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World War II is the major historical event of the last century that still resonates with Russians’ emotions due to the enormous sacrifice of the past generation and the main victory over Nazism it achieved. This article outlines the ways and steps made by the current political regime in Russia to appropriate War memory for its political purposes. It demonstrates how and for what reasons Putin’s propaganda went from the corrections of the war narrative to the retrenchment at the Soviet-time positions in the history wars with Russia’s neighbors, and lists the legislative measures restricting alternative visions of the history of the war. The article also analyses the negative impact of this historical politics on the Russian academia and society.
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