Věčný odkaz Velké vlastenecké? Politická instrumentalizace sovětského vítězství nad fašismem a její používání v Československu po roce 1968 a v současné České republice
Journal: Soudobé dějiny
Year: 2022

Theoretically grounded in memory studies, this article reconstructs how the official Soviet-Russian myth of the Great Patriotic War has been politically instrumentalized and abused to promote and legitimize the Kremlin&#8217;s power intentions. It examines the forms, mechanisms and actors of this systematically applied politics of history and memory. First in the context of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and the justification of the subsequent Soviet Army&#8217;s stay i