June 22

The Soviet Union collapsed long ago; this date still unites us I was born in 1957, twelve years following World War II, which is not a long time in the grand scheme of things. When I was a child, a ghostly echo of the Great War came ... ... countries around Russia, even if under different names. In Belarus, this is the Day of the Nationwide Memory of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War, while Ukraine marks the Day of Mourning and Commemoration of the Memory of the Victims of the War. The historians ...