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

... such as pressing issue of collaboration under the occupation. www.flickr.com/photos/azwegers World War Two veteran, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, May 4, 2008 Unlike Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the Baltic states, Central Asia was not a theater of war.... ... Victory Day in a manner close to Russian both in content (military parade) and semantics (terminology, etc.). Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have renamed the celebration the Day of Remembrance and Mourning, while Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan adapted to the ...