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

... national biographies. China and the DPRK: The Great Victory Echoes of World War II. RIAC Special Project on how the memory of WWII influences politics and society in the world (In Russian) A triumphalist narrative of the Second World War has taken shape ... ... 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,...