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The “Great Patriotic War” in the Politics of Memory in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine
In the late 1960s, the “Great Patriotic War of Soviet people against the German-Fascist invaders” virtually replaced the “Great October Socialist Revolution” as the founding myth of the Soviet Union. Since 1965, Victory Day – May 9 – has been an official public holiday. Also during that period, the Hero… Читати далі ⇢