Welcome to my next blogpost! This week’s social identity is that of a soldier returning home for the first time in the aftermath of the “Great Patriotic War”, also known as World War II. As with my other posts, I like to focus on specific identities. This helps form connections with history which remind me … Continue reading Homecoming
Category: Fourth Research Digest
Communism…From a Distance
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“Snipers came of age during World War II.” Snipers throughout the war became instruments of death. During World War I, snipers had been used to kill from a distance between trenches but had not quite been used to it’s full lethal potential with usage of increased optics and weaponry as well as deployed on a … Continue reading Communism…From a Distance →
The Soviet Victory in WWII
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Above is an image of Kiev during Operation Barbarossa World War proved to be the deadliest conflict in human history. With total war related deaths ranging from 70-85 million people, the war is still stained into the memories of many. Put simply, no country on Earth went unaffected in some way by this war. Nowhere … Continue reading The Soviet Victory in WWII →
Killing the Massacre
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Katyn Forest Massacre 1939. The Partition. Following the invasion of Poland and the start of World War II, Poland was partitioned between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union claimed it was freeing Ukrainian and Belorussian workers who were supposedly being oppressed by Polish rulers in order to legitimize its invasion of and … Continue reading Killing the Massacre →
Tsar spangled banner
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Russia has a long history of national anthems. In the times of the Imperial Russia, “The Prayer of the Russians” which was then morphed into “God Save the Tsar” was chosen as anthem (source and source). These anthems interestingly were modeled after British “God Save the King” and “Rule Britannia” as well as other anthems … Continue reading Tsar spangled banner
Cinema, Censorship, and TGPW
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Prior to the 1930s, literature and the arts were seen as facets of bourgeois society, accessible and understandable only to the upper echelons with little influence on the proletariat who seldom had the access or knowledge to identify with them. In August 1934, at The First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers socialist realism was deemed … Continue reading Cinema, Censorship, and TGPW
The Katyn Massacre
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A devastating massacre in the forest just outside of Smolensk was kept a secret for almost fifty years. The extent of the truth was not fully acknowledged until twenty years after that. What happened in the forest was among the first of the gruesome and senseless series of murders that took place during World War … Continue reading The Katyn Massacre →
