May 15, 2009
This past
weekend marked 64 years since the surrender of Nazi Germany and the
Allied victory in Europe in World War II. In the United States,
this date generally receives little notice except on the major
anniversaries. In Russia, however, Victory Day is the most
important public holiday, celebrated with much pomp and
circumstance. Yet as Contributing Editor Cathy Young notes, for any
country directly affected by WWII, the war holds a unique place in
its collective cultural and historical consciousness—a living past
that continues to influence the way we see the present.
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