nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/9b4e2f6705bb0f2a DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240725s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/9b4e2f6705bb0f2a doi eng 342 23 Ametistova, Olga Author aut Never Again in Russia Ametistova, Olga Verfassungsblog 2024-07-25 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In the Soviet Union and later in Russia, reference to World War II played a central role in the decades after 1945. The “never again” narrative in Russia takes a very specific form: The focus is not on the Holocaust but on the Victory in the “Great Patriotic War” against fascism, the increase of power and status in the international system that this has brought, and the perpetuation of the present and timeless actuality of war in a mostly imperial and post-imperial context. The discourse on Victory against fascism undergoes a paradoxical development, from a way of commemorating collective trauma to the justification and glorification of new wars. CC BY-SA 4.0 Constitutional Law facism Russia Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/never-again-in-russia/ raw object