Russia marks the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazism: What significance does it have in an epochof global confrontation? OSW Commentary No. 171, 20 May 2015
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2015

The Victory Day celebrations held in Russia on 9 May 2015 were special for marking the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II but the particular international and domestic context they were set in was of yet greater importance. The element which set the celebrations in 2015 apart from those in the preceding years was how the military and moral aspects of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany was made part of the current geopolitical confrontation with the West concerning the Ukrainian cris