 channel in Tomsk, gave birth to the initiative. The idea was to have regular Russian citizens...

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  2017/05/09 - 03:26 • History, Russia

  The Soviet foundations of Russia’s Great Patriotic War myth

  The myth of May 9 The largest myth of the Great Patriotic War is the concept that shifts its time boundaries and accentuates the Soviet-German military conflict of 1941-1945. The start of the war, 1939, when Germany and the USSR invaded...

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