Just two weeks (or a little more) I wrote about the role of Lenin in history and today's political discourse in Russia. For all the frivolity of my notes (which many readers took to my surprise too seriously), the main idea that I wanted to convey to the audience was that a place in history, and not in today's political struggle at all with historical figures. This applies to the figure of Stalin almost to the same degree than to the figure of Lenin.

The soldiers brought the victory 65 years of victory Kirill Anderson From the editorial office. May 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the most tragic historical event for Russia - the Great Patriotic War. According to the updated reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during the war years, the Soviet Union lost 26.5 million people. So we still suffer from what happened more than half a century ago.

In anticipation of the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in the post-Soviet space, the issues are increasingly discussing what role Russia and other union republics played in the achievement of victory. Of course, in its victims and contribution to the achievement of victory, Russia is in the first place simply because then it accounted for the vast majority of the population and the economic potential of the USSR.

From the editor. May 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the most tragic historical event for Russia – the Great Patriotic War. According to updated data from the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Soviet Union lost 26.5 million people during the war years. So we are still suffering from what happened more than half a century ago. Unfortunately, this truly great holiday, which should unite Russians, divides them.

In recent years, the celebration of the Great Victory over Nazi Germany has noticeably overshadowed an increasing discussion about the results of World War II. As a result, the very value of the victory, which still seemed not to be discussed, suddenly turned into a hypothesis, which requires constant excuses and explanations.

From the editorial office. May 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the most tragic historical event for Russia - the Great Patriotic War. According to the updated reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during the war years, the Soviet Union lost 26.5 million people. So we still suffer from what happened more than half a century ago. Unfortunately, this truly great holiday, which should unite Russians, disconnects them.

From the editorial office. May 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the most tragic historical event for Russia - the Great Patriotic War. According to the updated reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during the war years, the Soviet Union lost 26.5 million people. So we still suffer from what happened more than half a century ago. Unfortunately, this truly great holiday, which should unite Russians, disconnects them.

From the editor. May 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the most tragic historical event for Russia – the Great Patriotic War. According to updated data from the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Soviet Union lost 26.5 million people during the war years. So we are still suffering from what happened more than half a century ago. Unfortunately, this truly great holiday, which should unite Russians, divides them.

The reasons for the intensification of the debate about Stalin, about his role in the victory in the Great Patriotic War and the Stalinist repressions, probably, should be sought in the change of political format proposed from the beginning of the presidential term of Dmitry Medvedev. Two years ago, many had the feeling that “perestroika” is repeated, accordingly, people, politicians, experts, media, and so on, have become very many issues as they treated them 20 years ago.

From the editorial office. May 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the end of the most tragic historical event for Russia - the Great Patriotic War. According to the updated reports of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during the war years, the Soviet Union lost 26.5 million people. So we still suffer from what happened more than half a century ago. Unfortunately, this truly great holiday, which should unite Russians, disconnects them.

Patriarch Kirill raised Victory Day to a new level, giving him not only the theological, but also a liturgical justification. In recent months, the primary hierarch of the Russian Church has almost been pronouncing patriotic, anti -collaboration, scourging “Vlasovschina” and revisionism of the history of the Great Patriotic War of speech. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill called Victory Day a holy day (these words were spoken at a meeting with the public in Yekaterinburg ). Then, on the day of St.

From the editorial office. On the eve of Victory Day, Russian President Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev gave the newspaper Izvestia an extensive interview. The Russian Journal reprints this interview on its pages. * * * Izvestia: Dear Dmitry Anatolyevich! In previous years, they said: there is no family in the country that the war would not hurt. What trail of the Great Patriotic War left in your family? Dmitry Medvedev: You know, I think it was an absolutely accurate phrase.