The Soviet Union collapsed long ago; this date still unites us
I was born in 1957, twelve years following World War II, which is not a long time in the grand scheme of things. When I was a child, a ghostly echo of the Great War came back to us. We saw war veterans with no legs travelling on commuter trains between Moscow and the suburbs. We listened to wartime ...
Be that as it may, the personage of an aged relative
seems to grow in our memory
as we are told of a past time and society.
Maurice Halbwachs
“Historical Memory and Collective Memory”
1950
On May 9, 2015, Russia will hold celebrations ... ... the assistance from others. We should therefore respect the historic choices made back then and remember that the end of the World War II is the multinational achievement of all the countries and peoples of the coalition who each in their way contributed ...