Memorial War in the Modern World: History and Theory

Abstract

2022 marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Caucasus, one of the fateful battles of the Great Patriotic War. The multinational Russian people are sensitive to the historical memory of their heroic ancestors, the great feat of the Soviet people who saved Europe and the whole world from fascist enslavement. This fully applies to the residents of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. However, today in the world the “cold” war and the détente of international tensions have been replaced by the “memorial” war. Historical reality and people’s memory are distorted, monuments to the dead are overthrown. Scientists engaged in the analysis of historical and legal problems need to do everything possible to defend historical truth and expose lies and distort the results of World War II. The authors, based on the analysis of normative and historical sources, focus on the problems of the so-called “memorial war”, the factors that determine the current state of our society, which needs to build up and modernize the system of patriotic educational work based on historical search. The article applies an interdisciplinary approach that allows using the methods of historical and historical-legal research, which is consistent with the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation dated November 10, 2017 №. 1093 on the approval of a new nomenclature of scientific specialties. This makes the issues raised in the article very relevant. The materials of the article can be used in the methodology of teaching historical disciplines, conducting educational work in educational institutions.