Overcoming Forgetfulness: How Central Asian Societies and Elites Perceive the Great Patriotic War

... [5] . Veterans are scarce in Central Asia because many are Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish, etc., and after the USSR collapsed they moved to Russia, Ukraine, Israel and other countries [6] . www.flickr.com/photos/zz77 World War Two veteran, Leninskoe, Kyrgyzstan As a result, today’s young society in Central Asia largely rejects Soviet ideological models, methods and practices, many of which are war-related. People under 30 are essentially ignorant because they grew up and studied in the post-Soviet ...