“The Global Anti-Fascist War”: Memory of the Second World War in Non-Western Countries

... and society in the world (In Russian) A triumphalist narrative of the Second World War has taken shape in both China and the DPRK, where the defeat of Japanese militarism is presented as a watershed moment in national history and, unquestionably, a source ... ... the war itself was largely perceived as “someone else’s conflict.” Iran and Turkey: An Uncomfortable Past In Iran’s historical memory, the country’s involvement in the Second World War occupies an inherently ambiguous place. The war is viewed ...