First Victims of the Holocaust: Soviet-Jewish Prisoners of War in German Captivity

Полян, Павел

doi:10.1353/kri.2005.0057

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“…While these comments are antisemitic, their primary intent was to defend the Soviet narrative of the war against Holocaust in Western historical memory of the war. The scrutiny commentators apply to Jews in the war shows an unwillingness to differentiate the Soviet Jewish experience of World War II, shaped by the intention of the Nazis to complete a systematic genocide, from the broad Soviet experience of the war (Polian, 2005). This Soviet narrative stresses the magnitude of German crimes against the Soviet people as a whole, with the Russians as the most populous nation at the forefront (Brandenberger, 2002).…”

Section: Ia Pomniu and The Reproduction Of Soviet Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Remembering war, remaining Soviet: Digital commemoration of World War II in Putin’s Russia

Bernstein

2016

Memory Studies

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World War II held and retains a unique place in Soviet and post-Soviet historical memory. Scholars have generally studied the legacy of the war from the perspective of political and cultural elites. This article uses Russian digital commemoration to assess contemporary memory of World War II from a social perspective. A macroanalysis of I Remember, an interview and social networking site, and Pomnite Nas!, a site with user-contributed listings of war monuments, shows how popular memory of the war reiterates and updates Soviet historical narratives. Supported but not initiated by Vladimir Putin’s government, these sites show how state and society are interacting in Russia to produce and reproduce memory of the war. The article contributes both to methodological discussion of the internet as a source for memory studies and the fate of the Second World War in Russia.

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Section: Ia Pomniu and The Reproduction Of Soviet Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%