Russia Should Rethink Victory Day
The country should reconsider how it marks the seventieth anniversary of the victory over Germany
World War II was a huge and unforgettable tragedy for the Soviet people. Yet the Germany of World War II no longer exists in its former configuration, and the tactical and strategic lessons of that war lost relevance long ago. The most appropriate way to characterize that conflict is as an enormous human tragedy. Victory Day would best be celebrated not by glorifying the state but by mourning the victims of War. Reprinted with kind permission from the Moscow Times.