Russia has a history of using its huge population to build a massive army that is able to overwhelm most enemies through sheer weight of numbers.
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Although tempting to make the comparison, Vladimir Putin’s recent military purge doesn’t appear to be a replay of Stalin’s infamous purge in 1937.
The 2024 D-day commemorations sent a message of European unity but missed the opportunity to acknowledge Ukraine’s contribution to the defeat of Nazism.
Why is there such a Russian focus on the Second World War? Because it’s used to justify authoritarian states, the rule of dictators like Putin and Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko.
Russia’s casualty count in Ukraine is high, but the country has a national mythology built on loss and sacrifice.
Interviews with Russian men found most no longer see military service as a marker of masculinity.
May 9 this year is “no victory day” as Putin has little to show after 74 days of aggression against Ukraine.
Over two days in September 1941, more than 33,000 Jews were murdered by Nazi forces and their Ukrainian collaborators in Babi Yar.
A scholar who studies Holocaust survivors sees an explanation for why women change their stories of sexual assault, even now in the
MeToo era.
There’s a widening split over rival interpretations of the end of the second world war and its aftermath.
Two big battles which turned the tide of World War II can tell us a great deal about some important present-day challenges.
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Reader, History, Glasgow Caledonian University
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