Through the lens of the myth and remembrance of victory in World War II, arguably the central defining event of the Soviet epoch, the book shows that while state historical narratives reinforced a ...

Russia's ambassador to Germany, Sergei Nechayev, said Kellerhoff's idea was "beyond comprehension". "Attempts to rewrite immutable historical facts, falsify the events of those years, play down ...

Because today, Russia is attempting to portray its war on Ukraine as similar to its (revisionist) history of World War II. Russia has twisted the memory of a war fought for liberation to justify ...

Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Pact in Moscow ... President Vladimir Putin says Poland and its allies are distorting history. During a marathon news conference on 19 December, the Russian president ...

Post-WWII, tension between the USA and the Soviet Union led to a worldwide Cold War. Reasons for this included: ideological differences, problems in Germany, the arms race and the Korean War.

Brilev, a renowned Russian journalist and TV host also stressed that, despite not having participated militarily in World War II ... the USSR). “It is very important to preserve the historical ...

Maslinskaia, Svetlana 2024. New Eyewitnesses to the War: Time Travel in Russian Children’s Literature about Word War II. ILCEA, ...