Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Shchupak. Memory of the Second World War and the current war (16.03.2024)

A lecture by historian Ihor Shchupak (director of the “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies; the “Historian Every Saturday” series) on the memory of the Second World War and the current war. Key points: the “Great Patriotic War” as a quasi-religion with dogmas (the myths of the 28 Panfilov men, of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya); ritual fetishes (the St. George ribbon, the “Immortal Regiment”) used for propaganda of a new war; and religious imagery (Stalin as Jesus, “victory frenzy”). A source for the article on the cult of the “Great Victory.”