Russia
TitleRussia
Call number940.53180922/0099
Object number08285i
Place of publicationHamburg, Germany
Year of publication
2010
Physical descriptionpp49-52
MaterialArticle
Series titleNeuengammer Studienhefte ; 03
NotesArticle from the Proceedings of an international conference held at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, 5 to 7 May 2010 pp49-52
Description
Remembrance of World War II in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia can be divided into 6 phases. Former concentration camp prisoners did not start to talk about their past until the collapse of the Soviet Union, and many former prisoners had spent their entire life concealing this from their families. Many people in the Soviet Union suffered and crimes against the country's own population were committed. The current policy and the patriotic education have resulted in racism and neo-Nazism in Russian society