“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 ... ... countries remains on what followed the war—namely, their own struggles for independence. For sub-Saharan African countries, Ethiopia’s experience became an important symbol of resistance to colonialism: it mounted fierce opposition to European powers,...