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[/Elena Baraban/]

   I wish to comment on yesterday's messages.

   I find it strange that in North America, a discussion of what the  
Victory Day still means for people (most?/many? people) from the  
former USSR, immediately becomes an opportunity of framing these  
people's sentiments in terms of Stalinism or neo-Stalinism.

   Yesterday, many of my friends (people between 28-70 years old) who had left the Soviet Union or Russia long time ago or were born somewhere in outside Russia from parents of the post-1917 immigration got together, called each other or at east sent e-mails to mark the V-Day... What does Stalinism have to do with it? Maybe instead of labling war experience that makes sense to Russians (and non-Russians) of different generations as myth it's time we find a slightly different framework for discussing war narratives, old and new?

   I have no idea what's the source of the information posted below  
re: the Russians' complete unaware of the American and British  
participation in th war against Hitler... But I do remember watching a  
documentary that featured interviews with college students from US who  
were completely unaware of the Soviet contribution to the victory over  
fascism. One of these people even stated that the war was actually  
between US and the USSR...

   On V-E Day (8 May) a Candian radio station mentioned celebrations of V-E Day in Ottawa, London, Washington, and New York, and about the veterans...  And not a single word of how the Victory Day is celebrated in the former USSR... As if the Cold-war mentality is to stay here forever...

   Regards,

   Elena

   At Sun, 9 May 2010 17:13:39 -0400, Alina Israeli wrote:

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