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

... 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 ... ... 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....