Victory Day: Imperishable Memory

... from secondary and tertiary sources. Another important aspect is that the legacy of the War has been politically leveraged for the entire 70 years after the victory, yet it has been used in various ways. The political aims and contexts have changed. Victory Day has always been celebrated, but in a different way in each era. Historically, the war memory cult came to its prime during Brezhnev’s years in power, and post-Soviet Russia inherited the practices and format of Victory Day celebrations ...