“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 ... ... the war itself was largely perceived as “someone else’s conflict.” Iran and Turkey: An Uncomfortable Past In Iran’s historical memory, the country’s involvement in the Second World War occupies an inherently ambiguous place. The war is viewed ...