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Official memory politics, the ‘genocide of the soviet people,’ and the distortion of the Holocaust in modern Russia
Author(s): Pakhaliuk, Konstantin
Date: 2024
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Ukraine-Russia war (since 2014), Politics, Memory, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: This article is devoted to the political use of Holocaust memory in contemporary Russia. Under Putin, the Russian state has adopted an utilitarian approach. Initially, Holocaust was a tool for positioning Russia on the international stage (the Red Army as the savior of the Jews), and later as a means of exerting moral pressure on political elites in Eastern European countries that promoted the memory of communist crimes. In the context of the full-scale war against Ukraine, the newly articulated concept of the ‘genocide of the Soviet people’ serves both symbolic border with the West and tool to victimize Russians.