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2017/05/20 - 04:53 •
News
On 19 May 2017, Germany’s Green party initiated debates on the topic of Germany’s historical responsibility towards Ukraine. The party prepared a draft resolution in support of Ukraine which was submitted to the foreign...
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2017/05/17 - 09:49 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
For Russians, Victory Day is an ever more important date; but they act as if May 9 was the end of history and fail to see that the Soviet Army which first liberated Eastern Europe from the Nazis then became an occupying force for almost...
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2017/05/10 - 18:31 •
Analysis & Opinion, History, Ukraine
We don’t want to eliminate May 9; it will always be a day of remembrance and a moment to celebrate Victory Day over Nazism. The only thing that we’d like to do is move official celebrations and events to May 8. We have absolutely no...
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2017/05/10 - 11:24 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
“’The Victory Parade’ in Putin’s Russia is unique in its absurdity, one in which an imperial army presents itself as ‘defenders of the motherland,’ occupiers as liberators, and invaders as anti-fascists,” Aleksandr Khots...
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2017/05/09 - 03:26 •
History, Russia
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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2017/05/08 - 10:22 •
Archive
The Putin regime not only has completely restored the Stalinist conception of World War II but is promoting it in the media and the schools in ways that will make it ever more difficult for Russians to break out of that ideological...
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2017/05/07 - 11:26 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
A casual consumer of Russian propaganda outlets in advance of Moscow’s commemoration of Victory Day this year could be excused for thinking that the USSR defeated Hitler all on its own and that the Russian people were the only component...
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2017/04/22 - 11:05 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
No issue is as sensitive in Russian society as World War II, a conflict Russians call “The Great Fatherland War,” and consequently no shift in its interpretation by senior officials provides a better indication about the priorities and...
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2017/04/19 - 20:52 •
Analysis & Opinion, History
Read the previous parts: 1) The interwar prelude 2) Hitler’s Anschluss In the West, much sympathy existed with Hitler on the basis that the treaty of Versailles had treated Germany too harshly and the belief that Hitler was simply...
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2017/03/18 - 05:37 •
Analysis & Opinion, History
More than we think, Soviet propaganda has influenced the way in which many see World War II. This is perhaps most telling when discussions of its early period (1939—41) are raised. “Protective” invasion? In conventional...
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