... regarding this day primarily as a tribute to the heroic generations of the Russians and the Chinese who shouldered the burdens of World War II and suffered the greatest losses. Joint events in Moscow and Beijing also testify to the cooperative endeavor made ... ... trenches and provided assistance to the wounded in hospitals.
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The Repentance Dilemma: Modern Japan and
WWII.
Сomments by Alexander Panov, and
Dmitry Streltsov.
Recipients include the daughters of Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Qu Qiubai ...
... own “national” history. This process has become particularly expansive in the Baltic countries: even the history of the Great Patriotic War is being fundamentally revised.
“Occupation” not liberation
Rewriting the history of World War II (and, accordingly, of the Great Patriotic War) began in the Baltic states before the Soviet Union’s collapse, when Mikhail Gorbachev's
Glasnost
reforms were underway. First, the Popular Fronts across these republics proposed an entirely ...
In 2015, Italy celebrates the 70th anniversary of its liberation from the Nazi occupiers and fascists. In April 1946, at the suggestion of Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi, Lieutenant General of the Realm Prince Umberto signed a decree declaring April 25 a national holiday – the Liberation Day of Italy. On that particular day in 1945, Sandro Pertini, a guerilla and future President, called on the Milanese to begin a general strike against the occupiers and fascists, who after the fall of the Mussolini...
... fact and for a long time refrained from accepting guilt and issuing an apology. It was only in 1995, 50 years after the end of WWII, that Socialist Prime Minister Maruyama made a statement to apologize to the Asian nations for colonial rule and aggression,... ... visit to see President Obama and address Congress.
Notably, former Prime Minister Kishi, Mr. Abe's grandfather, used to say that World War II was a sacrosanct experience and Japan had done nothing worth an apology. Quite a potent Japanese political school ...
... disgrace to Poland's diplomatic service" for the Polish Foreign Minister to insist on his interpretation of Russia's role in World War II and insinuate about the format for celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Victory Day by disputing the grounds for ... ... the participation of EU countries. Since the German navy attack on the Polish garrison is considered as the starting point for WWII, Mr. Komorowski suggested holding the pan-European end-of-war event there as well.
Mr. Schetyna considered
this proposal ...
The Treaty of Versailles set the stage for World War II
Interview
On June 28, 1914, the world was shattered by a shot that took the life of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and unleashed World War One. However, the assassination only provided a pretext for the future warring parties to take military ...
In the run-up to the 69th anniversary of the Great Victory, we interviewed Olga Malinova, PhD, Professor of Comparative Political Science at MGIMO-University about the place of the Great Patriotic War in the historical memory of generations.
What place does Russia’s victory in the Great Patriotic War hold in the historical memory of the older and young generations of the new, post-Soviet Russia?
Russia’s victory in the Great Patriotic War is the most significant vestige of our past that...
... extraordinary diversity of conflict because of cyberspace, precision weapons and spectacularly highly complex combat systems. While the World War II was a battle of motors, today we face a war of electronics. Accordingly, the intellectual component of command and ... ... of today is not so much the exchange of fire as the contest of intellects.
Modern warfare has shed the features of classical WWII-style fronts, when the sides were opposed each other in fortifications that needed to be penetrated. Today, the construction ...
... adopt appropriate federal laws to guarantee deliveries and services [4].
The Kursk Tank Battle of the Future
Photo: topwar.ru
Ukrainian modern Tank T 84 OPLOT, Kharkiv
Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau.
They designed T-34, the best tank of the WWII.
In the near future, such a tank battle seems unlikely, since wars to come will be smaller in scale and characterized by local and focal features, as well as by indirect action strategies.
But who has said that tanks are irrelevant? Who has said ...
... history but later became obsolete and required changes. Some agreements, due to facts of history, need updating today.
The end of World War II marked the beginning of a bipolarity that ended in 1991 with the disintegration of the USSR. In your opinion, how ... ... that we may want to consider and learn from.
I suggest you look at the successes our international relations achieved during WWII and after. What diplomats and the intelligence services did helped to bring the war to its end faster and with fewer casualties....
