The 'new imperial history' as a metanarrative (03.06.2024)

Date
3 June 2024
Duration
20:24
Platform
YouTube

A street dialogue by Vitaliy Dribnytsya. The opening of the conversation contains a segment on the origins of the 9 May cult: why no Soviet Victory Day parades were held before 1965, how the holiday grew up in place of the lost 7 November, and why today’s Russia needs this myth. A source for the article on the cult of the “Great Victory” (the section on the construction of the holiday). The rest of the video concerns the “new imperial history” and other topics and is not used in the article.

Key moments

  1. 00:33 Victory Day parades were not held before 1965; the day was a regular working day
  2. 01:03 7 November was losing popularity — 9 May was introduced as a replacement under Brezhnev
  3. 08:51 Why Russia clings to 9 May: a myth for an unformed imperial nation + preparation for aggression

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