95 percent of Russians now say victory in 1945 was main event for Russia in the 20th century
Such views were more widely held among older Russians and less widely among younger ones, but, according to…
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Soviet soldiers who were shot by their own people recalled
Hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers did not take Berlin because they died in battle against the Germans,…
How Soviet troops destroyed downtown Kyiv and killed Kyivans in 1941
This 1941 photo documents a pile of ruins in the very center of Kyiv, which is now Maidan…
Moscow completely restores and promotes Stalinist conception of WW2, Pavlova says
The Putin regime not only has completely restored the Stalinist conception of World War II but is promoting…
Putin reaffirms Stalinist version of origins of World War II, Pavlova says
No issue is as sensitive in Russian society as World War II, a conflict Russians call “The Great…
Top-6 Soviet World War II myths used by Russia today
A new book published by the Institute of National Memory aims to bust Soviet-era myths about World War…
Russian media operates by law of war, tapping into Great Patriotic War myth
The Great Patriotic War was chosen as a central foundational myth by the leadership of the USSR. It…
Social videos on victory over Nazism unite generations in Ukraine
We Remember. We admire. We will prevail. Information Resistance group with the assistance from Ukrainian National Guard, National…
The “Great Patriotic War” as a weapon in the war against Ukraine
Walter Benjamin begins his “Theses on the Philosophy of History” with the description of a mechanical device. It…