Victory Day in Central and Eastern Europe – a Triumph Not Worth Celebrating?

... celebrations by the country’s Ambassador accredited in Moscow”. Larisa Smirnova: World War II and Change of Generations: Trauma, Myth, and Memory The same argument was... ... collaboration with the Nazis was not confined to just a few hundred people and in the Czech Republic no large-scale resistance was seen until the last month of the war –... ... there was no complete purge after the war and only leading Nazi figures were executed. Poland differs from the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary in that it really suffered...