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First published in Beda Media 09/08/2022
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Editor: Beda Media
Translator: Jeanna Kolesova
First published in Beda Media 09/08/2022
English
Russian
Editor: Beda Media
Translator: Jeanna Kolesova
“Public commemoration in the form of memorials and monuments; the aggressive patriotic upbringing of children and adolescents over the past 22 years; the cult of the power of the state; the cult of victory, in which Russia is presented as the liberator of the world and Europe, and the previous generations who died for their homeland are perceived as immortal: these are the factors that formed a war-oriented Russian identity.“
Kolesova traces the history of symbolic manipulations around the victory in World War II from the beginning of the Putin regime to the present day and asks: how did the sacralization of that war normalize the current one?
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