Abstract

In the past decade, Russia has emerged as a major player in the field of Holocaust memory. Holocaust discourse in contemporary Russia serves as an instrument of geopolitics, stressing collaboration in the Nazi mass murder of Jews in Eastern Europe on the one hand and amplifying the role of the Soviet Union in putting an end to the Nazi genocide on the other hand. This is yet another means of fashioning the (Soviet) victory over Hitler’s Germany as a central event in world history—a carbon copy of the discourse advanced in the former Soviet Union.

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