June 22

... Liberation and the Polish series Four Tank-Men and a Dog that was super-popular in the USSR at the time. My friends and I would “play war” outside (scenes that were probably... ... was nothing worse than having to be on the side of the “Nazis.” Larisa Smirnova: World War II and Change of Generations: Trauma, Myth, and Memory I remember when May... ... rather than Berlin. The Great Victory of 1945 is a valid reason to be proud for any Russian who has not lost their historical memory and their sense of national identity...