“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” wrote Milan Kundera about the struggle against communism. After totalitarianism, this struggle is against selective forgetting. Official Russia today “remembers” the Soviet and Russian efforts to save the countries between Russia and Germany from foreign and domestic “fascism.” The Soviet Union expanded westward first in 1939 and 1940 to preempt Nazi occupation, goes the line, and then again in 1944–45 to liberate Europe from that occupation and from local fascists. Now Russia portrays itself as the historical “protector” of countries like Ukraine from the return of fascist, …read more
Source: The American Interest
