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

... textbook, which raises the need to keep the memory of the war alive within the population. On the eve of the 70-th anniversary of Victory Day, most post-Soviet countries held large celebrations culminating in the May 9 military parade in Moscow. All the Central Asian republics also hold celebratory and commemorative events, surviving Great Patriotic War participants and home-front workers receive allowances, service medals and gifts, many of them attend special meetings and concerts or travel to health ...